Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin (born 1970 in Montreal ) is a Canadian sculptor. His works consist primarily of abstract sculptures, in addition, it also produces video installations, drawings, photographs and works of art from found objects to. They are in Canada and in many European cities. One of the most famous works by de Broin is the Salvador Allende Monument in Montreal.

Life

Michel de Broin studied art at Concordia University and at UQAM and acquired there in 1997 with a degree in " Plastic Arts ". The career as an artist began in his home workshop. His first major retrospective took place in 2002 in the Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, instead. Lived between 2005 and 2010 and worked de Broin in Paris and Berlin. In 2011, he returned to Montreal.

Many well-known art museums in the meantime bought his works, among them the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec ( Musée national des beaux -arts du Québec ), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal ( Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal), the Contemporary Art Museum of Val -de- Marne ( Musée d'art contemporain du Val -de- Marne), the Regional Fund of Contemporary Art Poitou Charentes (Fonds régional d'art contemporain; FRAC ) and the Neue Berliner Kunstverein.

Description of his art style

Michel de Broin has brought together several art disciplines for his art. It deals with questions about the limits of social and technical systems. Humor and a playful, he can almost always included in his works, as well as critical. Recurring themes in his art objects are energy and mechanical resistance. Many objects originated from a misuse of familiar objects and forms, they show the inherent paradoxes. Concept art forms for Michel de Broin a source of inspiration. For his series Hazardous substance in 1999, he was based for example on Kazimir Malevich 's famous Black Square on a white background. His credo is: "Art must always be an unfinished project, acting as a permanent revolution."

Work overview (selection)

  • Shared Propulsion Car ( free powered car ) The work of art is an old car whose engine was replaced by a pedal system. It was first shown at Exit Art in New York City, then in Toronto at the dealer association.
  • 2004: Superficial ( surface ): In the forest of the Vosges in Alsace de Broin has is trying to match with thin films mirror the contour of a large stone. It was an invitation to artists to reflect on the transparency.
  • Black Whole Conference (Total black conference) is a sculpture made of spherically arranged and welded together metal chairs. It is part of a collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Val -de- Marne.
  • 2008: Overflow (excess ) was presented at the White Night in Toronto. It has the form of a zerstiebenden waterfall over a house window.
  • 2009: La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel ( The mistress of the Eiffel Tower ) was built for the White Night in Paris. The sculpture is a giant disco ball from 1000 levels. It was erected by a crane on the roof of the French Embassy. With their size, they got into the Guinness Book of Records.
  • 2010: A continuous loop of a 16 mm film with the title: One Hundred Paces ( hundreds steps )
  • 2011: Majestic ( Majestic ). That was an additional project at the New Orleans Biennial. It arose from street lanterns that Hurricane Katrina had overturned. The lanterns were put together in the form of a star at the foot end. The Donald and Beth Sobey Art patrons acquired the work and donated it to the National Gallery of Canada.
  • 2012: Majestic, a large sculpture that was permanently installed in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
  • 2013: Michel de Broin: Cities of Light ( City of Light)

Art in Public Space

  • 2003: Révolutions ( Revolutions ) is a spiral staircase to a node that has been erected to commemorate the renovation of the subway station Papineau in Montreal
  • 2009: Monument; the sculpture was installed in a park in the city of Winnipeg. She interprets the classic theme " curtains " new: two spirits are on a round patch of grass and are covered with a large cloth.
  • 2009: L' Arc (the Arch ), Monument in honor of Salvador Allende, situated on the Ile Notre -Dame in Montreal
  • 2010: Revolutions; Reorganisation of the topic for the Jacobin monastery in Rennes, France. The work was placed there permanently.
  • 2014: More light. Contest winner to the exterior design of the Marie- Elisabeth- Lüders -Haus for the German Bundestag in Berlin. The sculpture is assembled from nine different street lamps and mounted on two opposite parts of the building. The " Light Star" is positioned approximately in the summer of 2014 and lit. The metal work was the Berlin company Fittkau metal and ironwork transferred.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: Solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal
  • 2011: Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am ( Car Fetish. Therefore I drive I am. ) At the Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2009: La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel ( The mistress of the Eiffel Tower )
  • 2008: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is Transformed ( Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is changed ) was the motto of the group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal ( according to an essay by Antoine Lavoisier )
  • 2007: De -con - struction ( De - con - struction ) in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
  • 2006: Machinations ( machinations ) in the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
  • 2003: Damage Control (damage control), Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto
  • 2002: épater la Galerie ( sensationalism ) at the Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar

Awards

The University of Quebec and Montréal ( UQAM ) awarded him in 2006 the Prix Reconnaissance UQAM In 2007 he received the international Sobey Art Award.

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