Guillaume Morissette’s I Am My Own Betrayal, published by Maison Kasini, is a finalist for an Expozine Alternative Press Award.

Winners will be announced at the Expozine Awards Gala on Sunday, April 7, 2013, 8PM, at Le Divan Orange, 4234 Saint-Laurent (métro Mont-Royal). Admission is free and open to the public. Montreal’s fantastic rappeuse Donzelle will be the MC for the evening, which will feature readings from some of the nominated authors. The event is a rare chance to meet and mingle with the most talented up-and-comers of Montreal’s vibrant small press community!

About I Am My Own Betrayal by Guillaume Morissette
I Am My Own Betrayal is a bizarrely comic, profoundly modern, honest, sad, surprising collection of stories and poems. It explores subjects such as anxiety, email relationships, owl people, awkwardness, social networks, humiliations, shortcomings, groundhogs, terrible personal decisions, videogames, coping, girly arms and cat seizures. I Am My Own Betrayal is Guillaume Morissette’s debut collection of stories and poems. His writing has appeared both online and in print, in publications like Maisonneuve Magazine, carte-blanche, Metazen, Papirmasse, The Void Magazine, Lemonhoud and Poetry’s Own. He is a contributor to HTMLGiant, the internet literature magazine blog of the future. He lives in Montreal, where he studies creative writing at Concordia University.

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About Expozine Alternative Press Awards
At the Expozine Small Press Fair, the organizing team asks exhibitors to submit a copy of their best new publication for consideration for the Expozine Alternative Press Awards. A panel of six judges from the Montreal small press milieu selects six finalists and one winner in each of three categories: best book, best zine and best comic, in English and French. The Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts de Montréal, SODEC, Drawn and Quarterly and Le Port de Tête, 262 Mont-Royal E.

About Maison Kasini Books
Maison Kasini publishes folios of artwork, books on contemporary art and culture, and catalogs of art as a means of diffusing work and reaching a broader audience. Since 2006, Maison Kasini has published over twenty-five titles, sometimes in partnership with its U.S.-based sister company, Kasini House. In 2011, Maison Kasini started Ribbon Pig, an imprint of Maison Kasini Books, that publishes booklets and pamphlets of contemporary writing. The project’s website, www.ribbonpig.ca, presents interviews with contributors as well as other pieces of writing. Ribbon Pig explores ideas about contemporary culture, draws connections between literature and art, and promotes the idea that you are what you read. Its goal is to build a community of people who would enjoy these objects and share our interests.

March-April 2013

Small Is Beautiful at Galerie Maison Kasini.

We are offering small work in prints, books, multiples, editions, ceramics, collage, painting, and more. These works are easy to buy, easy to transport, easy to display, and easy to give.

Among the artists represented: Alex Costantino, Carl Ruttan, Katie Dyer, Ribbon Pig, Fresh Number, Ric Kasini Kadour, Sophie Eisner, Anteism, Maison Kasini Books, Alice Jarry, Px(c), Matt Hovey, Denise Surprenant, Janet Van Fleet, David Horwitz, Ashley Roark, and sound art from around the world.

Also, please note our new hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-5:3oPM and by appointment.

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ISSUE THREE

Fragments & Ideas?

CONTENTS: On the front cover we feature a work by Jacob Whibley and on the back cover a collage by David King. | Editor Benoit Depelteau explores fragments & ideas in collage. | We relay some NEWS & NOTES from the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; the Photographers’ Gallery in London; Kurt Schwitters at the Tate Britain; the collage artist shortlisted for the Sobey Award; the Thompson Gallery; New Orleans Museum of Art & the Art Gallery of York University. | We take the unusual road to Laura Stanziola’s Uncanny collage speciality shop. | Billy Mavreas explores the fields of textures & plans of resonance of Toronto-based Jacob Whibley. | Cory W. Peeke sits down and talks about the macro and the micro with David King. | Ric Kasini Kadour explores collage’s role in the darker side of Pop Art at the Whitney Museum in New York. | Benoit Depelteau reviews the book, Modern Vintage: Illustration by Martin Dawber. | Paul Bright reviews Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey at Reynolda House Museum of Art in Winston Salem, North Carolina. | Claudia Eve Beauchesne reviews Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop at The Modern Museum of Art in New York. | We go in the studio with Marian Williams. | Portfolios from collage artists: Manfred Gipper and Hagen Klennert, Berlin, Germany; Joshua Stringer, Salem, Oregon, USA; Chris Foster, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Alex Daw, London, England; Gordon Magnin, Los Angeles, California. | and the latest Cut-Out Page.

The Wildest Ponies on the Range

Exhibition
November 14th to December 22nd, 2012

Reception
Thursday, December 13, 7-9PM

“The Wildest Ponies on the Range” is an exhibition of thirty-six collages by Jp King and Billy Mavreas. The two artists collaborated on each of the collages in 2010.

“JP King and I met in the back workshop space of Monastiraki and laid waste to several vintage Life magazines from the stores collection,” said Billy Mavreas. “I knew of his interest in collage and he knew of my vast collection of vintage ephemera, so a collaboration was a somewhat natural occurrence. We would cut and paste and leave our work in the center of the table to rifle through, adding, sometimes subtracting. It was a very casual process, we got to know each other better, shared a drink and a joke and accumulated some fine work.”

In addition to the exhibition, Maison Kasini is publishing a book of all thirty-six collages with an essay by Ric Kasini Kadour.

About Jp King

Book Launch:
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 7-9PM

Maison Kasini is pleased to announce the publication of The North Yorker by Alain Mercieca.

The North Yorker is a collection of short stories about Ontario, highways, Montreal, the suburbs, shitty Canadiana and how to embrace it all. An attempt to bridge humour writing with poetry, and to bring Canadian culture to the fore without the wheat fields and the boring incest, because in the end we’re all stuck in the shopping mall.

“Stellar content… The North Yorker is seemingly the product of a hyperactive imagination run amok, and there’s enough crazed, vaguely psychotic creativity here to fill Centrepoint Mall…For reals… this is some messed up shit. Daddy likes!”

-Cameron Gordon, Broken Pencil magazine

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Reviews of other Mercieca works:

“Punk transcendence”

-Jim Burke, Funhouse Theatre

“Unpolished brilliance”

-Gaetan Charlebois, The Charlebois Post

“Mercieca is in search of that beautiful ugly truth”

-Neil Boyce

“Alain Mercieca is the Chekov of St. Henri.”

-Byron Toben in The Charlebois Post

Two of the stories in The North Yorker, “Hockey” and “Soup for the Feet”, were shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in 2005. “Condo Dwellers” was previously published in Broken Pencil.

About Alain Mercieca

Alain Mercieca is a writer living in St. Henri, Montreal.  His plays DéPFLIES and CAFé CAFé have garnered acclaim at Theatre 314 and now at Theatre Sainte-Catherine where he is currently the playwright in residence.

(author photo by David Simard)

BOOK DETAILS

The North Yorker | 5.5″ x 8.5″ | Paperback, Perfect | 86 pages | Maison Kasini Books | 2012

ISBN: 978-1-927587-10-2
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Price: $14.95

The North Yorker by Alain Mercieca
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America the Beautiful: Paedra Peter Bramhall

Exhibition
September 26-November 3, 2012

Vernissage
Saturday, October 6, 3-5PM

In “America the Beautiful,” transgendered artist Paedra Peter Bramhall delivers a powerful series of paintings that feature various nude figures in tumultuous positions in a small room wall-papered with the American flag. The effect is a meditation on post-9/11 America, a place that can be liberating yet claustrophobic; free yet judgemental; and, like the figures in the paintings, pornographic yet sacred. Each of the twenty-two paintings are rendered in sumi, acrylic, and india inks on a heavy rag vellum paper.

About Paedra Peter Bramhall

Paedra Peter Bramhall lives and works in Bridgewater Corners, in Central Vermont. A native Vermonter, Paedra still owns the cabin in which she was born. Paedra has been supporting herself as an artist since 1970, after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in sculpture and a minor in ceramics. After spending over 35 years creating blown art glass, Paedra had her first solo exhibition of paintings in 2007. Paedra paints in inks and has worked in cast and fabricated bronze, glass, steel, wood, clay for sculpture. Now, Paedra says, “I make art with my mind using… the computer, which allows me to create at nearly the speed my mind works.”

Guillaume Morissette, the author of I Am My Own Betrayal, published by Maison Kasini (available at Kasini House Artshop), is one of the featured authors at Pivot Readings at the Press Club in Toronto on October 3rd, 2012. Topics explored include anxiety, email relationships, owl people, awkwardness, videogames, Facebook, shortcomings, groundhogs and terrible personal decisions. His writing has appeared in Maisonneuve Magazine, carte-blanche, Metazen, HTMLGiant and many other publications.

Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney

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Pivot Readings at the Press Club 
featuring authors Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Aga Maksimowska, Guillaume Morissette, and Patrick Warner
850 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1V5
www.pivotreadings.ca
 

Hello From Vermont

Exhibition
August 8 to September 22, 2012

Closing Reception
September 22, 3-5PM

“Hello From Vermont” is an exhibition and publishing project that explores contemporary Vermont art. Through exhibition and publication, the project seeks to rekindle a sense of regionalism and awareness of a community of artmaking that defines the tradition of Vermont Art.

The exhibition in Montreal features the work of eight contemporary Vermont artists.

Cody James Brgant
Burlington, Vermont
photography
Brgant uses photography and sculpture to create a commentary on the translation of the actual to the replica.

Leigh Ann Rooney
South Burlington, Vermont
painting
Rooney paints nude self-portraits to create images that are engaging, empowering, and leave the viewer slightly vulnerable.

Mark Lorah
Middlesex, Vermont
collage
Lorah’s collages are concerned with the symbiotic relationship between order and chaos and employ processes which implement structure while provoking the mutation, violation, and evolution of these same processes and structures.

Jason Galligan-Baldwin
Calais, Vermont
collage
Galligan-Baldwin’s collage-paintings explore childhood memory using old paper ephemera: comic books, childhood drawings of astronauts, report cards, and poorly-received term papers.

Jessa Gilbert
Winooski, Vermont
painting
Gilbert’s paintings use color, shape, and line to create a rhythm within each piece that emphasizes change and action.

Amanda Vella
Colchester, Vermont
painting
Vella’s paintings use light, color, and texture to translate visual sensations into an image.

Kylie Dally
Burlington, Vermont
photography
Dally uses a wall space in her studio to create a backdrop of artificial chaos made up of painting and collage. She then photographs details of the wall as a means of framing the chaos. Her work is informed by Elizabeth Grosz who writes, “Art is an intensification of experience resulting from the framing of chaos.”

Marc Awodey
Burlington, Vermont
painting
Anne Galloway describes Awodey’s paintings, “His dramatic, haunting paintings…are a study in alienation, disconnection and melancholy. He creates landscapes that are like no place you’ve ever seen; they more aptly picture the way you’ve felt in a particular place.”

also work by
Alex Costantino
Janet Van Fleet
Ashley Roark
Katie Dyer

Saturday, September 22, 3-5PM

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“Hello From Vermont” is an exhibition and publishing project that explores contemporary Vermont art. Through exhibition and publication, the project seeks to rekindle a sense of regionalism and awareness of a community of artmaking that defines the tradition of Vermont Art.

The exhibition in Montreal features the work of eight contemporary Vermont artists.

Cody James Brgant
Burlington, Vermont
photography
Brgant uses photography and sculpture to create a commentary on the translation of the actual to the replica.

Leigh Ann Rooney
South Burlington, Vermont
painting
Rooney paints nude self-portraits to create images that are engaging, empowering, and leave the viewer slightly vulnerable.

Mark Lorah
Middlesex, Vermont
collage
Lorah’s collages are concerned with the symbiotic relationship between order and chaos and employ processes which implement structure while provoking the mutation, violation, and evolution of these same processes and structures.

Jason Galligan-Baldwin
Calais, Vermont
collage
Galligan-Baldwin’s collage-paintings explore childhood memory using old paper ephemera: comic books, childhood drawings of astronauts, report cards, and poorly-received term papers.

Jessa Gilbert
Winooski, Vermont
painting
Gilbert’s paintings use color, shape, and line to create a rhythm within each piece that emphasizes change and action.

Amanda Vella
Colchester, Vermont
painting
Vella’s paintings use light, color, and texture to translate visual sensations into an image.

Kylie Dally
Burlington, Vermont
photography
Dally uses a wall space in her studio to create a backdrop of artificial chaos made up of painting and collage. She then photographs details of the wall as a means of framing the chaos. Her work is informed by Elizabeth Grosz who writes, “Art is an intensification of experience resulting from the framing of chaos.”

Marc Awodey
Burlington, Vermont
painting
Anne Galloway describes Awodey’s paintings, “His dramatic, haunting paintings…are a study in alienation, disconnection and melancholy. He creates landscapes that are like no place you’ve ever seen; they more aptly picture the way you’ve felt in a particular place.”

also work by
Alex Costantino
Janet Van Fleet
Ashley Roark
Katie Dyer

Maison Kasini is pleased to announce the publication of I Am My Own Betrayal by Guillaume Morissette. A book launch will be held on Thursday, May 24th 7-9PM at Galerie Maison Kasini.

I Am My Own Betrayal is a bizarrely comic, profoundly modern, honest, sad, surprising collection of stories and poems. It explores subjects such as anxiety, email relationships, owl people, awkwardness, social networks, humiliations, shortcomings, groundhogs, terrible personal decisions, videogames, coping, girly arms and cat seizures.

A highly imaginative and refreshing literary debut.

‘One of our favorite writers,’
-Kirsten McCrea, Papirmasse

‘A unique voice, with striking details,’
-Josip Novakovich, author of Three Deaths

‘Depressingly hopeful, like looking at yourself naked in the mirror,’
-Lizy Mostowski, Soliloquies

About Guillaume Morissette

I Am My Own Betrayal is Guillaume Morissette’s debut collection of stories and poems. His writing has appeared both online and in print, in publications like Maisonneuve Magazine, carte-blanche, Metazen, Papirmasse, The Void Magazine, Lemonhoud and Poetry’s Own. He is a contributor to HTMLGiant, the internet literature magazine blog of the future. He lives in Montreal where he studies creative writing at Concordia University and served as the editor of Ribbon Pig in 2012.

DETAILS: I Am My Own Betrayal | 5.5″ x 8.5″ | Paperback, Perfect | 102 pages | Maison Kasini Books | 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9878094-9-0
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Price: $14.95

I Am My Own Betrayal by Guillaume Morissette
published by Maison Kasini Books

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