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Artist Exhibitions:
EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES :
2008 The Debris Field,
Pierre-François Ouellette art
contemporain, Montréal,
Québec
L'horizon des événements,
Expression Centre d'exposition
de Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
2006 Speed Giants, Centre
d'exposition CIRCA, Montréal,
Québec
2004 Faits Divers,
Pierre-François Ouellette art
contemporain, ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
2008 - Jérome Delgado,
Premiers champs de couleur, Le
Devoir, (doc. visuelle)
2007 -Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande,
Autour dés errances, ETC
Montréal, No. 78,
juin-julliet, 2007, (doc
visuelle p.46-47)
2006 -Françoise Belu, Donner
du temps à l’espace, Vie des
Arts, No. 204, 2006.
(doc. Visuelle ...
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Collections:
Musée nationale des beaux-arts
du Québec, Québec
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Montréal
Canada Council Art Bank
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Michael A. Robinson
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«Many people have a tree growing in their heads, but the brain itself is much more like grass than a tree. » G. Deleuze & F. Guattari, Mille plateaux, Ed. de Minuit.
Strongly affected by the imagery of this particular quote from Deleuze and Guattari, Michael A. Robinson reflects on his artistic production as being at once diffused in a multiplicity of directions. But the plurality of his artistic experiences or the absence of linearity between his various works should not be interpreted as a simple commitment to methodological eclecticism. In fact it is fundamental to understand that his works function first and foremost as residues of performative actions and experiences rather than displays of alleged competence. Hence their poetic nature and resounding presence.
His artistic process is thus composed of loosely woven connections and multiple references which have no clear subject or object. Rather than trying to develop an interpretation of his subconscious, Robinson’s production process favours a display of the subconscious in motion.
By combining figurative and formal languages and conceptual and expressionist approaches, Robinson’s works play deliberately on the complexity and intimacy of the creative act as it relates to contemporary artistic production. The artist’s works are the results of tangled ideas, thoughts and experiences which esteem transparency over rigor, practice over the final product, transformation and opening over conclusions and affirmations.
As viewers then, we are invited then to consider his artworks not only for the finality of their appearances, but also for the process and inspiration which determined them in the first place.
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