Of Lines and Knots
May 29 to August 31
Free exhibition by artists Arnaud L. Vidricaire and Moe Piuze
This exhibition is the result of an artistic encounter between two mural sculpture practices, those of Arnaud L. Vidricaire and Moe Piuze. Two artists who, each in their own way, seem to challenge the idea that the objects they make are inanimate.
The work of Piuze and Vidricaire tends to eliminate the boundaries between painting and sculpture, image and object. Drawing their references from design, architecture, and art history, each of them has designed a unique visual language recognizable by the interweaving of different forms created by an energy that is both fragile and resolute. Seeking to capture the emotional states of their experiences, their assemblages, whether abstract or figurative, sometimes evoke the unconscious, the imaginary, or nostalgia.
By exploring the sculptural possibilities of painting in the digital age, they combine some traditional techniques with the possibilities offered by robotics. Two practices derived from drawing and designed as an intuitive game, a therapy, or a way of cultivating calm. This infuses their works with a mix of vulnerability, vitality, and joy.
Meet the artists: Saturday, May 31, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Artists statements
Arnaud L. Vidricaire’s approach is based on a daily creative ritual in two stages: writing automatically and creating forms that recall the writing gesture. Once the exercise is over, the artist has at his disposal only the gestures and the dance of the automatically created lines, more and more abstract with the time that separates him from the moment of his creation, leaving only the title as a memory of the emotions experienced.
This indecipherable writing, or these scribbles, is the starting point of his aesthetic exploration. Transforming into lines and random movements, these forms reveal the artist’s vulnerability while creating a deliberate opacity that protects him from a certain intimacy with both others and himself. From these creations, the tangibility of feelings manifests itself through the rhythm and gesture of the lines, creating a poetry that emerges from the inability to fully access the intimate.
The artist merges contemporary technological tools, such as drawing software and laser cutting, with traditional methods like painting and burning. This combination creates a paradox: from hyper-precision arises an act of surrender. Materializing in the form of lines, his emotions escape and float before us, free and autonomous.
Moe Piuze was born in Knowlton (Lac-Brome). He holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts. Over the years, he has presented his work in America and Europe, notably at the Art Museum of the National University of Bogotá (Colombia), the International Video Art Festival of Casablanca (Morocco) and, more recently, at the Musée d’art de Joliette (Canada).
Piuze uses a wide range of materials, from the oldest, such as weathered barn wood, to the most synthetic, such as Plexiglas that sometimes covers the photographic parts of his works. He creates a new reality by assembling these different elements, while preserving the uniqueness of each one. Shapes and colours seem to retain their autonomy, but together, they tell a story. Through their arrangement, he creates a dialogue.
Searching, accumulating, recycling; Moe Piuze composes for pleasure, with colours and materials that reflect his imagination. Three lines of thought form the keystone: the body, the habitat, and the landscape. This evokes the reality of his creation, namely the interweaving of humans with their environment.
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