About
Montreal-based art initiative EN MASSE is best described as an ongoing exercise in irreverent, improvised collaborative drawing — a boundary-blurring cocktail of high and lowbrow culture, pop imagery fragmented like shattered glass in a spontaneous, multi-genre, black-on-white collision.
Since its creation in 2009, under the direction of Jason Botkin, Rupert Bottenberg and Fred Caron the project (often mistakenly perceived as a “collective” of artists), has worked with nearly 80 artists to date. The lifeblood of this drawing initiative is these individuals, whose diverse voices — grounded in the realms of commercial graphics, underground comics, graffiti, and fine art — weave together to build a collective vision, greater than any could create on their own.
EN MASSE is a platform for artists who have found themselves in an awkward relationship established protocols and sensibilities in the contemporary arts worlds, which has resulted in their work often being excluded from mainstream galleries, museums, and funding agencies. Likewise, it offers an unthreatening approach to contemporary art that is refreshing, engaging and even exciting to the general public.
En Masse Project from Fred Caron on Vimeo.
Did you do the installation at le petite hotel?