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Jacques Clement

Jacques Clement is a Montreal artist whose current project consists of a collection of ink and acrylic life drawings traced on long narrow strips of brown paper, often elaborated by the addition of collage, stencil, and monotype. Each strip of paper is folded and refolded upon itself, accordion-like, mimicking road maps and containing sixty-four 11"x5" drawings.

His philosophical position to art is one of reaction, the process of how one thing leads to another. He respects and draws energy from things that are imposed on him. His work is an encounter with circumstance and necessity. When he wanted to work big but lacked the space, he began to fold the paper up like a map to transport figure drawings. Each surface is worked on independently by unfolding and refolding, and the surprise is in the process.

Drawing is a daily form of meditation for Clement. What comes out can be beautiful, or disturbing, or silent; it all depends on the circumstances. Viewers are invited to enter his personal language of forms, gestures, textures, colours and the particular drama he’s drawn out of the space.

Jacques Clement, Detail

Exhibition Date: July 24 to August 30
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 26, at 1pm in the Gallery

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Jacques Clement's Website