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Couleurs \u00a0\/ \u00a0Port Saint John Gallery \u00a0\/ March 15 – April 26, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MOT DU COMMISSAIRE<\/p>\n

COULEURS consiste en une s\u00e9rie de douze tableaux par l\u2019artiste visuelle Rebecca Belliveau, dans laquelle elle combine des gicl\u00e9es, photomontages, m\u00e9diums et pig-ments, afin d\u2019exprimer les \u00e9l\u00e9ments po\u00e9tiques et spirituels pr\u00e9sents dans la nature. Elle explore ces mat\u00e9riaux et techniques depuis une d\u00e9cennie et dans ce cas particulier se tourne d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment vers une \u00e9puration dans la repr\u00e9sentation du sujet de l\u2019oeuvre. L\u2019emphase est mise sur une simplification arbitraire de l\u2019ensemble des composantes du tableau, et la couleur est trait\u00e9e cat\u00e9go rique-ment. Belliveau fait appel \u00e0 diff\u00e9rentes strat\u00e9gies visuelles afin de faire une analogie entre la physicalit\u00e9 de l\u2019arbre en tant que symbole et la relation profonde que l\u2019artiste entretient avec le langage.<\/p>\n

Belliveau r\u00e9ussit \u00e0 \u00e9tablir un rapport entre ses id\u00e9es visuelles et les moyens techniques \u00e0 sa disposition et son but demeure celui de communiquer l\u2019essence de la forme et de la couleur par son action dynamique de peindre. On peut comprendre que sa d\u00e9marche en est une de questionnement et de recherche visuelle interpellant le spec-tateur. L\u2019artiste adopte une approche contemplative d\u2019envergure qui sert \u00e0 questionner nos perceptions sur la nature, la culture et le langage comme construction.<\/p>\n

COULEURS est un ensemble de tableaux qui s\u2019adresse \u00e0 toutes les strates sociales par la simplicit\u00e9 du sujet et par l\u2019utilisation du symbole universel de l\u2019arbre et de ses ra-cines. Le but de l\u2019artiste est de sensibiliser le spectateur au rapport existant entre le langage visuel et de la langue parl\u00e9e et \u00e9crite. Rebecca Belliveau invite donc le spectateur \u00e0 questionner le r\u00f4le de la langue par l\u2019entremise d\u2019une d\u00e9marche visuelle qui porte l\u2019emphase, simultan\u00e9-ment, sur nos diff\u00e9rences et nos similarit\u00e9s culturelles.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>–\u00a0 <\/span>Paul \u00c9douard Bourque<\/p>\n

CURATOR\u2019S MESSAGE<\/p>\n

COULEURS consists of a series of twelve paintings by visual artist Rebecca Belliveau, in which she combines gicl\u00e9es, photomontages, mediums and pigments to express the poetic and spiritual elements that are present in nature. She has been exploring these materials and techniques for a decade and is now deliberately simplifying the subject of her work by emphasizing all compositional elements, with the element of color being treated categorically. Belliveau uses different visual strategies to make an analogy between the physicality of the tree as a symbol and the artist\u2019s deep-felt relationship with language.<\/p>\n

Belliveau manages to relate her visual ideas with the technical means at her disposal and her initial goal of communicating the essence of form and color through the dynamic action of painting. The artist invites the viewer to adopt a contemplative approach towards the body of work\u2019s subject matter in order to further question our perceptions of nature, culture, and language.<\/p>\n

COULEURS is a body of work which addresses all social strata with the simplicity of its subject and the use of the tree and its roots as a universal symbol. The goal of the artist is to sensitize the viewer to the relationship between visual, spoken, and written language. Rebecca Belliveau thus invites the viewer to question and interpret similarities and differences manifest across various cultural landscapes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>– Paul \u00c9douard Bourque<\/p>\n

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D\u00c9CLARATION DE L\u2019ARTISTE<\/p>\n

COULEURS traite du symbolisme de l\u2019arbre. En \u00e9voluant avec le temps, aussi bien qu\u2019avec l\u2019expansion g\u00e9ographique, la langue fran\u00e7aise sest d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e et a grandie. Aujourd\u2019hui, elle poss\u00e8de des branches innombrables, des versions nouvelles et des dialectes diff\u00e9rents, tout comme on retrouve une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 organique dans les milliers d\u2019esp\u00e8ces d\u2019arbres de la plan\u00e8te. Cette vie et son \u00e9volution sont possibles gr\u00e2ce aux racines – souterraines, et donc invisibles – et qui sont autant grandes et importantes que l\u2019arbre lui-m\u00eame. Sans ses racines, l\u2019\u00e9volution et la vie des arbres, comme celle de la langue, n\u2019aurait pu se faire. En recherchant le plus loin possible pour les racines de la langue fran\u00e7aise, on retrouve le Latin. Pour cette raison, dans ma s\u00e9rie intitul\u00e9e \u00ab Couleurs \u00bb, j\u2019ai int\u00e9gr\u00e9 des mots qui proviennent d\u2019un texte d\u2019Andronicus, traduit de l\u2019Odyss\u00e9e d\u2019Hom\u00e8re. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un des plus anciens textes connus en Latin. L\u2019Odyss\u00e9e raconte l\u2019histoire d\u2019un voyage imaginaire et h\u00e9ro\u00efque. L\u2019analogie se fait avec le trajet de notre langue: le voyage magique de la langue fran\u00e7aise \u00e0 travers le monde pendant des mill\u00e9naires.<\/p>\n

COULEURS fut con\u00e7ue et cr\u00e9\u00e9e lors d\u2019une r\u00e9sidence d\u2019artiste au pays de Solesmois, au nord de la France, en mars 2019. Le th\u00e8me autour de cette s\u00e9rie de peintures fait une analogie entre les peuples et cultures francophones du monde, et les vari\u00e9t\u00e9s d\u2019arbres que l\u2019on retrouve dans la nature.<\/p>\n

ARTIST STATEMENT<\/p>\n

COULEURS deals with the symbolism of the tree. In its evolution over periods of time, as well as with the expansion of geography, the French language has grown and developed. Today, it has innumerable branches, new versions of the language and a vast variety of dialects, much in the same way that we find organic varieties in the thousands of species of trees on the planet. This life and its evolution are possible thanks to its roots: they exist underground and are therefore invisible but are as large and important as the tree itself. Without roots, the evolution and the life of trees – just like those of language – would not have been possible. When looking back in time for the roots of the French lan-guage, we find Latin. Each painting of the series COULEURS has words integrated from one of the oldest known texts in the world, Andronicus\u2019s Latin translation of Homer\u2019s Odyssey. The story of Homer\u2019s Odyssey is that of a heroic and imaginary voyage. It is analogous to the expansion and evolution of our language: the magical journey of the French language throughout the world for millennia.<\/p>\n

COULEURS was conceived and created during an artist res-idency in the region of Solesmes, in the north of France, during March 2019. The theme around this series of paint-ings was to make a visual analogy between francophones throughout the world and the various species of trees that exist in nature<\/p>\n

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BIOGRAPHIE<\/p>\n

Rebecca Belliveau est une artiste de la r\u00e9gion de Moncton, N.-B. Elle a compl\u00e9t\u00e9 son Baccalaur\u00e9at en arts visuels \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Moncton et a compl\u00e9ment\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes en art contemporain \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. Elle a obtenu des bourses des Arts du Nouveau-Brunswick dans les cat\u00e9gories de cr\u00e9ation (2012) et de perfectionnement professionnel (2019). Ses sp\u00e9cialisations lors de ses \u00e9tudes furent la photographie et la peinture. Elle d\u00e9velop pa sa propre approche technique mixtes int\u00e9grant ces deux formes d\u2019art afin de cr\u00e9er des tableaux dans un style unique.<\/p>\n

Depuis 2010, elle a expos\u00e9 ses tableaux dans des galeries d\u2019art au Nouveau-Brunswick, Nouvelle-Ecosse, aux Etats-Unis et en France. Ses peintures font partie de plusieurs collections publiques et priv\u00e9es.<\/p>\n

Elle est membre de l\u2019Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB) et le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC). Elle f\u00fct nomin\u00e9e Pr\u00e9sidente de la Galerie 12 au Centre culturel Aberdeen \u00e0 Moncton en 2019. Elle est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Culturelle Kent-Sud (Bouctouche, N.-B.) et Apple Art Gallery (Moncton. N.-B.). Depuis 2015, Rebecca Belliveau a offert des pr\u00e9sentations et des ateliers de sa d\u00e9marche artistique aux adultes et aux groupes scolaires au Canada et en France.<\/p>\n

BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Rebecca Belliveau is an artist living in Moncton, NB. She completed her Bachelor\u2019s degree in visual arts at the Universit\u00e9 de Moncton and continued her studies in contempo-rary art at Concordia University in Montreal. She was awarded a New Brunswick Arts Grant in Creation (2012) and Professional Development (2019).<\/p>\n

During her studies, she specialized in photography and painting. She developed her own technical approach integrating these two art forms to create mixed-media paintings in a unique style.Since 2010, she has exhibited her work in art galleries in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the United States and France. Her paintings are part of many public and private collections.<\/p>\n

She is a member of the Acadian Association of Professional Artists (AAAPNB) and the Canadian Artists\u2019 Front (CARFAC). In 2019, she was nominated as President of Galerie 12 at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton, NB. She is represented by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Culturelle de Kent-Sud (Bouctouche, NB) and Apple Art Gallery (Moncton, NB). Since 2015, Rebecca Belliveau has done presentations and workshops of her artistic approach to adults and students in both Canada and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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