Laurent Craste | Revolution's Small Collateral Damage

Back Gallery Project (Vancouver, BC),  is proud to announce the first solo exhibition on the West coast of Montreal sculpture artist Laurent Craste. With a total of 17 new works from his well known and awarded Abuse Series this exhibition is an in-depth look into the artists work.

Of French origin, Laurent Craste has been living and working in Montreal for the past 25 years. His practice focuses on the exploration of the multiple layers of meaning of decorative objects: ideologically, aesthetically, and through their sociological and historical dimensions. The porcelain vase, in particular, has for years been the subject of predilection of the artist's work. Laurent Craste appropriates this archetypal figure of decorative arts, using it as matter, support and playground for his artistic interventions, in order to create striking formal and conceptual proposals. 

Ceramist by trade, Laurent Craste also holds a Master in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM, and he was awarded numerous prizes and awards during his career (Winifred Shantz Award, Grant to artists from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Arts Council, etc.) His works are on display in numerous private and public collections (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Public collection of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, Claridge collection, etc.).
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Throughout his almost 20 years long career, Laurent Craste participated in about 60 group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. He also presented a dozen solo exhibitions. Over the past years, he has have several  major solo exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario, the Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario, as well as at the Hohmann Fine Arts Gallery in Palm Springs, CA. Last year, his work was also exhibited in New York at the Museum of Moving Image and Paris at the Cité de la Mode et du Design.