19.11.2021 au 13.02.2022
La 5e Biennale internationale d’art numérique (BIAN), organisée par ELEKTRA
Arsenal Montreal
2021.05.08 - 2021.06.07
Ruhr Ding: Climate
Urbane Künste Ruhr, Allemagne
2020.02.09 - 2020.08.30
La main du magicien dans la froide lumière du jour
Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Canada
2020.06.25 - 2020.11.08
Zero Emission
Museum Leipzig, Allemagne
2020.03.17
Courant Vert
Espace EDF, Paris
2020.02.11 - 2020.05.12
Thresholds
Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada
2019.10.31 - 2019.12.08
Montréal ~ Habana : Rencontres en art actuel / Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo
La Havane, Cuba
2019.09.09
Poetry Lies In Between
CityLeaks Festival Center, Cologne, Allemagne
2019.05.20 - 2019.05.24
CoExistence
2019 ICRA-X Robotic Art Program, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Canada
2019.06.04 - 2019.07.13
Révolution
Biennale d’architecture et de paysage Versailles, Paris
2019.03.08 - 2019.04.13
Salle des maquettes
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal
2019.02.07 - 2019.05.18
Bonne conduite
Angoulême, France (FRAC Poitou-Charentes)
2019.02.20 - 2019.06.09
Seuils
Âjagemô art space, Ottawa (Conseil des arts du Canada)
2018.11.02 - 2018.11.04
Man Ray, Michel de Broin, Juliette Goiffon & Charles Beauté
Artissima, Turin (Galerie Eva Meyer)
2018.10.20 - Work in progress
Deviations
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
2018.09.13 - 2018.11.17
La conduite des conduites
Galerie Division, Montreal
2018.07.07 - 2018.08.12
Natura Loci
Magasin Général, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine Magasin Général, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
2018.03.26
Michel de Broin & Kim Gerdes – Machines organiques, machines textuelles
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2018.03.08 - 2018.04.17
Affinités électives
Galerie Division, Montréal
2017.08.17 - 2017.10.15
Seuils
KM3 - Un événement d'art public, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal
ARCHIVES DE NOUVELLES

2016.10.16 – 2016.12.25
Ceci et Cela
Division gallery Toronto

« An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a noumenal relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, it seems we must learn to thread a newly demarcated, yet unknowable, realm filled with objects personified, openly at play.

For the past two decades Michel de Broin has set up his studio in this shadowy world where objects and their social dramas are chief actors. While our current moment asks us to imagine the inanimate personified, de Broin has been doling out objects that lay bare their machinations over the course of his prolific career. These sculptures do not go so far as to dance on their own, much like Marx described the fetishized commodity doing, but their plastic, metal, painted shells certainly cannot contain their forms. Performing beyond their expected function, albeit poorly at times, these unsuspecting cousins demand a longer consideration than those objects bound to their meaning. In tour de force a tire wrapped into a concentric knot cannot power any motor vehicle, while no less recalling the immense and unknowable force of a black hole.

This and That’s accretion and accumulation of images and objects belies the vertical thrust of possession. Everywhere we turn a non-systemic torrent of relations is at play, connecting objects in an indeterminate network, one that bridges de Broin’s career from past to present. This uncanny field where objects are in conversation, confronting one another through a shared language of dysfunctionality, is one carved by alternative paths to meaning and value. »

Loreta Lamargese

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Blowback, 2013, Acier, 10m x 4m x 4m

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Core, 2016, Forton, bois, peinture, cire, aluminum

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Ceci et cela, 2016, Cyanotype

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Tête, 2016, Forton peint à l’aluminium, bois peint

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Moon Watcher, 2016, Forton, fibre de verre, phares, cadre en aluminium

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Drunkated I, II & III, 2016, Bronze

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Étant Donnés, 2013, Évier, tuyeau de plomberie, eau, gaz propane

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May Be, 2016, Aluminum, plâtre, coussin

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Ceci et cela, 2016, Objets métaliques thermoformés, panneau de bois

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Combat de chien, 2014, Ciment, polymères, agrégats, fibre de nylon, structure en acier

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Espèces en voie de disparition, 2016, Forton, bois, cire, acier, feuille d’or

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Sandbank, 2016, Boîte lumineuse

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Logged On, 2015, Bûche de bois, Aimant magnétique, ampoule néon, poteau en acier