Simon Bertand writes the Bible.

From the 23 October to the 21 of November, the UQAM gallery offers two exhibitions.

The first floor houses the young Quebec artist Simon Bertrand. He presents pieces of art not finished yet, or, more accurately, he presents works in progress. For him, the creative process is part and parcel of art. So when you’ll come to the gallery, you’ll have a chance to meet Simon Bertrand. He will continue every day, little by little, to work. It gives you the opportunity to see an artist at work and meet him (do not be shy, he is very friendly). The gallery becomes his workshop. He has divided it into three stations of exercises that gives its title to the exhibition “assembler, dessiner, transcire” (to assemble, to draw, to transcribe):

- The transcription station where, ballpoint pen in hand, he copies the Bible, words to words on a large canvas. On the opening day, the top of the canvas was completed but he still has much to transcribe.
- The station “draw” is to draw a perfect circle of a meter in diameter. To achieve this goal, Simon Bertrand will practice and repeat the gesture every day.
- The assembly station, the artist uses a lot of stuff picked up from right to left and made assemblies, small sculptures, to exhaust its heap.

The second floor of the gallery is dedicated to Oscar Munoz. Munoz also thinks the process in art is significant. The exhibition is called “Traces of a fading memory”.

Oscar Munoz is a Colombian artist famous in his country and well known all over the world. His exhibition occupies an entire room of the Galerie de l’UQAM. It’s a small retrospective of his work. His pieces of art are very moving, melancholic, whose theme are often the memory and loss. For example, in this video : re/trato – Oscar Munoz , where he painted portraits directly on the ground. But his brushes are dipped in water so that the lines disappear almost as fast as they are making. The portrait has to be painted over again continuously.

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