Alain
Bonder
Galerie Orange, Montréal Duo with Pierre Durette 15/10/08 - 10/11/08 the paintings "Fear the doily" is a series based on horror movies. In the compositions scared people are juxtaposed with doilies. The doilies replace the monster from the horror movie creating a parallel between the two to show the other type of monster related to excess, comfort and materialism which can also destroy us.
The anxiety created by our objects is the main theme of this series. Objects big and small take up a lot of our thoughts/ space in our lives till they finally consumes us.
In these paintings like a UFO or a bubble, the doily floats over the character. It follows us heavily like a shadow.
" Fear the doily sous-entend qu'il faut se méfier des excès d'une certaine façon de vivre, d'un certain confort, d'une certaine facilité, incarné par un napperon. " Claude Bouchard, La symbolique des réalités, Le Droit, Ottawa, 19-20 janvier 2008
Alain Bonder, Fear the doily, 2007, acrylic, charcoal and cotton on canvas
