Hello, Baby

I'm back from my year-with-no-art hiatus, at least for 1 or 2 posts.

Fact is I couldn't resist attending the Biennale De Montreal 2007, and soon here
I'll propose a countdown of everything that was shown there, from my least favorite to favorite artist (all bias, as always).

The reason I'm doing this is that I thought the biennial had been badly covered (with exception of Sarah Milroy), with most articles mentioning the same names over and over in over-optimistic call-outs, and more often than not sounding like promotional PR. This is probably due to the fact everybody knew the crew behind CIAC had been having a hard time getting funds in recent years, with rumors heard here and there that the event could move out to Toronto, or in the worst of scenarios simply call it quits. God, are we really at this point?

In my usual manner of waiting after the shows to talk about them, so as to make sure only looney art fanatics would ever come across this post, I thought that the countdown format would force me to talk about the good, bad and ugly at the biennial without embarassing myself with the guilt of bending too much towards this or that aspect, or making the mistake of only naming the same names as everyone else.

I should have a few entries ready before the end of the week, then I'll edit
the post back with the new ones.

But you all want to know first: Was it a good show?
Yes and know, that's the point. It was really the middle of the road.
I heard people who embraced this edition as the best yet, others who were telling me it was all crappy undergraduate stuff. It was neither, but maybe somewhere in between. More soon.


Cheers,

Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com