Peinture vinylique Flashe sur Tyvek, 2021
In Here Quick est une issue de secours. C’est un moyen de s’échapper directement à travers la page bleue. Le dessin semble être muni d’une porte qui s’ouvre comme la page d’un livre, qui se referme derrière vous sans la moindre fissure et qui vous cache entièrement d’absolument tout.
Adrian Norvid’s work has been shown in commercial galleries and museums across Canada, Germany, and the United States. He has been working with paper almost exclusively for thirty years. He is known for wall-sized drawings, paper objects, sculptures, and installations. His work presents an alternate, oddly inflected, ahistorical world, often referencing popular culture, that is saturated with humour and irony.
His life-size paper organ is in the collection of the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal, and a full-size one-room paper house is in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Norvid’s paper corpse performance Adrian’s Awetopsy was performed at McBride Contemporain (Montréal), Griffin Art Projects (Vancouver), the Kelowna Art Gallery, and Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire). Norvid has produced two books, Nogoodniks and The Fake Lake Bottom Feeder, both published by Drawn & Quarterly.