Jean-Michel Correia: “Collage piège” (collage trap)
13 January-20 February 2016
Using Le Corbusier’s Modulor scale of proportions, artist, curator and art critic Jean-Michel Correia creates collages and paintings by developing a series of sensory devices on a previously established grid, on which the artist realizes different perspectives by adding colour and material and creating textures.
Correia manufactures his own paper using the five steps of traditional production: gathering fibres, pulping, bleaching, sheet formation and, finally, finishing. And then, as stated by art critic and historian, Philippe Piguet, Correia continues to play with the possible variations offered by a master set of panels. Through rigorous gestures and risking arbitrariness, Correia invented his own artistic method. He takes junk and cotton pulp and forms them into a square, addressing the work conceptually through multiple applications to create an order of construction that is both intellectual and tactile.
Non-figurative drawings and recycled materials are fixed in the paper. The artist then freely marks the work with pumice, rubbings or scratches. Finally, there are no longer objects in the paper, just their traces. That is the trap in Correia’s collages.
(text adapted from the artist’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Galerie d’art du Centre culturel
Pavillon Irénée-Pinard (B6)
2500 boulevard de l’Université
Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K 2R1 Canada
(819) 820-1000
Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 1-4PM
Image:
untitled
by Jean-Michel Correia
12.6″x12.6″
paper and mixed media
2012
Photo: Pierre Derosiers
Image courtesy of the artist Galerie d’art du Centre culturel, University of Sherbrooke