À grand déploiement
(The Great Unfolding)
2008 – 2016
Newspaper, liquid white glue, Kraft cardboard, plastic straps, hardware.
Each module : 55 X 55 X 140 cm.
Artist collection and Charmey Museum collection in Switzerland.
I use the “honeycomb” assemblage technique, a paper collage technique that I have perfected over the years. Each module is constructed flat, as thin as a book. Once dried, the collage is unfolded, forming a lightweight voluminous structure. This technique amplifies the paper, which opens into supple and flexible honeycombs, echoing knitted stitches. The work can be folded flat, like a book that we close after reading it.
The modules are then cut so as to give them a symmetrical form. Unfolded, the modules have an identical double. Each module is different yet similar, as though part of the same family. We can see Rorschach inkblots or a collection of butterflies.The ambiguous identity of the forms evokes ornamental motifs, a migration of white geese, cellular organisms, or aerobatic manoeuvres. The newspaper texts give the honeycombs a grey tint and heighten the impression of being inside a hive! Each module joins the others to form a compact swarm taking over the gallery wall. In their circular forms, the modules appear, open and reveal themselves, and strut about.
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Photos: Martin Côté, Caroline Cloutier, Julie Picard
À grand déploiement was presented :
2022_Solo Show Déploiements, Vieux-Couvent de Beauport, Québec
2022_Group Show Galeries Weekend Montréal, Galerie a.
2019_Solo Show Couper/Coller, Galerie d’Art d’Outremont, Montréal
2017_Solo Show Spécimens, Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles
2011_7e Triennale Internationale Papier Musée de Charmey, Suisse
2011_Group Show Papiers choisis, Salon du livre de Montréal
2008_Solo Show Se pavaner, Centre G.R.A.V.E, Victoriaville
2008_Solo Show À grand déploiement, Œil de poisson, Méduse, Québec
Press :
« Julie Picard : Spécimens de masse », BRUNET, Louise, Revue ESPACE Art Actuel, Numéro 116, Printemps 2017, Montréal
« Symboles pliables », DESLOGES, Josiane, Le Soleil, section Arts visuels, p. A13, 30 mai 2015, Québec
« Papiers choisis au Devoir », PARÉ, Isabelle, Le Devoir, 14 novembre 2011, Montréal
« Le papier journal devient oeuvre d’art », GRENIER, Mélanie, L’Autre Voix, 1er mars 2008, Beaupré
« Julie Picard, du talent à grand déploiement », COCHRANE, Marc, L’Autre Voix, 3 décembre 2008, Beaupré
« Éloge de la lenteur », CÔTÉ, Nathalie, Le Soleil, 1er mars 2008, Québec
The artist would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec through the Soutien à la relève artistique de la Capitale-Nationale 2008, la Conférence régionale des élus and Forum jeunesse de la région de Québec.
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