My artistic work shows an interest in fictions shaped through popular objects, stories and sounds, based on imaginary facts rather than on real facts. In some aspects, my works are fictional documents, showing the backside of surreal inventions.
Like a popular encyclopaedia, those objects come from the past and my thought about fiction covers a memory activity. It is necessary to clarify that the use of the word surreal implies that an overpass reality exists in my work, and secondly, there is another supernatural dimension, boosted by the resurgence of these inventions, archaeological sounds and documents.
My artistic practice is primarily focused on painting and music and bifurcates from there to a variety of installations. I received my bachelor degree in 2006 from Laval University in Quebec. The same year, I left Canada for France, and my art experiences have never been the same. I pursued technical training in the art of Lacquer, at the National Arts and Crafts Superior School Olivier de Serres in Paris.
In 2009, I got a Master of Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris. I focused my interest on fiction and aesthetics of popular objects. Following that, my participation in the realization of art in environment has become active in different art centers in France, Belgium and others. In 2009, I joined an art residency called 'La Metive' (France), where I have been teaching and managing kids' projects as well. This work led to an outdoor exhibition, Impossible Park, of land art projects realized with college and high school students. Sharing ideas to live in an artistic way with nature and environment is one of my preoccupations.
Guillaume Légaré, Québécois artist born in 1976, lives and works in New York.
wood, hay and stone South Alps, Grandeur-Nature Festival, 2010, France.
wood picnic table in slidepath South Alps, Grandeur-Nature Festival, 2010, France.
wood, river, stones, South Alps, Grandeur-Nature Festival 2010, France.
wood, river, stones South Alps, Grandeur-Nature Festival, 2010, France.
380 cm x 210 cm, wood, La Métive residency program 2009, Limousin, France.
70 cm x 300 cm, painted wood La Métive residency program, 2009, Limousin, France.
rope, painted wood La Métive residency program, 2009, Limousin, France.
70 cm x 210 cm, painted wood La Métive residency program, 2009, Limousin, France.
varied sizes and mixed medium, Le module, La Sorbonne, 2008, Paris, France.
Glasses, Jules Verne's book, Bains connective residency program 2009, Brussels, Belgium.
varied sizes, red cadium pigment on strip plaster, photo on arid ground in Paris, 2010, France.
ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS - FUTURE
2010 Grandeur-Nature Festival, professional Land ART residency, South Alps, France.
ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
2010 Bermuda Triangle, art residency at Bains Connective, Brussels, Belgium.
2009 Impossible Park, art residency at La Métive, international artistic residency, Moutier dAhun, France.
2009 Jeune Création, at Le 104, international exhibition of contemporary art, Paris.
2008 Crocodile in my dream, exhibited at Le Module, UFR04, University Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
2008 International Art Biennal of Québec, Manif dart 4, Québec, Canada. www.manifdart.org
2007 International Art Biennal of Lions, Lyon, France.
2006 PAN! Peinture, showroom Le Lieu, transformed into an experimental laboratory of pictorial creation. Event reactionary and painting symposium, Quebec, Canada.
2006 1 Exposit 2, production and publication of a booklet of artist. Edition of 250 pieces submitted by Wagon Itinerant Art, organization presenting works of contemporary art, Quebec, Canada.
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2006 Les Coulisses de l'Oeil, Periscope Theater, solo exhibition. Collaboration with L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec, Canada.
2004 Motus and mousus layer, collective, Gallery Pavilion Desjardins, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
2004 Colors tablets, collective, Gallery Pavilion Desjardins, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
2003 Suppers of meninges, the graduating class in Fine Arts from Cegep de Matane, Quebec, Canada.
ASSISTANTSHIPS
2005 Technical Assistant Paryse Martin (sculptor and lecturer at the University Laval) for exposure Manoeuvres exquises, Circa Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2004 Technical Assistant for Philipe Boissonet, artist and professor at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, Canada.
2003 Technical Assistant at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec for Richard Purdy, artist and professor at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres. Preparation and mounting the exhibition Double Jeu, Quebec, Canada
TRAINING, Scholarship history
2007-2009 Masters degree in Visual Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, University Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
2006-2007 Diploma of Arts and Crafts - Lacquer, architectural decoration, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Arts Olivier de Serres, www.ensaama.net, Paris, France.
2004-2006 Bachelor of Art Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
2001-2003 Diploma of Collegial Studies in Arts and Letters: CEGEP de Matane, Quebec, Canada.
1996-1998 Diploma of Collegial Studies in Letters & Communication: CEGEP Limoilou, Quebec, Canada.
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