{"product_id":"charles-gagnon-the-colour-of-time-the-sound-of-space-9781773272344","title":"Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eA personal and intimate perspective on one of Canada's most prominent 20th century multidisciplinary artists, who was once described as \"abstraction's poet-philosopher.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Gagnon (1934-2003) was a painter, photographer and filmmaker considered by many to be an important figure in Quebec and Canadian art in the 20th century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis early career emerged alongside the American Abstract Expressionists and his growing multidisciplinary practice broke away from the singularity of painting shared by his Montreal contemporaries of the Automatistes and the Plasticiens. The complexity and depth of his work as a painter, photographer, and filmmaker was distinguished by a probing, introspective quality. His paintings were simultaneously rigid and free-flowing, with self-imposed rules and structure contrasted by rich fracture and gestural brush work. Across all disciplines he played with multiple levels of perception, and many works evoke the liminal space of the threshold, or multi-plane spaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCharles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space\u003c\/i\u003e, this long-standing multidisciplinary work is brought into full view with texts that explore Gagnon's various practices, from painting to photography to film. An English-language essay by art historian and curator Roald Nasgaard chronicles Gagnon's artistic evolution from his early years in New York in the 1950s to his final productive years in the late 1990s in Quebec, and situates him within an expanded international historical context of artists, artworks, and art movements. Filmmaker and professor Olivier Asselin's French-language essay engages Gagnon's use of different media, including the role of sound and music in his artworks. Michiko Yajima Gagnon, the wife of the late artist, gives insight into the inseparability of everyday life and Charles's creative undertakings: his friendships with other artists (Tōru Takemitsu, Lee Friedlander), travel (to New York, Japan, and, particularly, the American Southwest), and the relationship between the landscapes surrounding his studios and his artwork. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing more than 250 art reproductions and archival images, \u003ci\u003eCharles Gagnon\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate portrait of an artist and the celebration of a life's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNasgaard, Roald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoald Nasgaard\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher, writer, and curator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eAbstract Painting in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). His major exhibitions and accompanying books include \u003ci\u003eThe Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940\u003c\/i\u003e (1984); the first Gerhard Richter retrospective in North America (1988); \u003ci\u003eThe Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); and \u003ci\u003eThe Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955-1970\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). More recently he co-curated \u003ci\u003eMystical Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Mus?e d'Orsay in Paris and \u003ci\u003eHigher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsselin, Olivier:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlivier Asselin\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of film and media arts at the Universit? de Montr?al. He is the co-editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Visualities\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Age\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eMenlo Park 3: Machines uchroniques\u003c\/i\u003e (Universit? Laval, 2014), \u003ci\u003eEspaces de savoir\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eDispositifs immersifs monumentaux et collectifs\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). Asselin has also contributed to two retrospective exhibition catalogues of Charles Gagnon's work, the first in 1998 for the Mus?e national des beaux-arts du Qu?bec and the second in 2001 for the Mus?e d'art contemporain de Montr?al. He also published a book on Gagnon's photography with Montreal's Dazibao art centre in 2006. Asselin has written and directed several films and designed a number of augmented-reality experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYajima Gagnon, Michiko:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichiko Yajima Gagnon\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tokyo, Japan, studied in New York, and lives in Montreal and Ayer's Cliff, Quebec. She was the owner and director of Yajima Galerie, Montreal, from 1974 to 1985, one of the first Canadian commercial galleries to feature contemporary Canadian photographers and artists. She curated the group exhibition \u003ci\u003eElementae Naturae\u003c\/i\u003e at the Mus?e d'art contemporain de Montr?al in 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Figure 1 Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276589596946,"sku":"9781773272344","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9df6474-2541-457e-ab3d-47f3a9fe9e7c.jpg?v=1747132251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/charles-gagnon-the-colour-of-time-the-sound-of-space-9781773272344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}