Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin (* 1970 in Montreal ) is a Canadian sculptor . His works mainly include abstract sculptures, but he also creates video installations, drawings, photographs and works of art from found objects. They are in Canada and in many cities in Europe . 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 UQÀM , where he graduated in 1997 with a degree in plastic art. His career as an artist began in his hometown. His first major retrospective took place in 2002 in the Villa Merkel in Esslingen am Neckar , Germany. Between 2005 and 2010 de Broin lived and worked in Paris and Berlin . In 2011 he returned to Montreal.
Many well-known art museums have since bought his works, including 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 Montréal (Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal) , the Museum of Contemporary Art 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. He deals with questions about the limits of social and technical systems. He almost always allows humor and something playful to flow into his works, as well as critical. Recurring themes in his art objects are energy and mechanical resistance . Many objects emerged from the misappropriation of familiar objects and forms, they show the inherent paradoxes . Concept art is a source of inspiration for Michel de Broin. For his series Dangerous Substance in 1999, for example, he took inspiration from Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square on a White Background . His credo is: "Art must always represent an unfinished project, a permanent revolution".
Work overview (selection)
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Shared Propulsion Car (free Powered Car)
The artwork is an old car, whose engine was replaced by a pedal system. It was shown first at Exit Art in New York City , then in Toronto at the Dealers' Association. - 2004: Superficial (surface): In the forest of the Vosges in Alsace, de Broin recreated the contour of a large stone with thin mirror foils. It was an invitation to artists to reflect on transparency.
- Black Whole Conference (Total Black Conference) is a sculpture of spherically arranged metal chairs welded together. It is part of a collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Val-de-Marne department .
- 2008: Overflow was presented on the White Night in Toronto. It is shaped like a waterfall blowing up over a house window.
- 2009: La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel (Lady of the Eiffel Tower ) was created for the White Night in Paris. The sculpture is a huge disco ball made of 1000 mirrors. It was erected on the roof of the French embassy using a crane. With its size, it made it into the Guinness Book of Records .
- 2010: A loop of a 16 mm film with the title: One Hundred Paces (hundreds of steps)
- 2011: Majestic . That was an additional project at the New Orleans Bienale. It was created from street lamps that were overturned by Hurricane Katrina . The lanterns were put together in the shape of a star at the foot ends. Art patrons Donald and Beth Sobey acquired the work and donated it to the National Gallery of Canada .
- 2012: Majestic , a large sculpture permanently installed in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
- 2013: Michel de Broin: Cities of Light (cities of light)
Art in public space
- 2003: Révolutions (Revolutions) is a spiral staircase that was erected during the renovation of Papineau Metro Station in Montreal
- 2009: Monument ; the sculpture was installed in a park in the city of Winnipeg . It reinterprets the classic theme of "curtains": two ghosts stand on a round piece of lawn and are covered with a large cloth.
- 2009: L'Arc (The Arch), monument in honor of Salvador Allende , erected on the île Notre-Dame in Montreal
- 2010: Revolutions ; Redesign of the theme for the Jacobin monastery in Rennes , France. The plant was permanently installed there.
- 2014: More light . Competition winner for 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 attached to two opposite parts of the building. The “lantern star” will be installed and illuminated around the summer of 2014. The metalwork was transferred to the Berlin company Fittkau Metallbau und Kunstschmiede .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2013: Solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art de Montreal
- 2012: Oh Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCa), USA, Adams
- 2011: Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am (Fetish car. I drive so I am.) In the Museum Tinguely , Basel , Switzerland
- Parking de sculptures (parking of sculptures) in Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers , France,
- 2009: La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel (The Maitresse of the Eiffel Tower )
- 2008: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed (nothing is lost, nothing was created, everything is changed) was the motto of the group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal (based on an essay by Antoine Lavoisier ),
- Énergie Reciproque (reciprocal energy) in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne , Vitry-sur-Seine , France
- Nuit Blanche (White Night), Toronto, Canada
- Acclimatation (activities) in the Center d'art Villa Arson, Nice , France,
- 2007: De-construction (De-construction) in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- Machinations at UQAM Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 2006: Machinations at the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, Canada
- Reverse Entropy (reverse entropy ) in Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
- Réparations (reparations), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 2003: Damage Control , Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto
- 2002: Épater la Galerie ( showmanship ) in the Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar
Awards
The University of Quebec and Montréal (UQAM) awarded him the Prix Reconnaissance UQAM in 2006. In 2007 he received the international Sobey Art Award .
literature
- Mark Lanctôt, Daniel Sherer: Michel de Broin. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2013, ISBN 978-2-551-25379-1 . (English France)
- Bernard Lamarche: Michel de Broin: A Logic of Being Against? Parachute, 2004. ( summary )
Web links
Commons : Michel de Broin - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Dangerous Substance
- ^ Shared Propulsion Car
- ↑ Superficial on artnews.org ; accessed on January 23, 2014.
- ^ Black Whole Conference
- ↑ View of the work of art Black Whole Conference , which was shown in the Berlinische Galerie in 2007 Exhibition Neue Heimat ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on January 23, 2014.
- ↑ Overflow
- ↑ La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel
- ↑ a b Works by Michel de Broin on artinamericamagazine.com ; accessed on January 23, 2014.
- ↑ Majestic ; Philanthropists donate Michel de Broin sculpture Majestic to National Gallery of Canada [1]
- ↑ Majestic
- ↑ Michel de Broin: Cities of Light , Canadian Art Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Revolutions
- ↑ Monument
- ↑ L'Arc
- ↑ More light ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ More light at www.fittkau-metallbau.de ; accessed on January 23, 2014.
- ↑ Solo show ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Oh Canada ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Parking de sculptures
- ↑ La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel
- ↑ Disruption from Within ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
- ↑ Énergie Reciproque
- ↑ Nuit Blanche
- ↑ Acclimatation ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ De-construction
- ↑ Machinations
- ↑ Michel de Broin; Machinations ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reverse Entropy
- ↑ Damage Control ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Épater la Galerie
- ↑ uqam.ca ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on January 23, 2014.
- ^ Discover must-know artists from across Canada, Michel de broin. Canadian art. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broin, Michel de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec, Canada |