Gabriel Dubois (th)

เกิด:

1981

ถิ่นที่อยู่:

Leipzig, Germany

สัญชาติ:

Canadian

กองทุน:

APT Berlin

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Uniquely straddling the doctrines of street art, postmodernism and arte povera, Gabriel Dubois’ practice is borne out of an innate desire to express and inscribe his heterogeneous life experiences through the formal language of abstraction.

In its earliest form, Dubois expressed this through painting the carriages of Canadian

freight trains, creating mobile public displays of his work across his native country. Time

spent as a house painter furnished his artistic vocabulary with an acutely measured

brushstroke now synonymous with his practice from Berlin to Sri Lanka, wherever the

artist has been based.

Dubois’ work channels his nomadic existence through an equilibrium of signifiers and

symbols; energetically painted geometric forms are punctuated by collaged magazine and

flea market imagery, synthesizing the chaos and detritus of urban life, and its indifference

to cultural specificity. High art, religious symbols, graffiti scrawls and everyday media

merge, forming an absorbing abstract picture plane.

In a parallel practice similarly employing found materials, Dubois creates wooden

shelter-like structures, reminiscent of the hippy colonies built by US draft dodgers during

the Vietnam era on the islands off the Vancouver Coast. Regardless of where he finds

himself, Dubois has continued to create these shelters as temporary studios, places of

refuge, and formal counterpoints to his painted abstract compositions.

Dubois was born in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, 198. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. He studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Fine Arts (2001-2003), Vancouver, Canada.

His Solo Exhibitions include: 'The Weather Report', Edel Assanti Gallery, London, England (2013); 'Infinity Broadcast', Galerie Kub, Leipzig, Germany; 'Betriebs Ausflug Hamburg-Leipzig'; 'Kayseri Manti', London Art Fair, Solo Booth Courtesy of Edel Assanti Gallery (2012). 'Instant Harmonica', Edel Assanti Gallery, London, England (2011). 'KYKKELIKI', Stolen Space Gallery, London, England and 'Erupto', Galerie Kamila Regent, Saignon, France (2010). 'Horn OK Please', Raum 21, Hamburg, Germany
(2009). 'Market Superannuated', Glanzkinder Gallery, Colonge, Germany; 'Superannuated Symbiotics', SKAM, Hamburg, Germany; ‘Schnittchens’, Mono Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2008). ‘Better Than Ever Before’, Vicious Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2007). 'Escape Routes’, Les Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2006).

Select group exhibitions include: 'Against A Rugged Coast' with Gary Lee Nova, Sarah Gee, Jeff Depner,Reg Holmes, Joan Balzar, and Ron Stoiner. Trench Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2013); 'No Place Like Home', with Sandra Lange, Robert Motherwell, Joan Miro,and many more. Notare An Der Palmaille, Hamburg, Germany (2012); 'Lobster Claw Buffet' with Ki Yoon Ko and Igor Maier, Stroke Art Fair, Berlin, Germany (2012); 'City Doping Festival', Warsaw, Poland (2012); 'Synthetic Real' Edel Assanti Gallery, London, England; 'Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s', Barbican Art Gallery, London, England; 'Ritual', Causey Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA; 'Edel Assanti Anniversary Show, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, England (2011).

For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art

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