Alain Suprenant. Ledorata

The ledorata is a sacred enclosure under large gilded doors. In this holy place, distance and time merge and the travelers who cross it are tinged with the fires of the setting sun. Leda comes to pray when Zeus leaves her and, in the evening, you can surprise Castor playing with Pollux: in the gardens, the guests caress each other: the birds utter loud cries and pink scents sharpen the senses. It is there, in these rituals of love that souls in search of the divine are appeased. They travel to the end of themselves and back, their gaze laden with mysterious shadows.

The exhibition

Alain Surprenant, a master’s student in fine arts at UQAM, will present his works in the small room of the Galerie de l’UQAM, from March 4 to 13. The opening will take place on Thursday March 3 at 8 p.m.

Ledorata brings together seven works of post-modernist inspiration, under the theme of “eroticism”. On polychrome wood panels, gilded with gold leaf, Alain Surprenant offers different overlapping representations by superimposing multiple planes, thus creating sculpture-paintings treated as single painting objects.

He uses salvaged elements that he cuts out and arranges to suggest a theatrical staging where different anecdotes are experienced simultaneously on different planes. The cutting is important in this work since the shadows that flow from the pieces and that are projected on the wall create an interaction between the work and the wall space on which it is presented.

For Alain Surprenant, the pleasure of painting, the erotic pleasure and the pleasure that the visual experience brings overlap. His interest in erotic representation relates to the pleasure that can also be expressed through the act of painting. And the visual experience, the beauty of the shapes, lines or colors brings him great pleasure, which can only circle back to the erotic theme.