This book brings together under one cover two different exhibitions of the work of acclaimed Montreal artist Pascal Grandmaison: Le grand jour, curated by Diana Nemiroff and presented at Carleton University Art Gallery; and Double Take, curated by Sara Knelman and presented at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Grandmaison's interest in contemporary culture, previously evident in enigmatic photographs and videos of his peers, now finds expression in an investigation into the forms and technologies of the contemporary urban environment. In their essays, Nemiroff and Knelman investigate Grandmaison's diverse new photographic series and video installations presented in their respective exhibitions - works linked by the artist's explorations of light, time, and space. Grandmaison opens up for our contemplation fundamental elements of cinematic and photographic representation - close-ups and reversals, inversions and mirror images - which both trouble and delight the eye and the mind. The impressive bilingual catalogue was recognized with a grand prize in the category of exhibition catalogue design at Concours Grafika 2010, a professional juried competition for design in the province of Québec. Catalogue design by Uniform.

Diana Nemiroff is a Canadian curator and art historian in the field of contemporary art. She holds an MA in art history from Concordia University where she was awarded the Alfred E. Pinsky Medal for the highest-ranking graduating student in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2012, she was the recipient of a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Nemiroff has held positions as director of Carleton University Art Gallery, senior curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and also held assistant and associate curator positions with the Gallery. She has numerous exhibitions to her credit, including the ground-breaking Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (1992), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (co-curated with Robert Houle and Charlotte Townsend-Gault), which was the National Gallery's first major exhibition featuring the accomplishments of a new generation of Aboriginal artists; Crossings / Traversées (1998), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Melvin Charney and Kzrysztof Wodiczko (1986) for the 42nd Venice Biennale.

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