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MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
MEHR LICHT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Mehr Licht Street lights, steel structure, 14 x 16 x 17 m Kunst-am-Bau Wettbewerb für den Deutschen Bundestag, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin Suspended in the courtyard of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus building in Berlin, which contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, Mehr Licht is a new addition to the collection of the Bundestag (German DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
MEHR LICHT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Mehr Licht Street lights, steel structure, 14 x 16 x 17 m Kunst-am-Bau Wettbewerb für den Deutschen Bundestag, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin Suspended in the courtyard of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus building in Berlin, which contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, Mehr Licht is a new addition to the collection of the Bundestag (German DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
THIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island.SUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement. 290 x 523 x 475 cm. Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France. Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragments of mirror. In this play of splintered radiance, the rock REVOLUTION - MICHEL DE BROIN Revolution Steel, 8 x 5 x 6.5 m Collection Art Norac, Rennes, France With its 40 meter path, Revolution is comparable in length to a 5 story staircase. Housed in the Couvent des Jacobins, the sculpture takes its inspiration from a spiral stairway. By forming aREVOLUTIONS
Revolutions Aluminum, 500 x 500 x 850 cm Collection of the City of Montreal, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, City of Montreal This sculpture was inspired by the winding exterior staircases central to Montreal’s architectural identity. By forming a knot, the staircase deconstructs the symbolism of vertical ascension with which it is usually associated. Here, the staircase OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
INTERLUDE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlude Bronze, aluminium, glass, natural gas Interlude places a fire in the core of a remodeled television set, a tribute to it’s original domestication over 400,000 years ago. Designed for broadcasting sound and image, the television is here diverted from its primary function and transformed into a fireplace. The prefix “tele”, which means “afar”, MAKE SOCCER GREAT AGAIN Make Soccer Great Again Endless Landscape, AXENÉO7 – La Fonderie, Gatineau Invited to intervene on a soccer field for the exhibition Endless Landscape, I seized the opportunity to redefine the game’s rules, originally codified by the British in the late nineteenth century. Make Soccer Great Again assesses the bellicose nature of the battle for LA CONDUITE DES CONDUITES La conduite des conduites Galerie Division This exhibition proposes an interplay between the modeling of behaviour (the term “conduites” in french means ‘pipe’ but also ‘behaviour’ – in this case of objects or bodies) and the channeling of emotional responses, flows and energy. Using common objects – furniture, pipes, flanges, and light bulbs –DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE
Dangerous Substance Dangerous Substance is made up of several works deriving from an artistic intervention carried out in Montreal in July 1999, which consisted of driving around in a car with a massive black cube on its roof. The cube was modeled on the pictogram in traffic signage indicating that vehicles carrying dangerous substances areMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
MEHR LICHT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Mehr Licht Street lights, steel structure, 14 x 16 x 17 m Kunst-am-Bau Wettbewerb für den Deutschen Bundestag, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin Suspended in the courtyard of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus building in Berlin, which contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, Mehr Licht is a new addition to the collection of the Bundestag (German DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
MEHR LICHT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Mehr Licht Street lights, steel structure, 14 x 16 x 17 m Kunst-am-Bau Wettbewerb für den Deutschen Bundestag, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin Suspended in the courtyard of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus building in Berlin, which contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, Mehr Licht is a new addition to the collection of the Bundestag (German DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
THIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island.SUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
REVOLUTION - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Revolution Steel, 8 x 5 x 6.5 m Collection Art Norac, Rennes, France With its 40 meter path, Revolution is comparable in length to a 5 story staircase. Housed in the Couvent des Jacobins, the sculpture takes its inspiration from a spiral stairway. By forming a OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
REVOLUTIONS
Revolutions Aluminum, 500 x 500 x 850 cm Collection of the City of Montreal, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, City of Montreal This sculpture was inspired by the winding exterior staircases central to Montreal’s architectural identity. By forming a knot, the staircase deconstructs the symbolism of vertical ascension with which it is usually associated. Here, the staircase MAKE SOCCER GREAT AGAIN Make Soccer Great Again Endless Landscape, AXENÉO7 – La Fonderie, Gatineau Invited to intervene on a soccer field for the exhibition Endless Landscape, I seized the opportunity to redefine the game’s rules, originally codified by the British in the late nineteenth century. Make Soccer Great Again assesses the bellicose nature of the battle forCUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of lightDANGEROUS SUBSTANCE
Dangerous Substance Dangerous Substance is made up of several works deriving from an artistic intervention carried out in Montreal in July 1999, which consisted of driving around in a car with a massive black cube on its roof. The cube was modeled on the pictogram in traffic signage indicating that vehicles carrying dangerous substances are LA CONDUITE DES CONDUITES La conduite des conduites Galerie Division This exhibition proposes an interplay between the modeling of behaviour (the term “conduites” in french means ‘pipe’ but also ‘behaviour’ – in this case of objects or bodies) and the channeling of emotional responses, flows and energy. Using common objects – furniture, pipes, flanges, and light bulbs –MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
CUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of lightMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above theSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
CUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of lightTHIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island. REVOLUTION - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Revolution Steel, 8 x 5 x 6.5 m Collection Art Norac, Rennes, France With its 40 meter path, Revolution is comparable in length to a 5 story staircase. Housed in the Couvent des Jacobins, the sculpture takes its inspiration from a spiral stairway. By forming aSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
LUSTRE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Lustre C-print, 115 x 75 cm Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gant (Belgium) The project consists of digging out lampposts along the street to form a gigantic chandelier suspended in the sky by a crane. At the end of the day, the crane operator hoists up the chandelier. Whilst the construction workers sleep, the Chandelier illuminates thenight.
REVOLUTIONS
Revolutions Aluminum, 500 x 500 x 850 cm Collection of the City of Montreal, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, City of Montreal This sculpture was inspired by the winding exterior staircases central to Montreal’s architectural identity. By forming a knot, the staircase deconstructs the symbolism of vertical ascension with which it is usually associated. Here, the staircase OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
INTERLUDE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlude Bronze, aluminium, glass, natural gas Interlude places a fire in the core of a remodeled television set, a tribute to it’s original domestication over 400,000 years ago. Designed for broadcasting sound and image, the television is here diverted from its primary function and transformed into a fireplace. The prefix “tele”, which means “afar”,DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE
Dangerous Substance Dangerous Substance is made up of several works deriving from an artistic intervention carried out in Montreal in July 1999, which consisted of driving around in a car with a massive black cube on its roof. The cube was modeled on the pictogram in traffic signage indicating that vehicles carrying dangerous substances are LA CONDUITE DES CONDUITES La conduite des conduites Galerie Division This exhibition proposes an interplay between the modeling of behaviour (the term “conduites” in french means ‘pipe’ but also ‘behaviour’ – in this case of objects or bodies) and the channeling of emotional responses, flows and energy. Using common objects – furniture, pipes, flanges, and light bulbs –MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et lesTHIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
SUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island. DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above the OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilité THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanicalMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et lesTHIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
SUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island. DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above the OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilité THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanicalTHIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, REVOLUTION - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Revolution Steel, 8 x 5 x 6.5 m Collection Art Norac, Rennes, France With its 40 meter path, Revolution is comparable in length to a 5 story staircase. Housed in the Couvent des Jacobins, the sculpture takes its inspiration from a spiral stairway. By forming aMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin approfondit sa pratique interdisciplinaire en développant un vocabulaire visuel en constante expansion. Son approche de la production explore les intersections entre les systèmes technologiques, biologiques et physiques. En construisant des relations imprévues entre déchets, productivité, consommation et risque, de Broin remet en question la valeur d’usage et les MONUMENT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Monument Granite, 230 x 150 x 150 cm The City of Winnipeg Collection Monument is a mystery that will never be entirely revealed. One can recognize its classical motif borrowed from the tradition of monuments but disrupted from the passivity of the academy. It announces itself as an invitation to an experience where theTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking its TORTOISE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Tortoise Brass alloy and silver brazing, 28 x 28 x 58 inches Milton Keynes Public Library, Buckinghamshire, England The sculpture Tortoise uses the existing shelter for pedestrians — the product of the great Milton Keynes (UK) city planning — as building blocks. The total lot of 300 shelters were made to protect BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference - Michel de Broin. Black Whole Conference 74 chairs, fixation system. 440 x 440 x 440 cm. Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. This installation consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere; a utopian architecture in which each element ensuresand
ENTRELACEMENT
Entrelacement Asphalt, pictogram sign, paint 27 x 16 m Canal Lachine, Montreal An additional segment extends a bicycle path along the Lachine Canal in Montreal. The design of the asphalt path is the product of an awkward gesture which, when reproduced large scale, counters the functional logic of LA CONDUITE DES CONDUITES La conduite des conduites Galerie Division This exhibition proposes an interplay between the modeling of behaviour (the term “conduites” in french means ‘pipe’ but also ‘behaviour’ – in this case of objects or bodies) and the channeling of emotional responses, flows and energy. Using common objects – furniture, pipes, flanges, and light bulbs – CASTLES MADE OF SAND Castles Made of Sand Conveyors, pneumatics, stainless steel mold, tide clock, automation, sensor, 500 x 160 x 200 cm BMO Project Space, Toronto Castles Made of Sand is a site-specific installation conceived to be temporarily installed in a small office space located near the top of a skyscraper in downtown Toronto. The installationfunctions
MICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above the OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking itsCUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of lightENTRELACEMENT
Entrelacement Asphalt, pictogram sign, paint 27 x 16 m Canal Lachine, Montreal An additional segment extends a bicycle path along the Lachine Canal in Montreal. The design of the asphalt path is the product of an awkward gesture which, when reproduced large scale, counters the functional logic ofMICHEL DE BROIN
Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects andSUPERFICIAL
Superficial Mirrors, glue, cement 290 x 523 x 475 cm Produit par le FRAC Alsace et Langage Plus, France Invited to participate in an exhibition exploring the notion of transparency, I chose to envelop a large stone, tucked away deep in the Alsatian woods, with fragmentsof
BLOOM - MICHEL DE BROIN Bloom Highway traffic lights, steel, 22 x 24 x 24 m St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary Bloom is situated in relation to existing paths throughout the island. Tilted after an elaborate polyhedron, the tall poles extend their extremities in a stellation. Like a burst of rays, the asymmetrically arranged streetlights reveal all possibleoutward directions
DENDRITE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dendrite - Michel de Broin. Dentrite Steel, paint, 6,75 x 7,50 x 5,30 m. Parc Central Kirchberg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Within the context of the Labyrinthe du Parc Central, Dendrite—a reference to the branched structure of the neurons that constitute our minds—provides visitors with the opportunity to climb above the OVERFLOW - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Overflow Water, pump, bassin, furniture and rubbish Variable dimensions Nuit Blanche, Toronto In the ruined remains of the old central Toronto prison chapel, demolished in 1920, water pours down as a continuous flow, like a torrent gushing out of the third story window. The building’s contents, pieces of furniture and electricalgoods, have spilled
THRESHOLDS - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Thresholds Retrieved subway doors, motion sensors, 15 x 3 x 2.3 m KM3 – A public art program, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. A series of doors creates a path the public is invited to follow, recalling the digestive tract’s ingestion process as the installation breathes and swells to the rhythm of the traffic that passes through it, creating a contrast between mechanical BLACK WHOLE CONFERENCE Black Whole Conference 74 chaises, système de fixation 440 x 440 x 440 cm Collection du Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne L’installation consiste en un groupe de chaises fixées les unes aux autres par les pattes, de manière à produire une sphère. Dans cette architecture utopique, chaque élément assure et partage solidairement la stabilitéTORTOISE CUBE
Tortoise Cube Wood, stainless steel, 346 x 354 x 391 cm The sculpture “Tortoise” uses standard picnic tables—an immediately recognizable representation of North American leisure culture—as building blocks to transform them into an enclosing structure. ˚The ancient Roman ‘tortoise formation’ is a tactic, commonly used during military campaigns, obviously taking itsCUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of lightENTRELACEMENT
Entrelacement Asphalt, pictogram sign, paint 27 x 16 m Canal Lachine, Montreal An additional segment extends a bicycle path along the Lachine Canal in Montreal. The design of the asphalt path is the product of an awkward gesture which, when reproduced large scale, counters the functional logic ofTHIS AND THAT
This and That Gallery Division, Toronto An emphatic turn towards objects, the non-human, things, and their meaningfulness has swept contemporary philosophical discourse. Despite our phenomenal relation to everything we see and everything we touch (and what touches back, felt or not), a relation colours our world—or at least the discourse surrounding it. And so, INTERLACE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Interlace Bricks and mortar 700 x 620 x 330 cm Collection Changwon, South Korea Interlace is a work created for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale and installed permanently upon Dot Island. ENCIRCLING - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Encircling Asphalt, yellow paint, road sign, 14.8 x 21.9 m Scape Biennale, Christchurch, New Zealand This public artwork adopted the urban language of street signs, asphalt and road markings to create an irregular circular road in North Hagley Park. Its ironic system absurdly redirects traffic into a never-ending circuit on aroad to nowhere,
REVOLUTIONS
Revolutions Aluminum, 500 x 500 x 850 cm Collection of the City of Montreal, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, City of Montreal This sculpture was inspired by the winding exterior staircases central to Montreal’s architectural identity. By forming a knot, the staircase deconstructs the symbolism of vertical ascension with which it is usually associated. Here, the staircase LUSTRE - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Lustre C-print, 115 x 75 cm Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gant (Belgium) The project consists of digging out lampposts along the street to form a gigantic chandelier suspended in the sky by a crane. At the end of the day, the crane operator hoists up the chandelier. Whilst the construction workers sleep, the Chandelier illuminates thenight.
LA CONDUITE DES CONDUITES La conduite des conduites Galerie Division This exhibition proposes an interplay between the modeling of behaviour (the term “conduites” in french means ‘pipe’ but also ‘behaviour’ – in this case of objects or bodies) and the channeling of emotional responses, flows and energy. Using common objects – furniture, pipes, flanges, and light bulbs – MEHR LICHT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Mehr Licht Street lights, steel structure, 14 x 16 x 17 m Kunst-am-Bau Wettbewerb für den Deutschen Bundestag, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin Suspended in the courtyard of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus building in Berlin, which contains the Parliamentary Library and Archives for the nearby Reichstag, Mehr Licht is a new addition to the collection of the Bundestag (German MONUMENT - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Monument Granite, 230 x 150 x 150 cm The City of Winnipeg Collection Monument is a mystery that will never be entirely revealed. One can recognize its classical motif borrowed from the tradition of monuments but disrupted from the passivity of the academy. It announces itself as an invitation to an experience where theCUT INTO THE DARK
Cut into the Dark Video HD, Blu Ray, colour, sound, 4 min. 2 sec A protagonist cuts down a lamppost with a chainsaw. The operation lasts several minutes before it tumbles to the ground. In the roar the lightbulbs shatter and instantly plunge us into darkness. The darkness left by the absence of light DEAD STAR - MICHEL DE BROIN - MICHEL DE BROIN Dead Star - Michel de Broin. Dead Star Batteries, urethane, polystyrene. Variable dimensions. Dead Star is made from residual batteries at the end of their duty. Left to itself, the sculpture will slowly cool down since there is no longer electronic activity taking place inside it. The hundreds of batteries were once used to powerMICHEL DE BROIN
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------------------------- 2020.02.09 – 2020.04.05 Milutin Gubash – _ La main du magicien dans la froide lumière dujour _
Curator Michel de Broin Opening February 9th Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides – MAC LAU 101, place du Curé-Labelle Saint-Jérôme, Quebec J7Z 1X6 In a world where exhausted resources force us to invent new solutions, the installation shows dismembered and acephalic bodies that regain control over their self-representation. How can we reconnect the pieces of the puzzle, when several pieces of the game are lost, there is no more glue or nail and the raw materials necessary to power our technology run out? Milutin’s installation is a low-tech spectacle of human comedy were the digressive game of a dance of death is recorded by obsolete devices whose image is blurred. Between reality and fiction, with his sense of burlesque tragedy, Milutin Gubash reconstructs his imaginary relationship with his native country from the stories told by his family. The animated members of this macabre dance, a memory of the collateral victims of the war, are staged not without humor and derision. Illuminated by fragments of depleted uranium, the specters continue to dance. (Michel de Broin) 2020.05.08 – 2020.06.29_Ruhr Ding: Climate
_Urbane Künste Ruhr, Germany Curators : Britta Peters and Vlado Velkov With the artists Mariechen Danz + Kerstin Brätsch (IE/DE), Kasia Fudakowski (UK), Jeewi Lee (KR), Deborah Ligorio (IT), Yukihiro Taguchi + Chiara Ciccarello (JP/IT), Raul Walch (DE), and Klaus Weber(DE)
2020.03.26 – 2020.06.21_Zero Emission_
Museum Leipzig, Germany Curators : Lena Fließbach and Hannah Beck-Mannagetta With the artists Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Michel de Broin, Kadija de Paula und Chico Togni, Nadine Fecht, Vibha Galhotra, Tue Greenfort, Swaantje Güntzel, Eliana Heredia, Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus, Wolf von Kries, Christoph Medicus, Klara Meinhardt, Alexander Oelofse, Dani Ploeger, Mika Rottenberg, Erik Sturm and Raul Walch2020.03.17
_Courant Vert_
Espace EDF, Paris
Curator : Paul Ardenne With the artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Maria Thereza Alves, Janet Biggs, Thierry Boutonnier, Couturier Lafargue, Michel de Broin, Nicole Dextras, Christiane Geoffroy, Jérémy Gobé, Nathan Grimes, Olga Kisseleva, Janet Laurence, Lucy et Jorge Orta, Fernando Prats, Jean-François Robic, Jacques Rougerie, Sarah Trouche and San Van Aken NEWS ARCHIVES 2020.02.09 -2020.04.05
_La main du magicien dans la froide lumière du jour_ Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Canada 2020.05.08 - 2020.06.29 _Ruhr Ding: Climate_ Urbane Künste Ruhr, Germany 2020.03.26 - 2020.06.21_Zero Emission_
Museum Leipzig, Germany2020.03.17
_Courant Vert_
Espace EDF, Paris
2020.02.11 - 2020.05.12_Thresholds_
Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada 2019.10.31 - 2019.12.08 _Montréal ~ Habana : Rencontres en art actuel / Encuentros de ArteContemporáneo_
Havana, Cuba
2019.09.09
_Poetry Lies In Between_ CityLeaks Festival Center, Cologne, Germany 2019.05.20 - 2019.05.24_CoExistence_
2019 ICRA-X Robotic Art Program, Palais des congrès de Montréal,Canada
2019.05.04 - 2019.07.13_Revolution_
Biennale d’architecture et de paysage Versailles, Paris 2019.03.08 - 2019.04.13 _Salle des maquettes_ Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal 2019.02.07 - 2019.05.18_Bonne conduite_
Angoulême, France (FRAC Poitou-Charentes)2019.02.20 - 2019.06.09_Thresholds _
Âjagemô art space, Ottawa (Canada Council for the Arts) 2018.11.02 - 2018.11.04 _Man Ray, Michel de Broin, Juliette Goiffon & Charles Beauté_ Artissima, Turin (Galerie Eva Meyer)2018.10.20 - Work in progress_Deviations_
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver2018.09.13 - 2018.11.17 _La conduite des conduites_ Galerie Division, Montreal NEWS ARCHIVESTEXTS
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Nathalie Bachand, Canada Council for the Arts Thresholds is an experience in transit. It calls to mind the velocity of our urban journeys, small moments in everyday time and space. The installation remakes the internal mechanics of door-opening devices found on old metro cars manufactured for the inauguration of the Montréal metro at the 1967 World Exhibition. The MR-63 car has now been replaced by more modern equipment, but its impact on the collective Montréal imagination is undeniable. _Entropic engines and retooled appliances: Michel de Broin and the technological unconscious_ Daniel Sherer, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal The art of Michel de Broin centres on the paradoxical refunctionalization of utilitarian objects, mechanical devices, architecture and urban infrastructure. Ranging across a broad spectrum, it opens new perspectives on the multiple technical systems and forms of mediation that affect our lives, often in intangibleways.
_Between the Possible and the Impossible_ Nathalie de Blois, Musée national des beaux arts du Québec For more than ten years, Michel de Broin has been honing a trans-disciplinary art which calls systems and their articulation into question. Adopting a critical and playful attitude towards common objects and current ideas, he sets out to render visible, through richly profound metaphors and analogies, the forces at work in the movement of the energies which guide our actions and govern ourimpulses.
_Sculpture of Steel, City of Nerves_ Bernard Schütze, Espace art actuel Dendrites, a public artwork recently inaugurated along with its sit — Place de l’Aviation Civile International, is a fascinating and consistent extension of Michel de Broin’s ongoing and prolific art practice. In fact the work combines two elements that are characteristic of his multifaceted approach. _Michel de Broin at Bitform Gallery_ Darren Jones, Artforum Michel de Broin’s US solo debut activates cracked lightbulbs, wood logs, bronze castings, and a bicycle with electric currents. The Montreal-based artist calls upon these basic objects to convey fundamental physical forces, all the while adding a trace of whimsyto his works.
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Bryne McLaughlin, Art in America There's a dizzy logic to the work of Montreal artist Michel de Broin. Take, for instance, his sculpture Révolution, a maquette version of which opened his recent survey exhibition at the MACM. Commissioned in 2010 for the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes, France, the massive work (which remains in France) features a knotted, 100-foot-long steel staircase designed to confound notions of beginning and end. _Michel de Broin BMO Project Room_ Bryne McLaughlin, Canadian Art There is no beginning and no end to Michel de Broin's Castles Made of Sand (2016). Installed high above the Toronto financial district as the most recent commission for the BMO Project Room, de Broin's hulking installation pivots on a simple conceptual proposition: how to construct a machine that builds and rebuilds sandcastles. _Disruption From Within_ Rodney LaTourelle, Plug-In ICA For his first solo exhibition in Western Canada, Michel de Broin presents recent work in various media. His art may take many forms, from traditional sculpture to installations, actions, and video, but it always employs a rupture in the logic of a particular convention, whether it is an object, situation, or process. Perversions, detours, and odd juxtapositions are strategies that repeatedly appear in his work, which uses the combination of unrelated systems in order to expose overlooked preconceptions. _A Logic of Being Against?_ Bernard Lamarche, Parachute Resistance is born of one force’s thwarted affections for another... It does not confront the enemy in order to inflict defeat upon it but struggles with adversity, for which the adversary is only a stand-in, in order to weaken it and make it give in..._Interview_
Michel de Broin, Etienne Zack, Mass MoCA I recently carried out a performance involving a lumberjack and a lamppost. The historical movement known as “The Age of Enlightenment” or “Age of Reason,” to which Newton belonged, translates to “the Century of Light” in French, light being a synonym of reason and darkness suspected of belonging to witchcraftand magic.
@ Véronique Ducharme, 2018 Michel de Broin deepens his cross-disciplinary practice by developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary. His approach to production explores the intersections between technological, biological, and physical systems. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, consumption and risk, de Broin challenges the use-value and conventional associations of familiar objects and symbols: he infuse them new meaning and developsnew contexts.
His work has been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain deMontréal ;
the Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne; France;
the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin;
the Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; the
Museum Tinguely
,
Basel; the Centre d’art Villa Arson,
Nice; at Eyebeam ,
New York; and at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York.
His work is held in several museums and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada ; the Art Gallery of Ontario ; the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal ; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ; the City of Montreal; the FRAC Poitou Charentes , France; and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein ,Germany.
His public art works and commissions include Dendrites, 2017, Montreal;
Threshold , 2017,
Montréal; Interlude , 2016, Québec city; Bloom , 2015, Calgary; Possibilities , 2012, Mississauga;Interlace , 2012,
Changwong; Majestic , 2011, New Orleans; Revolution , 2010, Rennes; Arch , Montréal, 2009; La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel,
2009, Paris; Overflow , 2008, Toronto; Encircling , Christchurch, 2006; Shared Propulsion Car, 2005,
New York and 2007, Toronto; Révolutions, 2003, Parc
Maisonneuve-Cartier, Montréal. Recipient of the 2007 Sobey Art Award,
de Broin has also received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, the Harpo Foundation (Los Angeles) and Krasner-Pollock Foundation (New York), and was awarded a residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York), the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Acme studio (London) and Villa Arson(Nice).
He is represented by the Galerie Division, Montreal.
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