TRUNK© 25e | 25th (2021)

Le temps passe vite !
Deux anniversaires TRUNK© à noter.
Le deuxième moment aura lieu le 21 octobre, ce sera en effet le 25e anniversaire de TRUNK©. C’est l’exposition Opalescence qui avait ouvert la saison d’exposition.
http://139.103.17.11/tramptrail/needle/trunk_home.htm

Time flies!
Coming up are two TRUNK© milestones to note.
The second moment will take place on October 21st, the 25th anniversary of TRUNK©. In 1996, Opalescence opened the exhibition season.
http://139.103.17.11/tramptrail/needle/trunk_home.htm

TRUNK75 – 20e | 20th (2021)

Le temps passe vite !
Deux anniversaires TRUNK© à noter.
Le 29 + 30 septembre prochain sera le vingtième anniversaire de l’évènement « TRUNK75 extravaganza », un festival organisé en l’honneur du 75e anniversaire d’ACAD, Calgary, AB.
http://www.basicbruegel.com/trunk75_event/main.htm

Time flies!
Coming up are two TRUNK© milestones to note.
The first, September 29 +30, is the 20th anniversary of the ‘TRUNK75 extravaganza’ (2001), a festival organized in honour of the 75th anniversary of the Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary.
http://www.basicbruegel.com/trunk75_event/main.htm

Le Grand Dérangement (2021)

En amont de la journée de commémoration du Grand Dérangement du 28 juillet, une œuvre photographique qui fait état d’une légère modification à la boîte de rangement standard.

Around Osprey (2019)

We (Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas) just finished our project Around Osprey. We were artists in residence in Osprey, FL from July 1 to August 15 2018. It was an incredible experience of discoveries and encounters. Again we would like to thank everyone at the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast for their help. We would also like to acknowledge artsnb and the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.

Around Osprey is comprised of 12 videos and one interactive element to be screened together.
For more information on the installation: https://ospreycaretta.wordpress.com/portfolio/installation/
and for more info on the videos: https://ospreycaretta.wordpress.com/project-type/video/

Dichotomy (2018)

Dichotomy in black and white has migrated to the following address:
https://dichotomyinblackandwhite.wordpress.com/

Symposium d’art/nature (2016)

Valerie LeBlanc et moi sommes très heureux de faire partie du prochain Symposium d’art/nature qui se tiendra du 22 septembre au 2 octobre 2016 à Moncton, au Parc Écologique du Millénaire. Notre projet Visible / Invisible est un dialogue entre la matérialité du monde et la matérialité de l’espace.

Le Symposium d’art/nature : Moncton est une initiative du Département d’arts visuels et du Département de sociologie de l’Université de Moncton, de la Galerie d’art Louise et Reuben-Cohen et de l’Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick.

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World Portable Gallery Convention (2012)

Valerie LeBlanc and I are bringing the MediaPackBoard to EyeLevel Gallery in Halifax to participate in the WPGC 2012! It’s going to be great ! More to come later, in the meantime, here is the poster.

Cathédrale L’Assomption (2012)

Une photo de la Cathédrale L’Assomption que j’ai prise lors de l’événement Moncton24 fait partie de La cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption : Monument de la Reconnaissance. Le livre est publié par la Chaire de recherche en études acadiennes.

Le lancement aura lieu le lundi 2 avril 2012 de 16 h 30 à 18 h 30 à la Chapelle Notre-Dame-d’Acadie à l’Université de Moncton, campus de Moncton.

Monarchie-Monchhichi-Monarchichi (2011)

Monarchie-Monchhichi-Monarchichi (above), published in Her Royal Majesty — A Paris-based literary arts magazine , Nov. 1, 2011.  HRM is an international literary and arts review edited, designed and defined by a collection of writers and artists living in Paris.  The thematic for issue 11: Doubles.

While reading Language of Art by Nelson Goodman, I came across a description which I thought worked well with the image. Here it is below. I have replaced the Duke and the Duchess of Wellington for the Prince and Princess of Wales.

What a picture is said to represent may be denoted by the picture as a whole or by a part of it. Likewise, a picture may be a soandso-picture as a whole or merely thought containing a soandso-picture. Consider an ordinary portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The picture (as a whole) denotes the couple, and (in part) denotes the Prince. Furthermore, it is (as a whole) a two-person-picture, and (in part) a man-picture. The picture represents the Prince and the Princess as two persons, and represents the Prince as a man. But although it represents the Prince, and is a two-person-picture, it obviously does not represent the Prince as two-persons; and although it represents two-persons and is a man-picture, it does not represent the two as a man. For the picture neither is nor contains any picture that as a whole both represents the Prince and is a two-man-picture, or that as a whole both represents two persons and is a man-picture.

Original version:

What a picture is said to represent may be denoted by the picture as a whole or by a part of it. Likewise, a picture may be a soandso-picture as a whole or merely thought containing a soandso-picture. Consider an ordinary portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington. The picture (as a whole) denotes the couple, and (in part) denotes the Duke. Furthermore, it is (as a whole) a two-person-picture, and (in part) a man-picture. The picture represents the Duke and Duchess as two persons, and represents the Duke as a man. But although it represents the Duke, and is a two-person-picture, it obviously does not represent the Duke as two-persons; and although it represents two-persons and is a man-picture, it does not represent the two as a man. For the picture neither is nor contains any picture that as a whole both represents the Duke and is a two-man-picture, or that as a whole both represents two persons and is a man-picture.

The Language of Art, An approach to a theory of symbols, 1976, Nelson Goodman p. 28

Bébite-Man, l’homme bébite (2010)

monsieur bébite butine

avec son grand bec

dans les fleurs des jardins interdits

sur les rebords des assiettes

où sèchent au soleil

les restes des banquets

où reluit la mélasse sucrée

et les marres de sirop d’érable

il enfonce sa tête

au complet

dans la pulpe rougeâtre

des cantaloups juteuses

en fredonnant sa joie de vivre

il s’étend nu

sur les nappes à carreaux

près des gros fromages que les vents chauds

du sud-ouest

viennent lécher

il boit à grand trait

dans les coupes de champagne

il flotte dans les bulles du bonheur

comme un baigneur insouciant

23 avril 2010