Galerie Orange welcomes, for the first time, emerging artist Jean-Robert Drouillard, who revisits classic wood sculpture creating a playful universe where paradox and contradiction are ubiquitous.

Jean-Robert Drouillard is one of the only sculptors of his generation working with wood using the practices of traditional craftsmen. His technical abilities unveil with vigor a unique and mythical world. He deliberately leaves his signature on the surface of the wood ; the marks and imprints he unavoidably inflicts onto the material and the pure colors applied on the surfaces gives the work life and disconcerting presence.

The self-portrait is at the heart of Drouillard’s sculptural creations. His renderings in sculpture mirror the use of the first person in litterature; his work is a reflection on both his personal state and today’s fixation with individuality.

In ACTUAL POETRY (C’est à moi que tu parles ?), he chooses an iconography that he qualifies as ‘boreal’. A grouping of imaginary characters, evoking both man and beast, emerges from the raw material. It looks as if a silent dialogue between Ovide and La Fontaine is about to begin. Both realistic and transformed, grotesque and dignified, the beings populating this deceptively naive universe use disguises, but also reveal the depth of their nature.

Jean-Robert Drouillard was born in 1970 in Chatam (Ontario) and spent most of his childhood in Gaspésie before moving to Quebec city. After studying litterature and litterary creation, Drouillard turned towards sculpture. He received his diploma from the École-Atelier de sculpture in Quebec city in 2000 and immediately started to make sculptures and objects in wood, metal and concrete. He works at the ateliers du Bloc 5, a work cooperative which he founded in 2002 in Limoilou with four other artists and crafstmen. He teaches sculpture at the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec since 2004.

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