Quebec artist Paul Béliveau paints culturally significant artifacts such as his own book collection, creating ‘pictorial archeology’ in work that references a database of thousands of personal and historical photographs.
Béliveau says, “I like to use painted books as a strategy against loss, even though worn books evoke the passage of time and reveal one’s own finiteness.” –Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Béliveau’s website, here.
More about the artist, here.
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, here.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, here.
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I like it. Paul makes me want to judge books by their covers. Clever!
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Great comment. Love it.
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Canadian Bright Light… I went to Windsor Gallery site and it rolled through some shots of these on the wall – they are beautiful big..
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And I also love his colors, thanks.
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interesting combinations….good portraits of culture read!!
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I agree on the combinations. Very creative, kind of little cultural portraits, aren’t they?
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Interesting; not sure how I feel about this as art, and I always welcome feeling unsure as a kind of portal into wider vision…so, thank you! Certainly, Mr. Beliveau is making choices regarding color, theme, design, and it’s intriguing.
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I’m with you on the uncertainty. And I probably did his talent a disservice by just posting the book-literary works. He certainly does other wonderful work. But I was taken by the precision/reality of these.
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