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Those Who Came Before Us – Edmond Léger

March 31, 2023 - June 23, 2023

Free

“Those Who Came Before Us”

Solo Exhibition / exposition solo

Edmond Léger

 March 31, 2023 to June 23, 2023

31 mars au 23 juin 2023

 

“Thunderbird”

Acrylic on Canvas,

44” x 66” x 1.5”

Photo accreditation: Edmond Léger

 

347 rue Preston Street,

Ottawa, Ontario

 

For inquiries on pricing please contact the artist.

 

The Impasto series

 

This series of paintings are about texture and light. Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint and/or moulding paste is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers. This series allowed me to see, not only how light reacted to the texture but more importantly how shadows were created. I noticed that depending on the placement of the viewer they both dance and work together. The impasto series is ultimately about my light and shadow exposed with colour and texture.

 

Artist statement

 

Music has been an emotion that I have nurtured all my life. There has always been a duality in my music. First, there is the mathematical grammar that allows me to join notes together to achieve a logical sequence. Second, there is the unexplainable connection that comes when the grammar evolves into a discussion of thoughts, a sense of being.

 

Being mostly self-taught as far as my music and painting is concerned, I continue to discuss these thoughts with my abstracts. They’re is always a rhythm that occurs while I paint. Musical notes appear as if I would be writing a score, playing the grammar on my canvas. Improvisation allows the logical to become liberated.

 

Music is a bridge that we have been exploring for thousands of years. This bridge between knowing and understanding is what I try to achieve with colour. It is not the need to do that I wish to explore but more the need to feel this connection, share my music in a most intimate way. My paintings are a reflection of my improvisation, my connection with the unexplainable and the grammar. This place that I understand without being able to explain it but rather not having the need to…

www.edmondleger.com

Details

Start:
March 31, 2023
End:
June 23, 2023
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Ottawa School of Art

Venue

Preston Square
347 Preston St. tower 3, second level
ottawa, On K1S3H8 Canada
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