Presentation of the work:

Petits spectres VI, 2022,
Acrylic paint on canvas
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 91.4 x 76.2 cm
Estimated value $8,900

Presentation of the artist:

François Lacasse lives and works in Montreal, where he has been developing a rigorous and evolving painting practice since 1992. His approach initially focused on issues related to the image, exploring the tension between the visible and the legible through processes of fragmentation and layering. This early work, centered on the withdrawal of the image, questioned vision as an activity and reading as an experience.

Around the early 2000s, his attention shifted to the physical qualities of materials, with a strong interest in color and its behavior. The varying consistencies of colored liquid, the gestures of application, and the effects of gravity began to structure his paintings. Around 2010, the introduction of oil paint allowed for the development of new protocols, where imprinting techniques and the precision of drawing played a central role. Since 2014, he has returned to acrylic, encouraging flows and random reactions between pigments and fluids. This recent work gives greater space to chance and material phenomena, revealing a poetics of fluid mechanics.

François Lacasse holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he taught from 2001 to 2016. An active member of Galerie B-312 since 1992, he served as assistant director and then co-director between 1998 and 2001. His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at Galerie René Blouin (Montreal) since the early 2000s, as well as in group and duo exhibitions, notably at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée régional de Rimouski, and more recently at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides in Saint-Jérôme.

In 2002, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal dedicated a survey exhibition to his work, covering ten years of research. In 2009, the Musée d’art de Joliette presented Les déversements, a retrospective exhibition that later toured to Halifax (Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery), Kingston (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University), and Calgary (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design). He is currently represented by Galerie Blouin/Division.

https://www.blouin-division.com/fr/artists/francois-lacasse

The artiste and Plein sud:

François Lacasse presented the exhibition De quelques humeurs at Plein sud from May 22 to June 17, 2001, accompanied by a publication in the form of a folded brochure.

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