PROGRAMMATION 2023

We wish to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for its support for international reach as Contemporary Art Dealer.

RENéE GÉLINAS EXHIBITION

From Tuesday 7 February to Saturday 11 March 2023

Opening Saturday February 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

and meeting with the artist on Saturday February 25 and March 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

DERIVATIONS

Renée Gélinas presents Dérivations, a series of prints produced in lithography on stone and in relief on wood grain or linoleum.

In her abstract compositions, the artist continues to create patterns that constitute the shapes/words of her vocabulary - sticks, stripes, capsules, spirals - which, when assembled, will form a visual poem. These constructions resulting from a non-linear composition process are deliberately devoid of perspective, meaning and symbols.

The dies of the prints are recycled until exhaustion, by the size of savings in reduction, the cutting or the transfer. The artist takes several means to multiply their use: they are either combined and/or alternated from one image to another; the different color passages are sometimes made using different printing techniques; the conservation of a motif remaining on the matrix - in savings size or in drawing on the lithographic stone - can also become the start of a new work.

This use of the recycling of the same forms/words shows through in the series in such a way that these become recognised, familiar, transformed. As one can feel by seeing them juxtaposed that the works are derived from each other, these "derivations" allow visitors an incursion into the process of creation of images by the artist.

Renée Gélinas is a painter and engraver. She is a member of Atelier Circulaire and of Xylon-Québec. Her works are part of several private collections, the Loto-Québec Collection and the Banque et Archives Nationales du Québec. They have been presented solo in Montreal, La Sarre, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verdun, Sutton, Toronto, and in numerous group exhibitions in Quebec, Canada and abroad.

Saturday February 18, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

at the Circular Workshop

at 5445 de Gaspé, 5th local 517, Montreal, H2B 3B2

In the printer's lair

Danielle Blouin, The smell of shared ink

René Donais, Engraving in the crosshairs of the printer

Agathe Piroir, The practice of master printer

Symposium: in brief

The symposium is organized by two professors from UQAM — Peggy Davis from the Department of Art History and Nicole Milette from the School of Design.

It brings together some thirty stakeholders from the fields of research and practice in art history, graphic and printing arts and museology, in order to reflect, from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, on the current issues of prints and printed culture.

The event takes place over three days in person,

by reservation only

But also offers online access.

Information : colloque.dumouchel@gmail.com.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY PRINT MEDIA DEPARTMENT

From Tuesday 21 March to Saturday 1 April 2023

Opening Saturday March 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A STUDENT GROUP EXHIBITION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMAKING AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.

These students form group at Concordia University and will be presenting artworks resulting from their research with Stephanie Russ within courses at Concordia.

JEAN DESY AND HELENE LATULIPPE

From Tuesday 11 April to Saturday 29 April 2023

Opening Saturday April 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

ARTIST BOOK

Jean Désy is a poet. He teaches at Laval University in literature and medicine. His passions have been Nordic for much of his life. He still practices medicine as a convenience store on the North Shore and in Nunavik. Among his latest publications, an essay entitled "To be and not to be", about contemporary Inuit life, published by XYZ, in March 2019, another essay entitled "L'irrationalité necessary", published by XYZ in September 2020 , a story-poem entitled "No, I will not die", published by Éditions Mémoire d'encrier in January 2021 and finally an essay entitled "We are poetry", published in January 2022 by XYZ and made up of interviews with thirty- a poets and artists.

From Hélène Latulippe: industrial design and visual arts allow me to counterbalance chaos by creating a harmonious and calm environment. The straight line, as used in design and advocated by Kandinsky in arts, becomes my antidote against confusion.

I treat landscape in a distinctive way and I adapt the technique of traditional printmaking. I plunge into a specific environment in order to feel its flow of sensations. This experience finds its tangible form on linocuts with regular abstract motives repeated on different materials.

I invite the spectator to experience the tranquility of the landscape by observing at the topography of my work. To each, may discover a secret and imagine a meaning.

Christine Vandrisse

From Tuesday 9 May to Saturday 10 June 2023

Opening Saturday May 13 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Emerence Editions

BIOGRAPHY:

Christine Vandrisse, born on July 11, 1959 in Lille, in northern France, lives and works in Lys-lez-Lannoy, in the same region. A self-taught artist, after many years in the trade, she created Les Editions d'Emérence in 2011.

For eight years, she led a workshop on bookbinding, Colophon & Filigrane, in Wasquehal, France. The workshop has had three collective participations in Lille art Up, the largest contemporary art fair in northern Paris.

Christine Vandrisse has had multiple international selections at printmaking biennials. Her books are now part of public collections in France and Belgium. She has been a member of the Fondation Taylor in Paris since 2006 and of ADAGP Paris since 2009. She has received numerous awards including Labels Lille 2004 (France) and Mons 2015 (Belgium).

TEXT OF INTENTION:

In her work, whether through direct or indirect carving, Vandrisse aims to bring out the expression of the material. Her gesture is intended to provoke accidents that will guide her future path. The mechanical or chemical action will reveal the common intentions of zinc and her hands guided by the brain. Writing then emerges from spontaneity and the unexpected, in perpetual search.

PRINT FESTIVAL

Friday, May 26, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Since 2013, Manifestampe-Fédération nationale de l’estampe has organized the annual Print Festival.

In May 2023, the 11th edition will take place. Exhibitions, open doors for workshops, courses, conferences, etc. are organized throughout France, Europe and beyond.

JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE

From Tuesday 20 June to Saturday 8 July, 2023

opening on Wednesday June 28 at 5:30 p.m.

biography

Jean Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal in 1923. After studying al the École Polytechnique and the Montreal Fumiture School, he joined the Automatistes group alongside Paul-Émile Borduas and co-signed the Refus global in 1948. That same year, he moved to Paris where he lived for many years.

ln the early 1950s his large mosaic paintings painted with a spatula earned him a resounding success. From then on, the artist will not cease to accumulate the marks of recognition: in addition to several prestigious prizes, several museums dedicate him great retrospective exhibitions as of 1967. The considerable work of Jean-Paul Riopelle counts paintings, drawings, sculptures and engravings. Jean-Paul Riopelle died in Isle-aux-Grues, Quebec, in 2002.

**JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE**, *LES MOUCHES À MARIER*, 1985, PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT ETCHINGS, 50 X 66.5 CM,
DANIEL LELONG PUBLISHER, **© ESTATE OF JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE / SOCAN (2020)**
PHOTO : MARCELO TROCHE

ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION

“THREE CONVERSATIONS”

From Tuesday July 11 to Saturday July 22.

Launch Saturday July 15 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

It is with great pride that we announce that our artist’s book project has been selected as part of Dialogues: Encounters with Riopelle’s oeuvre from Sea to Sea. It will be an honour to accomplish it alongside the Riopelle Foundation and its partner, Culture Pour Tous. On the eve of the celebrations surrounding the centenary of the Canadian a rtist Jean Paul Riopelle, we are thus part of a major pan-Canadian cultural mediation project made possible by Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation in partnership with Culture pour tous, and the financial support of the Government of Canada.

SUMMARY OF THE PROJET “THREE CONVERSATIONS”

This project aims at creating a dialogue between poetry and visual art, materialized in an artist’s book on the themes of nature, indigeneity and migration explored by Jean Paul Riopelle in his lifetime. Under the leadership of Agathe Piroir, this project brings together Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan through artists Hélène Dorion, Joséphine Bacon, Chantal Ringuet, Jamasee Pitseolak, Peter Krausz, Catherine Farish, Olivier Bodart and Monique Martin. Each artist will meet with citizens in his or her province or territory around themes dear to Riopelle. All the prints and poems will be exclusive and available in limited edition. This work will be exhibited in several places: at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), at the Musée des métiers d’art du Québec, at the Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, as well as at the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine in Trois-Rivières.

Le Musée des métiers d'art du Québec

EXHIBITION

“THREE CONVERSATIONS”

From June 15 to July 15

PRESENTATION july 8

615, avenue Sainte-Croix
Borough of Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Qc, H4L 3X6

**La Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec**
PRESENTATION
“THREE CONVERSATIONS”
June 22,
(Rosemont site)
2275, rue Holt, Montréal (Québec)
H2G 3H1

Reservation june 22 , 6.p.m

La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières

EXHIBITION AT THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES OF “THREE INTERVIEWS”

FROM THURSDAY 29 JUNE TO 10 AUGUST

PRESENTATION ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 AT 10:30 A.M. AT THE UQTR LIBRARY AT THE SALON ALEXIS KLIMOV

3351 BOULEVARD DES FORGES, TROIS-RIVIERES

Celine Huyghebaert

Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir Prize

IN COLLABORATION WITH

LA BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE D’ESTAMPE CONTEMPORAINE DE TROIS-RIVIÈRES

From Tuesday 25 July to Saturday 2 September 2023

Opening on Thursday, July 27th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

Closing on Thursday, August 31st from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

From Céline Huyghebaert, I am interested in the meeting points between visual arts and literature through writing, publication, exhibition and collaboration projects. I use a variety of techniques to tell stories at the crossroads of documentary and fiction: traditional and digital printing processes, writing, editing, but also more sociological tools such as investigation, interview or archival research. I am particularly interested in poor materials and collaborative gestures.

In 2019, I received the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art for my artistic practice and the Governor General's Literary Award for Le drap blanc (Le Quartanier). I obtained a master's degree in literature and a doctorate in visual arts at UQAM. I am starting a postdoctoral fellowship on interdisciplinary writing and the invisibility of sick bodies between Quebec and France.

Frédéric Cordier

From Tuesday September 5 to Saturday October 7, 2023

Frédéric Cordier's work embodies a (post-)industrial imagination centered on fast food, factories or drilling rigs. His “vedute,” as he calls them, do not awe-inspire romantic 19th-century visions of blast furnaces depicted as steel monsters violating nature. Cordier's frontal landscapes are imbued with objectivity, even if his engravings schematize reality or are pure "caprices". Franz Gertsch started painting from photographs to free himself from his sentimentality. Similarly, Cordier's engravings, as well as his ink drawings, paintings on perforated sheets and printed wallpapers seem to be reduced to the format of the bitmap image, either in black or, more rarely, in blue or white. . A binary aesthetic reinforced in his linocuts by the composition of his scenes with geometric shapes or segments that seem to have come out of the toolbox of drawing software. Whether figurative or abstract, his works are composed of repeating patterns that function as analog visualizations of our digital culture.

In today's world of ubiquitous images, the sacred resides in the impalpable code. Each viewing of these digital coordinates on a screen is a generation that desecrates this absent original. Cordier, whose paintings on metal are inspired by repetitive and iconoclastic Islamic art, plays with these polarities of the sacred and the profane. His work demonstrates a fascination with the divine perfection of mass production. But it is through meticulous work using scissors, knives, pens and other tools that he seeks to imitate this standardization. The deliberate addition of errors or the dissolution of the motif is less reminiscent of a form of subjectivity permeating the works than of digital filters or algorithms applied to the image to disaggregate it. Through his extensive manual work, Cordier pays homage to the mechanized and digitized world, while emphasizing its hollowness which can only be remedied by his action on materials.

Frédéric Cordier is a Swiss-Canadian artist born in Montreal in 1985. He lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland and in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BFA from the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ecal).

Sylvain Menétrey, 2020

From Friday September 22 to Sunday September 24, 2023

This Fair is one of high standards: all exhibitors, without exception, in the “Rare Books” section are members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and affiliated, for French exhibitors, with the Syndicat de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM): this century-old professional association brings together the best specialists in the field of antiquarian and collectible books, obeying a strict code of ethics and offering collectors and enthusiasts the best guarantees of authenticity and the best possible expertise in their fields. Of the 230 members, nearly half will be present for the most beautiful event of its kind in France and one of the most important in the world, highlighting the exceptional cultural heritage of our collective memory, following the traces left by the human mind over the centuries, from the oldest works dating back to the first books to the contemporary avant-garde pieces.

International Rare Book & Graphic Arts Fair

Under the high patronage of Mr. Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic.

GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS

From Wednesday September 27 to Sunday September 30, 2023

Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir is pleased to participate in the Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar in San Francisco, California.

The Journées de la culture

From Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1, 2023

Initiated and coordinated by Culture pour tous, the Journées de la culture are free activities open to everyone that promote greater access for the public to arts and culture. As proclaimed by the National Assembly, the event takes place every year across Quebec on the last Friday of September and the two days thereafter.

Francine Simonin

Exhibition from Tuesday October 17 to Saturday November 18, 2023

Opening reception Saturday November 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1936, Francine Simonin has been working and living in Montreal since 1968. Her career spans four decades and she has had over 200 solo exhibits. She has also received many prizes and awards.

In 2004, the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec and the Monique and Robert Parizeau foundation gave her a prize to acknowledge and reward her contribution to the history of printmaking in Quebec. Her works are part of numerous public collections in Canada and Switzerland as well as many private collections around the world.

IFPDA FINE ART PRINT FAIR

We are pleased to participate in the IFPDA Fair to the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City this fall.

Catherine Farish

From Tuesday December 12 to Saturday January 27, 2024

Opening reception Wednesday December 13 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The work of Catherine Farish has been described as emotionally sophisticated and provocative. Her large mixed media works on paper form lyrical abstractions which are both sensitive and innovative. Her intuitive approach is guided by a dialogue with the materials and a sensitivity to the physical characteristics of each technique.

Farish received a diploma from the Montreal Museum School of Fine Arts and her BFA from Concordia University. She went on to study with a master printer in the French tradition of printmaking. She has spent the last twenty-five years experimenting and developing her own techniques. Catherine Farish has shown extensively in Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Asia with over forty solo exhibitions and her work can be seen in many collections.

Awards include the Grand Prize for Printmaking in Québec, the Acquisition Award from the City of Montreal, the Material Award in the Boston Printmakers Exhibition and several grants, including a residency at the International Art Festival in Asilah Morocco. In 2008 she was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the Quebec Council of Arts and Letters as well as a residency fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. In 2013 Farish was selected for two public works projects under the Intergration of Art and Architecture Program for the Quebec Government.

Farish is a founding member of Atelier Circulaire, an artist-run printmaking facility. She presently lives and works just outside Montreal.

ROBERTO MATTA

From Tuesday December 6 to Saturday January 28, 2023

Vernissage Saturday December 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren was born in Santiago Chile on the 11th of November 1911. He is known as one of the most influencial Chilean artists in the abstract expressionist and surreal movements.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile before leaving school behind to settle in Paris in 1933. During his travels in Europe, he spent time along side Arschile Gorky, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, André Breton and Le Corbusier. He first studies architecture at the

His early work consists of «inscapes», paintings that were inspired by Freud’s idea that the psychic landscape exists in three dimentions. Later on, his work reflects the political reality of the 40’s and 50’s. Notably, there is the apparition of machinery and distressed figures.

Roberto Sebastián Matta passed away on November 23rd 2002 in Italy.

Katia Grubisic and Ed Pien

ARTIST'S BOOK

From Tuesday October 25 to Saturday November 26, 2022

Book launch Saturday November 5 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Katia Grubisic is a Canadian writer, editor and translator, born in 1978 in Toronto. She is trained in literature and holds a master's degree from Concordia University. She is the author of a collection of poetry, What if red ran out, which won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her poems and fictional works have appeared in various journals and anthologies. She was nominated for the Governor General's Award, for her translation of the novel Frères by David Clerson.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1958, Ed Pien immigrated to Canada at the age of eleven. He received a Master of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto in 1984. His work has been the focus of numerous national and international exhibitions in such notable institutions as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Drawing Center in New York, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and the Goethe Institute in Berlin.

Ed Pien’s artwork draws on sources both Eastern and Western. Exploring the convergence of history, beliefs and mythology, his drawing based practice has often included intricate large scale installations that the viewer must enter and wander through. The artist’s work is included in many major collections including the National Galleryof Canada, the Museo de Arte y diseno Contemporaneo, Costa Rica and the Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. Ed Pien lives and works in Toronto.

IFPDA Fine art print fair

From Thursday October 27 to Sunday November 30, 2022

We are pleased to be part of the IFPDA Fair returns to the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City live and in-person this Fall.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE IFPDA WEBSITE

guild of book workers

From Thursday 20 October to Saturday 22 October 2022

Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir is pleased to participate in the Guild of Book Workers' Standards of Excellence Seminar in Atlanta, Georgia.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE GUILD OF BOOK WOOKERS WEBSITE

volume 5 MTL

Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir is pleased to participate in Volume 5 MTL at Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), 1201 boul. Saint-Laurent, MTL.

For more information visit the volume 5 MTL website

WANG SUO YUAN

in collaboration with Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières

From Tuesday September 6 to Saturday October 15, 2022

Vernissage Saturday September 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Wang Suo Yuan was born in China and has lived in France since 2002. Introduced to photography by his father, he also worked in jewelry and graphics, before turning to the fine arts. Trained in printmaking at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles, then at the Contrepoint studio in Paris (ex-Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter), he chose from 2006 to initiate personal research on the variations of the line, to develop his own mode of expression. Recipient of several a wards, he has presented his work to the public in numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as biennials and international fairs, in France, China, Spain, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Belgium, Romania, Canada, and in Germany, notably at the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières.

Stella Pace

LES ERRANTS DE LA NUIT…

NORMAN BIRON

CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION

Exhibition from Tuesday August 9 to Saturday September 3, 2022

Opening Thursday August 18 at 5:30 p.m.

Silence | 2022 | chine collé on Rives paper | 33cm x 51cm.

No translation

« L’intelligence est la force, solitaire, d’extraire du chaos de sa propre vie la poignée de lumière suffisante pour éclairer un peu plus loin que soi -vers l’autre là-bas, comme nous égaré dans le noir. »
Christian Bobin
« …rien ne périt malgré les apparences
Puisque tout se transforme et que toute naissance En ce monde a besoin du secours de la mort. »
Lucrèce

Dans la nuit d’un temps immémorial… sont apparues certaines traces de l’Humain dans les champs d’une discrète éternité. En parcourant ce fragment de l’œuvre de Stella Pace, je crois entendre un cri face au silence et à l’absence de mots pour dire les solitudes de l’Humain. La mort rôde dans ces champs d’errance. Au loin, il y a tant de chair et de sang…

Extrait de la préface de l'exposition Les errants de la nuit. ..

Normand Biron, président émérite, Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA/ Canada)¹

¹ Vient de paraître: Normand Biron, Les mots du regard, Promenades en art (1974-2017 ... ), Montréal, Ed Liber, 2022, 320 p.

JOHNY NGBWA

From Tuesday June 28 to Saturday August 6, 2022

Vernissage Saturday July 2 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Johny Hycinte Ngbwa was born in Cameroon in 1995. He moved to Italy in 2005. He became interested in art from an early age and then enrolled in 2009 at the State Institute of Art of Forlì, where he obtained the Master of Arts diploma and the baccalaureate in pictorial decoration and restoration.

Since 2014 he has been attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino where he graduated in graphic art and in 2020 he obtained a specialist diploma in edition and illustration for graphic art. He now works as a teacher at MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research).

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The Montreal Printed Arts Festival

Le samedi 21 mai 2022 de 12h à 19h

We are happy to participate to The Montreal Printed Arts Festival returning to 3487 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec in person this spring. The GRANDE Foire d’art printed brings together more than 50 artists and organizations who present their works directly to you.

Normand Biron

From Tuesday May 10 to Saturday June 18, 2022

Launch and vernissage Saturday May 14 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Launch of Normand Biron's book, Les mots du regard, published by Éditions Liber, and opening of an exhibition curated by Mr. Biron, based on works he has chosen from the studio's archives.

Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir is pleased to participate Manifeatampe.

LUCIE JOLICOEUR CÔTÉ

From Tuesday April 12 to Saturday May 7, 2022

Opening Wednesday, April 13 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Artist’s web site

We are pleased to exhibit the work of Lucie Jolicoeur Côté, with whom we have collaborated for many years.

In 1991, after having explored painting and drawing, Lucie Jolicoeur Côté turned towards etching. Enamoured by l'eau-forte, she studied the techniqueat the Saidye Bronfman center in Montreal as well as in Urbino, Italy.

Lucie Jolicoeur Coté is a member of Atelier Circulaire and ARPRIM. Her works are shown in Canada and internationally and are part of numerous collections.

“Lines and shapes in space are the supporting elements of my works. These shapes, these lines, I want them to be more and more significant.

What do these lines, these shapes express?

A harmonious opposition?

A search for strength, dynamism? A tendency towards beautiful sincerity? Certain austerity? A search for the essential, the sacred?

Or maybe all of these at once?”

Lucie Jolicoeur Côté

CODEX

From Sunday April 10 to Wednesday April 13, 2019.

Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir is pleased to participate in the 8th Codex Biennial, Art Book Fair and Symposium in Richmond, California.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY PRINT Media DEPARTMENT

From Tuesday March 22 to Saturday April 2, 2022

Vernissage Saturday March 26 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A STUDENT GROUP EXHIBITION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMAKING AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.

Concordia University students present the results of their master's research.

IFPDA Fine art print fair

From Wednesday March 9 to Wednesday March 16, 2022

We are pleased to be part of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, an exclusive online event.

XYLON QUÉBEC

From Tuesday February 8 to Saturday March 12, 2022

Vernissage Saturday February 12 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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Xylon au carré

The Xylon au carré Project was launched in the fall of 2019. Xylon members were invited to work on a 31.5 cm square format engraving. The twenty-five artists explore this constraint with great freedom of subjects and expressions. The square is thus used as its own subject, as a basis in the composition of the images, or even as a metaphor for the pandemic, both structuring and reassuring or, conversely, a source of confinement.

Jocelyne Benoit, Marie-France Bertrand, Micheline Bertrand, Claudette Delisle Menier, Nicole Doré-Brunet, Élisabeth Dupond, Monique Dussault, Carole Fisette, Renée Gélinas, Marilyse Goulet, Johanna Griffith, Julianna Joos, Ingeborg Jürgensen Hiscox, Louise Ladouceur, Claire Lemay, Marie-Aline Lemay, Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Noémie Lesquins, Odile Loulou, Stella Pace, Rolande Pelletier, Adeline Rognon, Anaïs Ronceray, Susie Veroff, Deborah Wood.

Du blanc au noir

Xylon-Québec also represents Du blanc au noir, his fourth artist's book produced in 2011. Presented in loose sheets, the book includes two poems by Claudine Bertrand and twenty-three relief engravings. The prints were done in black, including variations in gray. There too, the theme was free.

Xylon-Québec

Xylon-Québec is an association of professional artists working in wood engraving, which functions as a publisher and broadcaster stimulating research, creation, and promotion of relief printing. In 1985, Xylon-Québec has been recognized as a national branch of Xylon International. Since then, the association has concentrated its activities in the edition of several artists’ books and the organization of numerous group exhibitions. The technique of relief printing involves inking the protruding surface of the matrix, generally with a roller. Nowadays, artists may also use other materials besides wood, like linoleum, Plexiglas, plaster, cardboard, etc.