Street Art #103, Omen & Cedar Eve, Montreal (Canada)
Last post about Surfaces exhibition with Omen & Cedar Eve...
Heartfelt, Omen
WHERE
Place des Arts, Montréal, Canada
123Klan
WHO
Omen
Based in Montreal, Omen is a street-artist for more than twenty years, using essentialy aerosol paint. His work is very poetical with his mastery of colour gradients, his light and shadow effects...
“At no other time in history has there been a movement rallying around a medium. Acrylics, tempera, oil paints, none of these have brought artists together like aerosols. I hope that I can inspire a younger generation of artists to use the medium to push artistic boundaries and express themselves.” - Omen
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^On Avenue Chateaubriand, Montreal
<On Saint-Dominique, Montreal
Cedar Eve
Regeneration, Cedar Eve
Cedar Eve is Anishinaabae (Ojibway First nation) artist. She had her bacherlor's degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University (Montreal) in 2012. Her aboriginal identity is at the heart of her artistic approach with the paintings of people in a transformation process from Human to Animal.
"Through my work, I want people to question their knowledge of First Nations' culture. Nonverbal artistic representation is essential to the survival of Aboriginal cultures." - Cedar Eve
Transference, acrylic on wood canvas, 2016
Oil, pen on postcard paper, 2015
WHEN
- 2018.
During Surfaces, 16 street artists presented their works until the 28th October on the Place des Arts. You can see the two first posts : - A'Shop
- Miss Me
- Garbage Beauty
- Roadworth & Shalak Attak
- Zïlon & Zek One
Sources
Surfaces
Cedar Eve Instagram
Omen
My Old Posts about Street Art
#102 Zïlon & Zek One, Montreal
#101 Roadworth & Shalak Attak, Montreal
#100 Garbage Beauty, Montreal, Canada
#099 Big Maské, Zorm & Alex Nihilo, Lyon, France
#098 Invader, Lyon, France
I like the way Omen blurs subjects together. I like the colors and shapes in the first Cedar Eve shot. But I find the art kind of disturbing. Probably because I don't understand what the artist is expressing. My knowledge of First Nation is pretty limited
Yeah the Cedar Eve's work is very disturbing but the history between First Nations and Canada is complicated since the beginning but especially with the Indian School in the 50's (the government took First Nation's children away from their families to teach them Western values - forbidden to speak their language...). It was terrible and the effects are still felt in society today.