Mark Clintberg: Not over you

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Mark Clintberg's work often uses text-based forms of public address like neon signage and billboard displays to express privately-held sentiments of longing, desire, and love. As part of Tragedy Plus Time, Dunlop Art Gallery and RPL have commissioned Clintberg to create a new work for Central Library's exterior façade. The phrase “NOT OVER YOU” looms over the building and over the individuals that pass through its doors, a clever pun on the dissonance between the physical and emotional spaces we simultaneously occupy.

Mark Clintberg is a Montreal-based artist who works in the field of art history and curates exhibitions. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History at Concordia University in 2013. His work can be found in public and private collections across Canada and in the United States, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He has presented work across Canada, and a new iteration of his collaboration with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Garde Rose, will take place in Berlin in Summer 2014. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award.

Mark Clintberg, Not Over You (Installation View), 2014. Photo by Eagleclaw Thom.