28 - Wednesday, September 25, 1991 - North Shore News

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Fresh Art show combines the
work of four young artists

FRESH ART, Four New Gallery
Artists at Catriona Jefiries Fine
Art Gallery, Third Floer, 556
Burrard St., Sept. 12-24.
Tuesday-Saturday: 10-6.

Archie Graham
ART REVIEW

HE BUZZWORD in
the current art scene
“deconstruction.”
lf you dare to utter it in conver-
sation with art gallery enthusiasts
you are likely to make instant
triends all nodding their heads in
agreement like pundits sharing a
secret. If you don’t happen to

know what it means, don’t worry.

Your new-found friends probably
don’t know either.

But the term, coined by French
philosopher, Jacques Derrida,
refers to a method of analysis that
seeks to identify and disassemble
the foundational concepts of any
given system of thought and
perception,

According to this point of view,
texts like Shakespeare’s Macbeth
and images like Leonardo da Vin-
ci’s Mona Lisa, have no objective
meaning. They acquire relative
significance from a system of
communication established by an

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

RICH NEILSON’S “‘Switzer’’ (56"' x 38’’) is part of the Fresh Art exhibit.

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always bears on the
confidence given the
critical, critico-
theoretical, that is to
say, deciding
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- Jacques Derrida, 1967

identifiable chain of historic
events.

If this sounds like a jot to
swallow, it is. Many contemporary
artists are choking in the attempt.

But young North Vancouver
painter Monique Mees is riot one
oi them. Her struggle to
deconstruct widely recognized
images of traditional repre-
sentational art is earnest and often
very subtle.

Though some of her works in
the show at Catriona Jeffries Fine
Art Gallery are tentative and ex-
perimental, others, like Validity of
a Portrait (oddly hidden in a cor-
ner of the exhibit), more than
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of portrait imagery established by
the likes of da Vinci.

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