{"id":37570,"date":"2018-09-01T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=37570"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:03:45","slug":"hommage-a-guido-molinari-mercer-union-archive-w-simon-cerigo-nancy-smith-marshal-hopkins-barbara-reid-anna-marie-cobbold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/09\/01\/hommage-a-guido-molinari-mercer-union-archive-w-simon-cerigo-nancy-smith-marshal-hopkins-barbara-reid-anna-marie-cobbold\/","title":{"rendered":"~HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO \/ ARCHIVE w SIMON CERIGO, NANCY SMITH, MARSHAL HOPKINS, BARBARA REID & ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARDCORE – O.G. !!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

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\nabove, a wall of PAINTINGS by SIMON CERIGO \/ painted in NYC, in a studio\/apt of a run down storefront on Rivington & the Bowery, at the heart of the Lower East Side, and shipped up North for the show.
\nARCHIVAL IMAGE VIA MERCER UNION<\/a><\/p>\n

’54\/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’
\ncurated by ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD
\n23 OCT 1984 – 17 NOV 1984
\nMERCER UNION<\/a> – a long running, artist-run space in TORONTO, founded in 1979 & still up & running.<\/p>\n

Early works on paper by the Canadian Formalist, GUIDO MOLINARI, (RIP) will be on exhibit together with recent work by 5 of his former students . . . . .
\nSIMON CERIGO (RIP), NANCY SMITH, MARSHAL HOPKINS, BARBARA REID, & ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD (RIP) <\/p>\n

def, see: ’54\/84′ archive on MERCER UNION website<\/a><\/p>\n

we all<\/strong> lived & studied with Guido in Montreal, except by 1984 Anna-Marie had moved to Toronto & thus managed to swing the show. We were all in our early 30s, except for Guido, of course . . who was 51, but at the time very<\/strong> very, famous, and with good reason, he was a brilliant man \/ both in Quebec & the rest of Canada.<\/p>\n

not all the members of Mercer Union at the time were behind the show, thus<\/strong> a lack of archival documentation of the art of all the exhibitors. this was because we represented a radical, hardcore (some might say: ‘outsider’), underground presence, and they<\/em> were more predictable, mainstream and grant-leaning \/ at the time, I will give no names, at present, lol.
\ntime will tell . . !!
\nthere’s visionaries, and there’s, NOT.
\nSIMON & I, had already split for New York, 1981.
\nRENO & MARSH .. left for Vancouver.
\nand Anna-Marie died peacefully in her sleep one day, for some strange reason, not too long after.<\/p>\n

def, see: GUIDO MOLINARI<\/a><\/p>\n

to help put the timeline in perspective, LEONARD COHEN was 50, one year younger than Guido …. and had just released ‘Hallelujah’ (1984). it was really <\/strong> culturally, a glory time in Montreal, fueled by the immigrant experience, rather than the native French population, but whose magic and poetry . . we adored, & absorbed like crazy. <\/p>\n

today you can reference that inspired ‘Montreal’ fever, in the English-speaking band, ARCADE FIRE & the young artist, JIM JOE who has a big show at THE HOLE opening this month.<\/p>\n

& of course, the formalism and ability to break-down art, that I learnt from Guido so well . . .
\nis the backbone of this . . blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HARDCORE – O.G. !!!!!!!!! above, a wall of PAINTINGS by SIMON CERIGO \/ painted in NYC, in a studio\/apt of a run down storefront on Rivington & the Bowery, at the heart of the Lower East Side, and shipped up North for the show. ARCHIVAL IMAGE VIA MERCER UNION ’54\/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37570"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37586,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37570\/revisions\/37586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}