Eric saved
Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
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's work Eric Sauve often takes as its starting point the collection / accumulation of dirt or artifacts he transforms, manipulates, reassembles. For this project, he takes material as the graffiti tags he identified in the streets of Montreal. Always interested to orchestrate or enlarging areas ambivalence, the artist is challenged by the dual desire for anonymity and renowned graffiti artists, vandals and some other virtuoso.
In this project, it handles tags as ornament, in monochrome white recalling the elegance of narrow silk tapestries, emphasizing the finesse calligraphic signatures and sanitized.
Eric Sauve lives in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and art centers in Canada, Spain and France. Among the public places he has invested so ephemeral and permanent include the Chateau de Tours, France, Calgary Theatre Junction, the Orford Arts Centre, Theatre Usine C and the Esplanade at Place des Arts in Montreal .
Eric Sauvé
The work of Eric Sauvé often takes as its starting point the collection and accumulation of artifacts and residual objects which he subsequently transforms, manipulates and reassembles. For the present project, he has taken as his raw material the tags of graffiti writers which he has gathered from the streets of Montreal. Always intent on orchestrating or accentuating zones of ambivalence, the artist is intrigued by the two-fold desire for anonymity and fame exhibited by graffiti artists, considered vandals by some and virtuosos by others.
In this project, he portrays tags as ornamentals motifs, in white monochrome recalling the restrained elegance of silk tapestries and revealing the subtle calligraphy of these sanitized signatures.
Eric Sauvé lives in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and art centers in Canada, Spain and France and has-been installed, and Permanently Both ephemerally, in public spaces Such As The Castle Tours in France, in Calgary Theatre Junction, the Arts Center in Orford, & the Esplanade Theatre Usine C and at Place des arts.
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