Laurence Belzile

Galerie AVE, Montréal (QC)

2019

From September 12 to October 16, 2019, Galerie AVE in Montreal presented the exhibition “Arracher le rouge du jaune” by artist Laurence Belzile.

The artist favors abstraction for the sense of incomprehension it produces and for the questioning this mode of creation generates. She primarily creates works that present modeled conceptions of non-existent forms. These forms develop within an organic framework, where the use of line is evocative. Among the many disparate elements that may constitute a work, only a few are brought forward in order to privilege simplicity.

Each work bears witness to a single moment: an instant in the painting that may elude our initial perception. These are the sections that disrupt the rigidity of a form or slow the momentum of a gesture. They emerge through certain brushstrokes that break the straightness of a line, or through marks that stop abruptly just before exhausting themselves. All of these precise moments detach themselves from the work to evoke both hardness and fragility; intensity and softness; tension and release: gestures embedded in the painting and in what they propose.