Exhibition: Carl David Ruttan: Torn Passages
January 6 to 23, 2010
Reception: January 9, 2010
A consummate traveler, Carl David Ruttan makes collages with graphic ephemera he finds along the way: Chinese cigarette cartons, Indian candy wrappers, torn bits of music posters from the street. Working in a rented room in Berlin, a youth hostel in Switzerland, on the beach in India, or his apartment in Montreal, Ruttan spreads out the fragments and brings the bits and pieces together in composition. When done, he slides the small 3.5”x2.5” collages into a plastic sleeve. Once home, Ruttan scans them, enlarges the image, and makes a print in edition of three. The final image presents a seamless photographic print that is akin to photomontage.
The exhibition explores Ruttan’s collage practice and the relationship between the small collages and large prints of them. The viewer will be able to compare the experience of the original collage and that of the large print, specifically, the change in intimacy and detail that is manufactured by the act of enlarging the smaller work.
Galerie Maison Kasini will exhibit ten prints and their original collages January 6th to January 23rd. A reception will take place on January 9th from 3PM to 5PM.
A catalogue of the work presented in this exhibition is available at Galerie Maison Kasini and online at Kasini House Artshop (www.kasinihouseartshop.com). Carl David Ruttan: Torn Passages is 32-pages and contains an essay by Ric Kasini Kadour, an interview with the artist, and ten images.
