StÉphane Gilot

Cineplastic Station

April 6 - May 5, 2007 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
A co-presentation with the Images Festival 2007

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Montreal-based artist Stéphane Gilot mounts a video installation based on models with video screen insertions.  Cineplastic Station is part of a new series that stems from the idea of modelisation and filmic architecture. Within Video Game (Images Festival 2005 and Transmediale 2006) the screen acted as truquage (a low tech special effect) as the viewer was immersed in the pseudo-artificial world of the video. With Cineplastic Station there is no such immersion as various small-scale models for eventual architectural installations inhabit the space. The 1:1 scale of previous Escape Plans projects would not be sufficient here as entire worlds are summoned and new fictions explored.

A native of Liege, Belgium, Stéphane Gilot has lived and worked in Montréal since 1996. He holds an M.A. in visual and media arts from Université du Québec à Montréal. His architectural installations and video performances have been shown in Canada, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Serbia-Montenegro. Notable solo exhibitions include Temps Libre, presented in 2007 at Expression, in St-Hyacinthe; La Station, presented in 2006 at Oboro, in Montréal; Videogame, at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, in 2005; and Libre arbitre, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001. He has also taken part in over twenty group shows, and was recently part of the show Smile Machine curated by Anne-Marie Duguet for Transmediale 06 in Berlin. He has an upcoming solo show at the Blackwood Gallery,  Mississauga in March 2008.  He is represented in Canada by Paul Petro Contemporary Art and in Europe by Espace 251 Nord (Liege).


Cineplastic Station  2006-07  video stills