CANADIAN SCHOOL 20th c. "Katarina" Mix media... - Lot 86 - Iegor

CANADIAN SCHOOL 20th c. "Katarina" Mix media on cardboard Titled on the upper center Signature, dated and dedicated on the reverse: À mon ami Marc, 79-83, Vancouver-Montréal Provenance: Marc Paradis Estate 122x101.5cm - 48x40" Born in 1955 in Montreal, Marc Paradis studied theatre and visual arts. He has also participated to many training workshops from 1978 to 1990 with Josef Robakowsky, Bruno Bigoni, Grotowsky, Michael Kriegman and others. He co-directed Sheme-vidéo with Luc Bourdon in 1984 and Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look in 1985. He has also made video recordings of performances by artists such as Denis Lessard, John Mingolla and Yves Lalonde. His works has earned a degree of national and international recognition and been widely commented on by the critics. His works question love relationships between men, desire, fantasm, sexual representation, sometimes playing on the pornography borders. Marc Paradis' interest for video started in 1981, while he was doing a screen-test for Jean-François Garsi's movie La chambre blanche, he was then the assistant of the french director.