PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Pierre Bruneau is an artist born in 1958. He lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Pierre Bruneau speaks about his work: “For a long time, the phenomenon of phosphorescence has occupied a central place in my work. My works transform with the variations in light and react to the environment. Beyond the promise of a luminous revelation, it is the process of transformation over time that interests me.”
The 1996 exhibition is described as:
“The gallery walls are covered only with pale, yellowish monochrome canvases. This reduction, this blandness, this silence are only apparent. If the electric lights are turned off, in the darkened room the canvases glow with a new life. They are covered with phosphorescent pigments integrated into the acrylic. New apparitions have emerged: a man’s head with a hat, the indistinct profile of another figure. Time thus becomes a dimension of the work. The phosphorescent pigments must first absorb light before releasing it into the darkness. The existence of the figure itself is therefore directly linked to this process of energy accumulation, discharge, and recharge.” André Lamarre
Opening of the exhibition from March 13 to April 13, 1996.
