Peinture vinylique Flashe sur papier, 2021
Figures At Table concerne autant la géométrie que les relations interpersonnelles. Cela peut être une table de négociation ou de fête, ou encore une planche de ouija qui flotte. Elle est à fois complètement plate et obstinément tridimensionnelle. La table ne cesse de basculer entre la position horizontale et inclinée, et on dirait que les personnages ont du mal à maintenir ce parallélogramme violet en place.
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.