Marc Bell (7)

Marc Bell’s (born in London, Ontario, 1971) comic books, the tiny tip of the magnificent iceberg which is its prolific work, looks forward to perpetuating a certain kind of wild, absurd, wobbly underground comic-book tradition, filled up with popular landmarks which jump at the face but in way that seems totally unexpected, and systematically astounding. And in the very same time, Marc Bell also produces collages, paintings, and heterogeneous assemblies of abstract-look-alike which, on their side, take away, even more, the reader/watcher from this stunning man’s singular and odd creative mind. The exhibitions that result make you wonder what could happen inside his head: no doubt the assemblage should look remarkably fascinating. Marc Bell is a hard-to-classify artist, and it’s totally pointless to try to reduce his work in a few lines. His artwork, scattered in many self-published productions, is also viewable in the press (The Montreal Mirror, The Halifax Coast, Vice Magazine…) and in some various anthologies (Kramers Ergot, The Ganzfeld…).