Boulad Sarrazin Savoie

From April 15 to 24, 1988, the Galerie de l’UQAM presents an exhibition composed of three solo presentations by Jean-Claude Boulad, Hélène Sarrazin and Roméo Savoie. All three are finishing their master’s degree in fine arts. Two are painters and the third is a sculptor.

Hélène Sarrazin

Hélène Sarrazin‘s work could be called an installation because the coherence between the pieces creates a homogeneous whole. Her work is based on a fairly large branch resting on the ground in equilibrium. As the artist puts it, “the pieces are divided into sections, sometimes painted, sometimes hollowed out, or simply stripped of their envelope (an operation which highlights protuberances)”. Hélène Sarrazin, through these interventions, organizes each piece into a coherent whole.

Roméo Savoie. De la trace au lieu

The work of Roméo Savoie is part of a methodological discourse. “Everything goes through the process, it is through it that matter is transformed into emotion, that the trace, the sign becomes meaning, intelligibility,” he says. Its presentation is divided into three independent stages.

Jean-Claude Boulad. Les 7 sensations de la machine

Jean-Claude Boulad presents seven pieces, made by collage and montage of works painted on paper between 1986 and 1988.

The works have been developed to form a content, i.e. a metaphor of the human body, as a machine endowed with consciousness and expression. However, as the work progressed, the initial proposition was reversed as it became a way to “introduce the idea of ​​the thinking machine, built in its image and in its service, with a capacity to feel and express emotions”. According to the painter, he “sought to present it all in a form of a journey inside the machine by suggesting an itinerary which will facilitate or establish a dialogue with the visitors”. The themes developed are: desire, love, nature, the city, time and revolt.