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Article in METROLAND EAST NEWSPAPER
Helene Lacelle
Submitted/Peter Evanchuck
Helene
Lacelle carries one of her works into Café Nostalgica, at 601
Cumberland St. Her exhibit with Peter Evanchuck runs until the end of
February
.
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Two Sandy Hill artists are inviting art lovers to engage in their world of “marvelous realism” this February.
Peter
Evanchuck and Helene Lacelle have launched a new exhibit at Café
Nostalgica – called Marvelous Realism Canada – which combines
photography and other mediums.
The
couple’s work draws from magical realism, a literary and artistic style
that portrays fantastical things happening in the real world.
“Basically
it’s the ability to get the audience to feel what we felt when we were
on location and when we were shooting the photographs,” Evanchuck said.
“We didn’t feel the photos themselves would reveal that feeling alone.”
Most
of the work in the exhibit centres on abandoned houses in New Brunswick
the couple stumbled upon while driving to their cottage in the
Maritimes.
Some of the homes had been deserted for decades, but one had been abandoned as recently as five years ago.
The
two explored these buildings and discovered all sorts of belongings
that had been left behind. They were particularly struck with some dolls
that they included on a number of the images in the exhibit.
Evanchuck
photographed the homes and Lacelle then used paint, software and other
mediums to alter them in an attempt to evoke a certain emotion they were
feeling at the time.
“These images convey how we felt about those abandoned houses,” Evanchuk said.
“Those
dolls are waiting for the little girls that left them behind. It
creates that feeling of marvel and also a tragic sense of loss for when
these people had to abandon their homes.”
The couple said altering the images was necessary to convey the deep feelings of abandonment and sense of marvel.
The exhibit is set to run at 601 Cumberland St. until the end of February.
HELENE LACELLE's NEW ART SHOW - Cafe Nostalgica
theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS installation
theOLD are examples of her art over past decade
theNEW are very recent collage pieces of framed art
theMARVELOUS are photoART created with partner PeterEvanchuck
taking original Evanchuck photos of abandoned NB homes adding styles and content to make them 'MARVELOUS'
HELENE installing new collage art at CAFE NOSTALGICA
prolific artist HELENE LACELLE created
over a dozen new pieces of art
for this Nostalgica show
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| Helene Lacelle lining-up her NEW work at Cafe Nostalgica |
Monday, February 1, 2016
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