EXHIBITIONS
Marie Landry
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Career
Marie Landry began her artistic career by completing Visual Arts certificate at UQAM in 1992. This allowed her to explore with different mediums and it was at this point that she clarified her interest in sculpture. She particularly appreciates the contact with the material, its malleability as its resistance, its color and its texture. She likes working in three dimensions. Especially the technique she uses with the stone which consists in removing material to create a piece.
In 2005, she joined a studio with the aim of perfecting herself, where she created a piece with other professional sculptors. Now a member of several associations, including the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec and the Association des sculpteurs sur pierre, she is delighted with the wealth of exchanges she maintains with other members.
“Weighing the aesthetics of the forms, while respecting the matter in its essence”
Over the years, her style changed a lot. She started doing figurative art pieces, characters, birds, with a very realistic aspect. Then, over time, her approach became much more imprecise, and it created forms reminiscent of the head of a bird, which quickly became her signature. When she feels the urge, she finds herself in the workshop.
The challenge consists in weighing the aesthetics and the harmony of the forms, while respecting the matter in its essence. She feels well anchored in shapes that the stone proposes. In an instinctive impulse, she cuts her stone, then the sandblasting stage reveals the art piece’s beauty. At that moment, the stone takes on its colours and Marie polishes it skillfully.
Artistic approach
Inspiration
For Marie Landry, inspiration must come right from the start. If the stone does not “speak” to her, she rotates it in every way, trying to make it reveal a forgotten facet, an unnoticed detail. The richness and diversity of colors and textures of stones from all over the world inspire her enormously.
Exhibition
Marie Landry is presenting several pieces at the Beaulne Museum during the exhibition La pierre et moi… au Musée. The one depicted here is carved from alabaster stone from Italy, and is called Pourparlers. Liberated from the depths where it was formed for thousands of years, this stone ended up in the hands of an African who transformed it into a great character. Having found a new home in Quebec, the stone began a long journey during which it was unfortunately damaged and broken into several pieces. The African character belonging to a friend of Mary, she offered the sculptor to give a new life to one of the recovered pieces. She sculpted its organic curves, strongly inspired by the original shapes and colors of the stone. Maybe one day another artist will transform it again, who knows?
La pierre et moi…au Musée is a collective exhibition of stone sculptors Marie Landry, Jacques Bénard, Louise Godin Drolet, Lise Gagnon, Lise Deschâtelets, Jean-Paul Bertrand, Alain Dionne and Jean-Pierre Huot.
Attend the exhibition
The exhibition takes place from July 4 to September 5 at the Museum. Hurry up and get tickets! Come see the works of the stone sculptors.
Exhibit to come