Michel de Broin’s Triste Entropique

The public works of Michel de Broin are well known in Montreal, but his newest work, on solo exhibition in Toronto, are a revealing look at how he interprets today’s exhausting world.

These human like figure entwined with industrial elements are from the exhibition Triste Entropique, de Broin’s series of new sculptures and image-based works that “stand as monuments to a dissipated world. Idols of exhaust, of exhaustion, they condense aethereal flux into mineral form.”

 

One might envision the works of Triste Entropique as though they were antiquities unearthed from the archaeological site of an extinct civilization whose demise we must infer. Perhaps these remnants enshrine the material decadence and infrastructural insufficiency that facilitated that civilization’s cultural demise – essay accompanying the exhibition

Based in Montreal and Paris, de Broin’s work has been widely exhibited and frequently awarded. See the list of his exhibitions and commissions in this profile at Blouin Division, which represents him.

The title of the exhibition “Triste entropique” is a French phrase that translates to “Sad Entropic” or “Sad Entropy” in English. The phrase combines emotional melancholy (“triste”) with the scientific concept of disorder and decay (“entropique”).

Images are installation views from Blouin Division Toronto and Montreal.

Michel de Broin’s website, here.

About Michel de Broin’s public works in Montreal, here.

At the National Gallery of Canada, here.