This book is the result of an editorial residency at Centre SAGAMIE artist Bruno Santerre from Rimouski. This creative stay allowed him to develop two new photographic projects entitled L’Atelier en déplacement (The Workshop on the Move) and L’Atelier en retrait (The Workshop in Retreat), accompanied by an essay by Laurier Lacroix. As a starting point for this publishing project, Santerre worked in the light of two artists who, like him, used light in their visual art research. He moved his studio to Paris, Amsterdam, and Delft, to the places where Brancusi and Vermeer lived, in order to take a series of photographs in and around their studios. In order to contextualize the process that led to the creation of these new series of works, Pierre Rannou discusses, in the first part of the book, three solo exhibitions by Santerre, in which the notions of studio and gallery merge and invite the viewer to participate in the construction of the gaze.
The Shifting Studio
Bruno Santerre
Bruno Santerre lives and works in Rimouski, Quebec. His recent solo exhibitions include Dans la lumière de l’atelier (en déplacement) at the Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague, Carleton (2009), Dans la lumière at the Centre national d’exposition, Jonquière (2009), Dans la lumière de l’atelier (nuages et ombres blanches) at Circa, Montreal (2007); Dans la lumière de l’atelier, tracer le rebord des nuages at Plein sud, Longueuil (2006); Dans l’atelier de Palomar at Occurrence, Montreal (2004); Voir, savoir et croire(with Laurie Walker), at the Musée régional de Rimouski (1997). Since 1982, his work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, notably in France at the Galerie Calibre 33 and the Villa Arson (Nice); at the Librairie du Québec (Paris); at the University of Metz; at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy; and in Canada at Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton); Pitt International Gallery (Vancouver); Musée national des Beaux-arts du Québec; Musée d’art de Joliette; Musée régional de Rimouski; Galerie Trois Points, Skol, and Circa (Montreal). He also participated in the National Biennial of Contemporary Sculpture in Trois-Rivières (2004) and the International Symposium of In Situ Art Lumières, réflexion de l’insondable, at the Musée régional de Rimouski (2003). He earned a master's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1988 and was accepted as an artist in residence at the Centre d'artistes Vaste et Vague in Carleton, Quebec; the Centre Sagamie in Alma, Quebec; the Villa Arson in Nice, France; and the Centro internazionale di sperimentationi artistiche in Boissano, Italy. His works have accompanied poetry collections by Paul Chanel Malenfant and André Gervais published by Éditions du Noroît, and he has produced an artist's book with André Gervais, Le poète intervalii dans la variante amoureuse, published in 1996 by Éditions Roselin. Recipient of the 2008 Prix à la création artistique (Bas-Saint-Laurent region) from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bruno Santerre has created several works of art integrated into architecture in Quebec. His works are part of several public and private collections in Canada.
