COOPER COLE is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Julien Ceccaldi. Titled Celebu-Spawn, this marks the artist’s first show with the gallery as well as his first solo exhibition in Canada.

The summer the French Revolution begins, Prince Louis-Joseph dies of tuberculosis at seven years old. He is spared from having to face the wrath of the people, unlike his younger brother Louis-Charles. Separated from his mother, the second Dauphin is psychologically conditioned into becoming a commoner, and forced to sign a false letter accusing her of abuse. The child’s deposition serves as the ultimate pretext for her trial and public execution by guillotine.

Months later, he lies in bed malnourished and ill. The ten-year-old boy murmurs to his jailer that he heard beautiful music and saw his mother, and passes away from tuberculosis, as his older sibling did years earlier. Like a budding rose set on fire, his promised life of elegance ends as ashes from the blaze of history.

During the autopsy,…