MARTIN BEAUREGARD—KARINE FRÉCHETTE—GABRIEL LEDOUX
Les nouveaux mouvements | Galerie d'art Desjardins - Drummondville
Exhibition postponed: new dates to be confirmed
a proposition by Marthe Carrier and Matthieu Dumont
Galerie B-312—Écart
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Following the eXcentrer exhibition project, the Galerie d'art Desjardins of Drummondville has decided to continue its collaboration with the four directors of Montreal artist-run centers by inviting them to curate one exhibition per year for the next four years. For the first exhibition in this series, Mathe Carrier in turn decided to invite Matthieu Dumont from the centre Écart in Rouyn-Noranda and exploit the link between artists, current art and their region. To do this, they chose artists from Drummondville, Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda.
THE ARTISTS
Martin Beauregard’s research and creation approach probes the relationships between art, ecology and post-digital culture. In the form of images, videos, sculptures and installations, his practice evolves at the intersection of visual arts, digital simulation, data translation, 3D printing and the materialization of sound archives. By integrating the recycling of industrial forest residual materials as well as the development of new approaches in art based on the principle of the green or circular economy as well as the use and creation of eco-responsible materials, Beauregard has a particular interest in sustainable development. and issues related to the humanitarian, economic and environmental emergency. Holding a double doctorate, one from UQAM in studies and practices of the arts (Canada) and the other from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Arts and musicology (France), Martin Beauregard is co-founder of Laboratoire intersectoriel d’impression 3D in arts, natural sciences and engineering at UQAT and co-researcher at Hexagram. His works have been exhibited in more than forty exhibitions around the world, including at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), at the Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin (France / Germany) and at the International Video Art Festival in Casablanca (Morocco). He and his team have obtained major research grants for intersectoral projects in 3D printing related to the development of ecological practices in art and engineering, notably from CRSH and FRQSC.
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Karine Fréchette's paintings and forms in volume construct vertiginous spaces, which translate a real obsession for waves and cascades of images. The artist's gestures weave networks of optical patterns, whose slow labor paradoxically results in the evocation of electrical pulses, reverberations, incessant movements and traces left in their wake. Like a seismograph, the pictorial gesture becomes a spasm. The surface of the painting becomes the vehicle of an energy that crosses space and bodies. Fréchette thus creates an experience of both optical and physical intoxication between the painting and the viewer. Karine Fréchette holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM and a master's degree in Studio Arts (Painting and Drawing concentration) from Concordia University. Finalist of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2014 and 2018, she participated in Team Canada for the VIII Games of La Francophonie in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) in 2017 and is the recipient of the 2018 Plaskett Prize of the Foundation. Joe Plaskett. This last prize allowed him to spend eight months in Berlin and Leipzig in Germany.
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Represent by Galerie René Blouin in Montreal
After studying classical guitar with Alvaro Pierri, Gabriel Ledoux left performing to devote himself entirely to composition. He won the composition prize from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student in mixed music at the University of Montreal. Interested in all art forms, he composes regularly for contemporary dance. In 2012, with Rosie Contant and Roby Provost-Blanchard, he co-founded the company Nébuleuse, which produces multimedia and multidisciplinary shows. In 2014, with Simon Chioini, he co-founded the record company ACTE, dedicated to experimental music. His recent artistic practice focuses on the medium-specific composition of the record and the integration of sound recordings with strong social connotations. His first record, Le vide parfait, was released by ACTE in January 2015.
As directors of artist-run centers from Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda and guest curators at the Galerie d'art Desjardins in Drummondville, Marthe Carrier and Matthieu Dumont have chosen to explore this triangulation: how art is experienced and deployed in our regions? Three artists. Three cities. A proposal. Crossed. Martin Beauregard produces works generated by digital tools. Gabriel Ledoux designs a video that it's sequences can be modified by the viewer using the same tools. Karine Fréchette paints paintings that could come from these technologies. However, it is not. She claims the gesture, the material. How are they different? Where do they meet? Placing them against each other is to link them to each other. Sharp corners. Soft corners. Multiple traces. New movements.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Following the eXcentrer exhibition project, the Galerie d'art Desjardins of Drummondville has decided to continue its collaboration with the four directors of Montreal artist-run centers by inviting them to curate one exhibition per year for the next four years. For the first exhibition in this series, Mathe Carrier in turn decided to invite Matthieu Dumont from the centre Écart in Rouyn-Noranda and exploit the link between artists, current art and their region. To do this, they chose artists from Drummondville, Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda.
THE ARTISTS
Martin Beauregard’s research and creation approach probes the relationships between art, ecology and post-digital culture. In the form of images, videos, sculptures and installations, his practice evolves at the intersection of visual arts, digital simulation, data translation, 3D printing and the materialization of sound archives. By integrating the recycling of industrial forest residual materials as well as the development of new approaches in art based on the principle of the green or circular economy as well as the use and creation of eco-responsible materials, Beauregard has a particular interest in sustainable development. and issues related to the humanitarian, economic and environmental emergency. Holding a double doctorate, one from UQAM in studies and practices of the arts (Canada) and the other from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Arts and musicology (France), Martin Beauregard is co-founder of Laboratoire intersectoriel d’impression 3D in arts, natural sciences and engineering at UQAT and co-researcher at Hexagram. His works have been exhibited in more than forty exhibitions around the world, including at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), at the Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin (France / Germany) and at the International Video Art Festival in Casablanca (Morocco). He and his team have obtained major research grants for intersectoral projects in 3D printing related to the development of ecological practices in art and engineering, notably from CRSH and FRQSC.
Website
Karine Fréchette's paintings and forms in volume construct vertiginous spaces, which translate a real obsession for waves and cascades of images. The artist's gestures weave networks of optical patterns, whose slow labor paradoxically results in the evocation of electrical pulses, reverberations, incessant movements and traces left in their wake. Like a seismograph, the pictorial gesture becomes a spasm. The surface of the painting becomes the vehicle of an energy that crosses space and bodies. Fréchette thus creates an experience of both optical and physical intoxication between the painting and the viewer. Karine Fréchette holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM and a master's degree in Studio Arts (Painting and Drawing concentration) from Concordia University. Finalist of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2014 and 2018, she participated in Team Canada for the VIII Games of La Francophonie in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) in 2017 and is the recipient of the 2018 Plaskett Prize of the Foundation. Joe Plaskett. This last prize allowed him to spend eight months in Berlin and Leipzig in Germany.
Website
Represent by Galerie René Blouin in Montreal
After studying classical guitar with Alvaro Pierri, Gabriel Ledoux left performing to devote himself entirely to composition. He won the composition prize from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student in mixed music at the University of Montreal. Interested in all art forms, he composes regularly for contemporary dance. In 2012, with Rosie Contant and Roby Provost-Blanchard, he co-founded the company Nébuleuse, which produces multimedia and multidisciplinary shows. In 2014, with Simon Chioini, he co-founded the record company ACTE, dedicated to experimental music. His recent artistic practice focuses on the medium-specific composition of the record and the integration of sound recordings with strong social connotations. His first record, Le vide parfait, was released by ACTE in January 2015.