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The exhibition highlights an intimate artistic practice that reflects the artist’s recent creative approach. This practice is guided by the exploration of drawing as an independent and autonomous language. In response to the broad and diverse presence of drawing in contemporary art, Félix Cano is driven by a desire to reconnect with some of its fundamental elements—its materiality, the relationship between surface and trace, imprint, and the subjectivity of a creative process shaped by gesture.

Essentially motivated by a desire to respond to and organize the range of general emotions provoked by his material or immaterial environment, Cano’s work combines abstract landscape with a form of figuration—bordering on abstraction—and is focused on the exploration of gesture. His expressive, archaic forms suggest a narrative and a connection to the real world through the evocation of signs and objects that resonate with us on a fundamental level.

Félix Cano is a Mexican-born artist who lives and works in Montréal. He studied visual arts at the San Carlos Academy (UNAM, Mexico) and art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Early in his visual arts studies, he worked in theatre as well as in an industrial design studio. He later gained experience teaching drawing in graphic design schools and also led visual arts classes for children and for women in detention centers as part of a social inclusion program.

He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both Mexico and Canada.

Solo exhibitions: Musée Marius-Barbeau, St-Joseph de Beauce, QC – Le Lac, 2019 ; Maison de la culture de Lachute, QC – Vert, blanc et rouge, 2018 ; Galerie Vincent-d'Indy, Boucherville, QC – Arriver toujours, 2013 ; Maison de la Culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC – Tryptique, 2004 ; Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico – Recent Work, 2001.

Group exhibitions: Artothèque de Montréal, QC – Quoi de neuf, 2020 ; Centre culturel Stuart Hall, Pointe-Claire, QC – Collective, 2020 ; Maison de la culture de Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Montréal, QC – L’Héritage, 2014 ; The Arts Project Gallery, London, ON – Colores de Latinoamérica, 2010 ; Galería ICBC, Mexicali, Mexico – 13th Baja California Visual Arts Biennial, 2001.