NOVEMBER 21 TO DECEMBER 20 2020
After a memorable stint at Galerie 3 in 2018, the flabbergasting trio from the City of Québec is back with sculptures galore, reminding us that appearances are sometimes misleading…
Panorama d’un cycle pop 2 revisits our pop culture symbols to offer a cobbled together version as surprising as it is as astute. Designed from replicas of bronze popsicle sticks, dancers, musicians, stereos, rakes and many others unfold in space like so many playful and colourful figures sometimes defying the limits of the possible. While evoking the wooden objects that characterized the beginnings of the collective, these new pieces refine the artists’ material and conceptual play who, at the same time, continue their reflection on our relationship to consumption with all the candour and humour that we know them for.
Poetry and aesthetic pleasures await, for the joy of young and old!
Read more » Key figure of contemporary Quebec and Canadian art, the BGL collective offers sculptural and installation works using a playful and inclusive approach that amazed, disturb or simply make the viewer laugh with images that offer meaning on multiple levels. Described as “provocative, critical, and explosive”, their pieces use humour and extravagance to draw attention to social and political concerns. In addition to representing Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2015, the trio has distinguished itself by winning major public art competitions in Montreal and Toronto. They showed their work in Canada at the Museum London, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Contemporary Art Gallery, in the United States at MASS MoCA and Artist Space as well as in Europe at Centre culturel canadien à Paris, at Casino Luxembourg and MAC-VAL. They were part of Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Paris and Calgary. They won the Best Exhibition Installation and Design 2018 award for their Spectacle + Problems exhibition and were nominated for the Sobey Art Award in 2006 and 2010. They participated in a number of biennial art exhibitions, taking place in Havana, Ushuaia, and Montreal, as well the Manif d’art, la Biennale de Québec in Quebec City. BGL works are part of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, the Museum London and of many corporate and private collections. Less »
Press :
Le Soleil : Josianne Desloges – Un air d’été avec BGL et Amélie Proulx
L’Aérospatial – CKRL : Gentiane La France et Myriam Dufour – Myriam Dufour partage son analyse de l’exposition des œuvres de BGL et Amélie Proulx
