Grands retournements

Michel Boulanger

Grands retournements

Installation, drawing, video
March 1 – 29, 2014
Opening: Saturday March 1st, 4 - 6 pm
Salle de traite
2013
287 x 394 cm / 113 x 155 in
Credits: Guy L'Heureux
Laiterie
2013
Digital print
287 x 470 cm / 113 x 185 in
Remisage hivernal
2013
Digital print
287 x 409 cm / 113 x 161 in

Grands retournements by Michel Boulanger is a project of immersive art which appeals to the visitor’s capacity to mentally extend the real space in which one finds oneself into a graphically composed place. Through the discipline of drawing, the artist uses experimental hybrid forms, combines hand-made drawing with a synthesis of 3D imagery, the image in movement and the object.

Grands retournements by Michel Boulanger is a project of immersive art which appeals to the visitor’s capacity to mentally extend the real space in which one finds oneself into a graphically composed place. Through the discipline of drawing, the artist uses experimental hybrid forms, combines hand-made drawing with a synthesis of 3D imagery, the image in movement and the object.

The images that make up this installation describe the layout and equipment found in the interior of a dairy farm. This is an immersive experience in which the rudimentary yet detailed setting does not try to create a perfect illusion. Instead, it invites one to wonder about the moment when one’s intellect accepts a simple line drawing as real space, when the abstraction of volumes, deconstructed by the transparency of line, calls for a necessary opening up of the mind, indeed even a state of abandon in order for the illusion to work.
On the black walls of the gallery, a network creating a profusion of white vector lines seems to make up, although very schematically, the interior of an industrial-looking farm building. In the centre of the room, an assemblage of parallelepipeds composed of tree branches that reach from the floor to ceiling, paradoxically attempts to deny its physical reality in order to seem more like a drawing.
The visitor will encounter an object disturbing the logic of this highly rationalized space. In the context of contemporary agriculture, it is a matter here of being immersed in the strangeness of these industrial farm spaces used for raising animals.

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