Artists

Canada

Phillipe Blanchard
Rayuela

09.12.19 20.12.19

ARTIST STATEMENT

For the last ten years, I have dedicated the majority of my interdisciplinary creative activities to animation, installation, textile and printmaking. My conceptual focus has been to deepen my understandings of animation by endowing it with a spatial and experiential dimension, beyond the limits of the screen, through the use of media not usually associated with the moving image. By doing so, I aim to provide the viewer–who has become indifferent to their unceasing exposure to moving image media–with an unfamiliar experience of what constitutes an animated image.

After researching the historical origins of animation – a hybrid medium arising from the combination of magic lantern spectacles, illusionism and puppetry – I had the urge to recast animation in its original role, fundamentally marvelous and magical, based on illusion and the belief in a deeply uncanny experience.

Inspired from stage design techniques and theatre lighting, I developed installations (Time Tunnel, New Troglodytes, Structured Light) where I illuminate screen-printed images in red, green and blue with computer controlled LED stroboscopic lights. Recently, I have opened this body of work up to hand-dyed knit and tufted textile pieces, lending the work a newfound tactile and sculptural dimension.

Another body of work developed through the Nick Novak Fellowship at Open Studio in 2016, experiments with animating screen-prints installed in space through stop-motion animation, juxtaposing the repetition of the printed image to the repetition of the photographic image being played back in time, proposing a reflection on how time and space and represented through the encounter of two disciplines.

BIO
Philippe Blanchard
1974 | Canada.
Works and lives in Toronto, Canadá.

EDUCATION
2010 | MFA (Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design), OCAD University. Toronto, Canadá.
2005 | Diploma (Visual Effects for Film and Television), Seneca College. Toronto, Canadá.
1998 | BFA (Film Production), Concordia University. Montreal, Canadá.

Currently Chair of Integrated Media and Experimental Animation, and Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canadá.

Recent projects include a textile work at TextielLab (NL), and expanded animation installations at Atelier Circulaire (Montreal), Open Studio, TAIS, Ontario Place (Toronto), and Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury).

SELECTED EXHIBITION
Sinan Mansions (Shanghai); Festival Chromatic (Paris); Centro de Artes de Guanajuato, San Pedro Museo de Arte in Puebla, the National Museum of Print in Mexico City (Mexico); Glendon Gallery (Toronto), Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON), and ARPRIM (Montreal), all work featuring screen-printed imagery animated by computer-controlled coloured lighting.

Related Activities

Exhibitions

Hopscotch
Phillipe Blanchard

18.12.19 14.02.20

On Wednesday, December 18th, at the last aceNITE of the year, Philippe Blanchard presented Hopscotch, a project that uses screenprints to animate them from numerous photographs in exterior and interior spaces, and then he used them create a stop-motion.

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´aceNITE

Inhabiting fantasy
Artists in Dialogue

18.12.19

The formal opening of artists in residence DOROTHY YOON (South Korea) and PHILIPPE BLANCHARD (Canada) took place on the last ´aceNITE of 2019. As a closing event for the year 2019, we received an important audience composed mostly by artists, curators, writers and public.

At our house´s entrance hall, there was a work by Blanchard that consisted of a stop-motion film made from a large series of screen-printings during his residency at ´ace.  In the Poliglota room, Yoon´s installation and video projection titled “The eye of Borges” took us into the writer imagination and Yoon’s fantasy. Finally, Mariana Rodriguez Iglesias, as a guest curator, selected the work of an Argentine artist called Cecilia Soldano that was exhibited in the Transversal Space.

The three artists who presented their works in the last event of 2019 have something in common: fantasy. Dorothy Mi Yeon Yoon sublimates elements of her life and experiences lived through magic and mysticism; Philippe Blanchard plays with the appearance of geometric shapes in time and space as if a spell gave brought them to life; Cecilia Soldano manipulates, and at the same time represents, elements of the earth in a manner close to alchemy. The three exhibitions together made an interesting reflection about how to create fantasy in a conscious manner.

Guest curator
Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias (Argentina)
Artist
Cecilia Soldano (Argentina)
Proyect: Witch Stones

Proyecto´ace
Artist-in-Residence International Program

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International Airport

Ministro Pistarini- Ezeiza (EZE)
Buenos Aires
45' to 60' trip

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Aeroparque Jorge Newbery
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Olleros Station (4 blocks, 4')

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Mitre Line (either to Leon Suarez or Mitre)
Colegiales Station (1 block, 1')

The Latin America's Paris

Buenos Aires is Argentine Republic's capital city. With 15,000,000 inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities in Latin America and one of the 10 most populous urban centers in the world. Its cosmopolitan and urban character vibrates to the rhythm of a great cultural offer that includes monuments, churches, museums, art galleries, opera, music and theaters; squares, parks and gardens with old groves; characteristic neighborhoods; large shopping centers and fairs. Here we also find a very good lodging facilities, with accommodation ranging from hostels to five-star hotels of the main international chains. Buenos Aires also show off about its variety of restaurants with all the cuisines of the world, as well as to have cafes and flower kiosks on every corner.

A neighborhood founded on the Jesuit farms in the 17th century

We are located in Colegiales neighborhood where the tree-lined streets, some of which still have their original cobblestones, invite you to walk. Although the apartment buildings advance, low houses still predominate. It is a district of the city where about 20 TV production companies, design studios, artist workshops and the Rock&Pop radio have been located. The neighborhood also has six squares, one of which pays homage to Mafalda, the Flea Market, shops, restaurants and cafes like its neighboring Barrios de Palermo and Belgrano, with which it limits.

Proyecto´ace
Artist-in-Residence International Program

2024 Open Call #2
Residencies 2024

Deadline
April 30th, 2024

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