THE RIFT EXHIBITION CENTER – STREAMER IN VISUAL ARTS

THE RIFT EXHIBITION CENTER – STREAMER IN VISUAL ARTS

The Center d’exposition du Rift is a center for the dissemination of contemporary arts that presents the works of professional artists from all over Quebec and elsewhere. The Rift offers educational activities to school and community groups with the objectives of developing skills and implementing the arts as a mode of expression. Workshops, courses and conferences are offered to the general public in a context of cultural mediation to highlight the work and approach of artists. The exhibitions presented are aimed at all ages and the place is set up to receive a family clientele.

In even years, it presents the International Miniature Art Biennial, an exhibition of 500 small-format works from around twenty countries, in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. The 16th edition will take place from June to September 2024.

Summer exhibitions from June 23 to September 2, 2023:

Rose-Aimee Belanger | From sandstone to bronze: 40 years of sculptures
Collection of the MA Art Museum of Rouyn-Noranda
This exhibition attempts, through sketchbooks, clay sketches, photos of works now scattered to the four winds, and, of course, numerous sandstone and bronze sculptures, to bring out the realities of two Témiscamingues, which Rose-Aimée Bélanger encapsulated in a prolific work, which would have nearly a thousand pieces. The visitor enters the artist's rich universe through his mature works, works in bronze whose main character is a kind of Madonna, incarnated and joyful, who chooses to sink his teeth into the pleasures offers life, at the turn of a busy day. Born in 1923 in the Témiscamingue region of Quebec, in Guérin, Rose-Aimée Morin built her work in Earlton, in the Témiscamingue region of Ontario. A late sculptor, she devoted herself entirely to her passion from her fifties onwards for more than 40 years.

Andre Lemire | The Museum of the Incomplete
The museum of the incomplete stages a gallery of sculptures which represent fragile, incomplete and partially dysfunctional mechanized portraits. A series of paper and cardboard automatons, mounted on furniture and displays, creaking but animated, activated remotely by the visitor or moving at their own pace. It is a reflection on what we do not finish, on the time that sometimes stops at the wrong time, on the imperfect progress of everything.

André Lemire has a bachelor's degree in arts and design - visual arts concentration from the University of Quebec in Outaouais. A grant holder from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, he has exhibited his works on many occasions in Quebec and Manitoba. Farmer, mover, circus technician, construction estimator, André Lemire would also have liked to be an archaeologist or a journalist, but as he had to make a choice, he made the choice to be above all an artist.