Dotted with references to the history of painting, the world of entertainment and the world of digital technologies, Julien Boily’s paintings unfold as an attempt to strike a balance between the past, the present and the future. To do so, Boily generates virtual compositions whose elements are chosen according to their properties to interact with their environment: light, perspective, reflection, refraction and many others. Emulated by the digital tool, these attributes are then re-examined by the artist in pictorial works seeking to highlight the specificities related to the image generated by 3D infographics as well as to question still life as a genre and a practice in constant evolution.
Read more » He lives and works in Saguenay (QC). His works are collected by : Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Private collectiors in Canada, the United States and Europe. Less »
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (CPOA)
Desjardins Collection
The City of Montréal
The City of Laval
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Canopée Médias