Painter, photographer, and video artist Jean-Sébastien Denis was born in Sherbrooke in 1970. He has lived and worked in Montréal since 1993. Mr. Denis studied fine arts at UQAM, where he received the Jacques de Tonnancour graduate award in 1997. He has since taken part in several group and solo exhibitions in Montréal, Sherbrooke, Toronto, France and Germany. The artist’s pictorial approach stems from a reflection on movement and the instability of the things around us. It attempts to translate the complexity of the world by working from a broad spectrum of pictorial methods. His recent series draws on the intersection between the palpable and the virtual that typifies our current reality.
- 11 Artworks
- 45min 20min
- Outremont Metro
Parc Metro
Artwork description
A member of the Paul-Émile Borduas movement, Marcelle Ferron was a signatory of the Refus global (1948). Interested in the links between art, architecture and public space, she is now best known for the gigantic glass roof of the Champ-de-Mars metro station (1967). The mural produced echoes both the social thought of the great lady and her visual universe, which stems from the non-figurative Automatist movement. Jean-Sébastien Denis’s work favors an abstract vocabulary that brings his personal style into dialogue with Ferron’s: “Through the sustained practice of non-figuration that has characterized my work for the past 20 years, I carry some of the concerns that animated Ferron. The right to free combination of mediums is a fine example. This proposal gives pride of place to light, which emerges in different ways: sometimes like stained glass, often through the color palette borrowed from Ferron.”
This mural was produced by MU and Les Amis de la place Marcelle-Ferron.
To complete this fact sheet, a video by Éric Perron recounts the production and reception of the “Hommage à Marcelle Ferron” mural: https://vimeo.com/470164942