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Elmyna

Winner of the Monique and Robert Parizeau
November 2003

by Denise Pelletier

(DP) - Elmyna Bouchard, an artist originally from Lac-Saint-Jean who works in the field of printmaking, is the winner of the 2003 Prix de la Fondation Monique et Robert Parizeau. Launched in 2002 in partnership with the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, invited competition aims to provide support to artists working in the field of printmaking in Quebec. Contest 2003 invite artists under forty years old with a solid path.
Foundation Monique and Robert Parizeau Bouchard Elmyna delivered to an amount of $ 50 000, distributed as follows: a grant of $ 20 000 from the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, a sum of 15,000 U.S. dollars intended for the purchase of prints from the winner by the museum's acquisition committee, and an amount of $ 15 000 for the Museum to produce a book on the work of the winner, published in French, with translations in English and English.
The launch of the publication on the work of Ludmila Armata, first winner of the Prix de la Fondation Monique et Robert Parizeau in 2002, was also performed at the awards ceremony 2003.
Born in 1965 at Holy Heart of Mary, Elmyna Bouchard received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. Winner of the Biennial of drawing, printmaking and paper Quebec (Alma, 2001), the International Biennial of contemporary printmaking Trois-Rivières (2001) and printmaking competition Loto-Quebec (2000), she has to her credit many solo exhibitions, including most recently "From time to self II" at Galerie Madeleine Lacerte in Quebec and "Prints", Galerie La Digue in Marseille. She also participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada and Europe, and many of his works are in numerous collections such as the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Loto-Quebec, Alcan. She now lives in Montreal.
With his most recent Elmyna Bouchard holds - as explained in art historian Hedwig Asselin in 2001 - "memories of his childhood in a small way, with signs of great simplicity . Without apparent order, the objects hover in the air, absolutely free (and) plan to a sense of passage of time and personal history of a place. "
Elmyna Bouchard also demonstrated great technical expertise, employing as many as three different techniques of printmaking to a single work.

Brown With Purple Highlights

Richard Bouchard Déraps

humor applied to serious subjects


September 2003 by Denise Pelletier

(DP) - The states of humor rather than emotional: this is what Richard Déraps wants to convey through his illustrations populated by grotesque or wacky. Through his drawings often garish colors, accented with objects glued or juxtaposed such as winks accomplices, he delivers his sarcastic comments on various topics of interest or concern.
subjects of reflection, the professor in advertising program Art and Media Technology at the Cégep de Jonquière not lacking. And he wants to address all these issues, even the most serious in a humorous angle. The humor is his guidance, his views on man and his contradictions on the tragedies of the world and the quirks of everyday life. It could be, in some cases, a breastplate, a defense system against the aberrations of history and society.
the Arts Centre and culture of Chicoutimi, Richard Déraps us do the "tour of" this exhibition he presents until 28 September. It is divided into two parts: one part of the promotional posters of the Book Fair in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and the competition player, reader of the year, conducted between 1995 and 2001. In this case, the comic effect is obtained by taking the subject at face value.

other hand, Richard Déraps presents 26 original illustrations drawn over the last ten years, more oriented towards sarcasm and black humor. Many are fortified with collages scenic elements in three dimensions, and even graffiti written directly on the wall of the showroom. For example, real badminton accompany the drawing titled "Jesus Judas 16-3" and real small Christmas lights illuminate the drawing titled "Red Nose." His "zebra Lancelot is a knight riding a zebra and whose lance is a pencil. "The red button is strapped with a protection system like those found in museums. Additional guarantee of safety: four real mouse traps, attached to the four corners of the frame! In "The little smoke" an adult's hand shakes a cigarette ash over the head of a child. "Hijacking" is set to "Provisouère" the thief is a child who orders the cashier: "Envoy cash, an 8 / 49, two honeymoons, worse way to tell my mother!" A recipe "Roast pork with yellow orange bed roll," an illustration of a stay Olach (Old Orchard), a frog who eats books: all examples hung by the artist in this thread that is essential for him humor. Richard
Déraps designs colorful characters, bizarre, with members or parts body borrowed from other animals or objects (heroes who have books in place of the head, for example, or the man who flies a language extension to swallow a fly). Edentulous or otherwise "full of teeth, fortunate in red tongues, sharp, dressed in a pale skin, wrinkled like a plucked chicken," My little men are not beautiful, "also recognizes the artist willingly but according to him, their very strangeness is likely to render endearing.
BD and freedom
The design is a space of freedom where Richard let Déraps free rein to creativity. The original idea is often born of a word or combination of words: the written text, either a title or registration in the same drawing, plays an important role in its creation as advertising. Then he likes to explore this word, this idea, using simple techniques and varied colored pencils, wax, felt, pastel, airbrush, collage. And computer graphics, usually reserved for touch. His works
colorful and disparate course similar to comics, he is a loyal reader. He said he was at school "the Category-a-brac, the French cartoonist Marcel Gotlib" That's my kind of humor. " He loved the Croc review at the time, and appreciates the art of illustrator Vittorio, who designed such that little guy's Green Festival Juste pour rire. He also admires the style of the painter Arthur Villeneuve, close enough to the comic in some aspects.