PRESS RELEASE

(For immediate release)

RETAILLES – Art Exhibition

Works on paper by Khouni Island & Nicolas Brassard

Opening: Friday September 20th, 2019

Gallery Parfois (4064 Blvd St-Laurent)
6pm - 10pm
Music at 9pm
Free admission (Voluntary contribution/ PWYC)

Artists: Khouni Island & Nicolas Brassard

Musical Guest: Bucket Hat Pat

Retailles, (which can be translated as scraps, clippings or cuttings), is a collection of new

work by Montreal collage artists Khouni Island and Nicolas Brassard. The exhibit will run
from September 20th through 22nd at Gallery Parfois.

Retailles is the result of a fortuitous encounter in a picture framing shop, when two local
artists bonded over their mutual reverence for the medium of collage, with its free and intuitive
approach to the arrangement of forms and its characteristic smell of freshly cut paper.
Though each artist clearly inhabits a distinct visual style as well as his own idiosyncratic
approach to the form, their creative visions overlap in a common desire to evoke a felt impact
through strong imagery and in their shared penchant for minimalism.

GALLERY PARFOIS
Gallery Parfois is a DIY art space, created for local artists, musicians, and creators to
showcase their work to the Montreal community. With a non-commercial platform, its
emphasis is on experimental art and emerging artists.

www.galleryparfois.com

Exhibition Schedule

Opening: Friday, September 20th / 6pm – 10pm

Music at 9pm

Saturday, September 21st / 10am – 5pm

Sunday, September 22nd / 10am – 5pm

Free admission. Voluntary contribution.

ARTISTS
Khouni Island is the name under which Vincent Khouni, a multidisciplinary artist based in
Montreal, has been practicing the art of collage since 2009. Drawing on popular culture and
historical landmarks of the twentieth century, his work is imbued with retro influences,
cinematic references, dark humor as well as a curious mix of glamour and kitsch. With the
aim of deconstructing cultural signs, codes and symbols, he incorporates album covers, old
hockey cards, advertisements, posters, magazines, and newspapers to create vivid scenes in
a rock n roll world. The artist is an active member of the local music scene (Orchids, Double
Death With Death).

After several underground exhibitions in Montreal, Khouni Island exhibited in Europe. During
the summer of 2017, his collages were showcased in France at Le Pop-up du Label de Paris.
He was selected to participate to MAOW, an exhibition in Brussels in June 2019 that brought
together nearly fifty international artists. Over the past ten years, Khouni Island’s work has
been featured in Luxuriant Magazine, Aye Mag, Supplementaire, Retard Magazine, Fricote
Magazine, Garagisme, and Distorsion Psych Fest.

www.khouniisland.tumblr.com

Nicolas Brassard is a Montreal based collage artist, photographer and printmaker whose
practice is deeply influenced by both his involvement in the world of book publishing and his
job as a picture framer. In his collages he uses old books, disaggregated bindings, yellowed
pages and faded halftone photos to evoke specific moods and to express his bibliophilic
nature. Brassard believes there exists a symbiotic relationship between art and its frame and
he builds all his frames with great care. Retailles will be his first exhibition.

www.zukommen.com/collage

MUSICAL GUEST
Bucket Hat Pat is a Montreal guitarist whose Delta Blues style experimental music project
makes use of lo-fi technologies and the qualitative experience of 4-track recorders.

www.buckethatpat.bandcamp.com