Michael Smith: Sea of Change | Mer mouvante (English and French Edition)
Language: English
Published by Goose Lane Editions, 2024
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition. First printing with number line to 1. Quarto. 112 pp. Very good or better. Pictorial boards. No jacket, as issued. Lavishly illustrated throughout with colour images of the works of Michael Smith. Text is both in English and French (side by side). Very minor bumps to bottom corners. Else, a very nice copy. Securely shipped in a box.
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- Title
- Michael Smith: Sea of Change | Mer mouvante (English and French Edition)
- Author
- Smith, Michael; Leroux, John; Tousley, Nancy
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1773104187
- ISBN 13
- 9781773104188
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Montreal-based painter Michael Smith is known for his fluid and impasto surfaces as well as his ability to strike a poetic balance between representation and abstraction. Inspired by art history as well as historic and current events, Smith pulls from various sources to create his energetic landscapes and seascapes. J.M.W. Turner’ s The Fountain of Indolence, George Chambers’ s depictions of 19th-century Arctic expeditions, and Jean Paul Riopelle’ s palette knife abstractions continually shape Smith’ s understanding of landscape painting, while historically focused projects push the boundaries of his subject matter.
This major retrospective of Michael Smith’ s paintings demonstrates his ability to mix landscape with abstraction, creating fictional spaces that show how experience impacts the way we view the world. Layering landscapes and seascapes, the familiar with the unfamiliar, Smith’ s paintings convey (as Smith writes), “ a mix of excitement and anxiety of a land, [that] although at times bucolic, is riddled with shadows.”
Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Michael Smith: Sea of Change features 50 large-scale reproductions, an essay on Smith’ s trajectory as an artist by critic-curator Nancy Tousley, and an interview with the artist by John Leroux.
Michael Smith’ s work is included in numerous public collections, including those of le Musé e d’ art contemporain de Montré al, le Musé e des beaux-arts de Montré al, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Rideau Hall, and la Citadelle de Qué bec.
Le peintre montré alais Michael Smith est renommé pour sa touche fluide et ses empâ tements, ainsi que pour sa capacité à atteindre un é quilibre riche en poé sie entre la repré sentation et l’ abstraction. Puisant son inspiration tant dans l’ histoire de l’ art que dans les é vé nements du passé ou d’ aujourd’ hui, il utilise une multitude de sources pour cré er ses marines et ses paysages agité s. The Fountain of Indolence de J.M.W. Turner, les repré sentations d’ expé ditions de George Chambers dans l’ Arctique au XIXe siè cle ou encore les abstractions à la spatule de Jean Paul Riopelle sont autant d’ œ uvres qui faç onnent continuellement sa compré hension de la peinture de paysage, alors que les projets ancré s dans l’ histoire repoussent les limites des thè mes qu’ il aborde.
Cette grande ré trospective té moigne de la capacité de Michael Smith à marier paysage et abstraction pour cré er des espaces fictifs qui dé montrent l’ incidence d’ une expé rience sur notre faç on d’ appré hender le monde. En superposant la marine et le paysage, le familier et l’ inconnu, Smith exprime (comme il l’ explique lui-mê me) « la fé brilité mê lé e d’ anxié té que l’ on é prouve devant un paysage qui, bien que parfois bucolique, est criblé d’ ombres » .
Le catalogue Michael Smith : mer mouvante est publié à l’ occasion d’ une exposition d’ envergure organisé e par le Musé e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il comporte cinquante reproductions grand format, un texte sur le parcours artistique de Smith signé par la critique et commissaire d’ exposition Nancy Tousley ainsi qu’ une entrevue de John Leroux avec l’ artiste.
Des œ uvres de Michael Smith font partie de nombreuses collections publiques, notamment celles du Musé e d’ art contemporain et du Musé e des beaux-arts de Montré al, du Musé e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook (Fredericton), de Rideau Hall (Ottawa) et de la Citadelle de Qué bec.
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About the Author
John Leroux, an art historian, teacher, and retired architect, is the manager of collections and exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has authored or edited seventeen books and contributed to many others. His most recent publications include Peter Powning: A Retrospective and the award-winning Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “ Micmac Indian Craftsmen,” which he co-authored with Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Historien de l’ art, professeur et architecte retraité , John Leroux est responsable des collections et des expositions au Musé e des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il a é crit ou dirigé dix-sept ouvrages et collaboré à de nombreux autres. Parmi ses plus ré centes publications, mentionnons Peter Powning, Une ré trospective et Wabanaki Moderne : L’ hé ritage artistique des Micmac Indian Craftsmen des anné es 1960 qu’ il a ré digé avec Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
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