After twenty years of working within abstraction, I shifted focus and spent a decade looking into and researching the concept of landscape. I wanted to look at my practice with a more figurative approach and with a more precise thematic. Three themes emerged from this research: the landscape as an imaginary space, the site-specific landscape and the iconography that emerged from and belongs to the representation of landscape through the history of low and high art.

Without disregarding these new discourses, I am revisiting the formal concerns of my past research. From these two explorations of my practice, I'm taking what I think characterizes their strongest components and combining them: the juxtaposition of painting and photography, the idea of fullness and emptiness, and lastly, the cut-out, which I was using in my work on landscapes. Finally, a series of drawings and the construction of a vocabulary made out of plaster are transposing the work toward the three-dimensional.

Biography

Luc Bergeron was born in Jonquière and was awarded a Bachelor's degree in fine arts by Concordia University. He went on to complete his training by studying fresco techniques in Paris. He has received financial assistance from the Québec government and the Canada Arts Council, and has exhibited throughout Canada and on several occasions in Europe. In 1986 he was invited to take part in the Symposium of young Canadian painters in Baie-Saint-Paul, and in 2000 participated in the Mer Océane event held in the Magdalene Islands. In addition to his painting, Luc Bergeron has designed scenery for several theatrical productions. Since 1987, he has been a member of the board of directors of the Galerie Occurrence in Montréal. His works are found in many different public and private collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Centre des arts de Baie-Saint-Paul, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Musée de Lachine.

Artist e-mail: l.bergeron@videotron.qc.ca