Mario Côté

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Mario Côté is a painter and video director who lives, works in Montreal and teaches at Université du Québec à Montréal. His works depict landscape elements through which the boundaries between painting, photography, sound and video are blurred. He nevertheless attempts to differentiate between the different types of media. A sort of battle takes place in Mario Côté’s works, in which all elements want to coexist thus shaking the pictorial tradition caused by the manipulations in video montage and photographic reproduction techniques.

Côté’s painting which is largely influenced by video work as process, procedure and activity, aims at creating certain conditions to define new forms of subjectivities. His recent works mark a turning point in his representation of sound.

His works consist in transcripting sounds, sometimes lasting only a couple seconds, in a pictorial proposal. His works are usually divided into three horizontal layers – which are themselves fragmented by vivid colored blocs – inside of which appear graphic translations of noises or electronic sounds. Yet these different sonar graphics are not literal transcriptions of recorded sounds but free translations forming a visible code.

 
2011Vie des Arts | Jean De Julio-Paquin
 Mario Côté | Quand une musique devient peinture | 1 janvier
 
2008Etc |
 Les tranferts esthétiques | 15 février
 
2005Le Devoir | Bernard Lamarche
 Des généalogie qui parlent | 16 avril
 
2004Vie des arts, no 193 | Jean-Émile Verdier
 L’OEil complice, le catalogue à l’épreuve de la lettre | 1 novembre
 
2004Vie des arts | Julie Lussier
 Paysage(s) | 1 octobre
 
2003Etc Montréal | Joanne Lalonde
 Vidéo et figures de la réappropriation | 21 septembre
 
2003The Gazette | Henry Lehmann
 A threat to innocence | 15 février
 
2002Le Devoir | David Cantin
 À quoi ressemble le réel ? | 16 novembre
 
2002La Presse |
 Sons et images | 6 avril
 
2002Séquence, | Claire Valade
 Ceux qui cherchent, Les nouvelles images, le cinéma d’art… | 1 mars
 
1998Le Devoir | Bernard Lamarche
 Le mensonge de la couleur | 23 mai
 
1998Canadian Art |
 Abstract Painting Peinture Abstraite | 1 janvier
 
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Mario Côté – Publication Voir la musique et entendre la peinture

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

A beautiful catalogue featuring all the interventions of the roundtable that took place in the gallery during the last Mario Côté exhibition just got launched during the ARC_PHONO colloquium, the UQAM research group Côté is leading. Copies are available at the gallery; let us know if you want to take a peak!
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Mario Côté's book launch

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Mario Côté's book Voir la musique entendre la peinture will be launched on September 13th at Agora Hydro-Québec/Hexagram UQAM. The launching is one of several events organised by ARC_PHONO. You can download the whole programming here.
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New website

Monday, June 25th, 2012

The new website of Mario Côté has just been posted! Discover 25 years of creation in pictures and the various research groups in which the artist is involved by clicking here.
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Mario Côté @ FIFA

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Hozhro, cantate scénique, a film directed by artist Mario Côté is presented March 18th at Cinémathèque québécoise during the 30th edition of the FIFA Montreal (Festival International du Film sur l'art). To learn more about the film, click here.

Mario Côté in Vie des Arts

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

An article in the latest issue of Vie des arts about the most recent Mario Côté's exhibition, Palais de Mari, that you can read right here ! Vue de l'exposition de Mario Côté

Roundtable "Voir la musique et entendre la peinture"

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

On the occasion of the exhibition Palais de Mari / Tableaux augmentés of the artist Mario Côté, a round table discussion on the American composer Morton Feldman takes place at Galerie Trois Points on October 22nd. The participants engage in discussions and debates relating to Feldman’s production – notably the Palais de Mari piece – and talk about the relations between this work and the visual arts.

Several spokespeople in the fields of music and visual arts are invited to participate in this round table discussion. Philip Gareau, musicologist and author of the book La musique de Morton Feldman ou le temps en liberté will approach the context of creation of Palais de Mari, evoke the composer’s passion for the visual arts, and will also touch upon the topic of Middle-eastern rugs, in relation to the work. The composer Alexis Raynault will analyze the original musical score. Chantale Laplante, also a composer, will talk about the influence of Feldman on Côté’s own work. Fanny Mesnard, a painter, will be interested in the process of translation from one discipline to another, while Sophie Castonguay, painter and performer, will engage in a conversation based on indeterminate questions and answers with the artist Mario Côté.

You can see here photos of the event ...