Luanne Martineau
Lesley Johnstone, Dan Adler & Shirley Madill

Luanne Martineau’s hybrid felted wool sculptures blur the boundaries between high modernist art and craft. With cultural references ranging from R. Crumb to Modernist masters, Martineau engages in a long tradition of merging social satire with contemporary art and creates powerful confrontations between the attractive, the familiar and the grotesque. Martineau’s work was featured in the 2007 Montreal Biennial and in the recent How Soon Is Now exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In English and French.

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Connue pour son affinité avec les sources de la culture pop et de l'avant garde, Luanne Martineau s’approprie les arts textiles et revisite l’esthétique moderniste pour créer des œuvres imposantes qui accaparent l’espace et déstabilisent le spectateur par sa puissante force d’évocation du corps. Luanne Martineau a participé à l’édition 2007 de la Biennale de Montréal. Elle vit et travaille en Colombie-Britannique. En français et anglais.

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (02/2010) 64 pp 27 x 23 cm souple/softcover 978-2-551-23876-7 $24.95 Can. $26.95 U.S. (20 euros)

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Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque
Lisa Baldissera & Lee Henderson

An exploration of contemporary expressions of the Baroque through the works of Jake and Dinos Chapman and Luanne Martineau. Like the Baroque artists, they combine beauty, perversity, humour and horror to engage the audience with their elaborate executions. Martineau’s grotesque sculptures and drawings address social realism, racism and conceits of high modernism. Her influences span from Francisco Goya to R. Crumb. The Chapmans also challenge taboos through their "collaborations" with Goya, drawing on Georges Bataille's concept that representation is always a process of transformation and resignification.

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (08/2009) 96 pp col. ill. 10.5 x 8 in softcover 978-0-88885-351-6 $9.95 Can. $11.95 U.S. (7 euros)