On March 9, Annick Gauvreau gave a talk at the Musée d'art de Rouyn-Noranda on her unique artistic journey. The Coteau-du-Lac multi-disciplinary artist will deliver the same lecture this Thursday, March 14, to students in Nancy Lépine's Arts-études class at the Cité-des-jeunes (Arts-études ESCJ).

For the occasion, Annick has created a work that illustrates her artistic approach, which moves back and forth between drawings, paintings and animated, interactive or musical 3D works often composed of recycled parts. It's a zany self-portrait of her creative process. The musical mechanism plays Edelweiss, one of the songs from the musical The Sound of Music.

Here's what Annick has to say about the conference:

"I was born in Montreal in 1954, to two parents who signed the historic Refus Global manifesto, Madeleine Arbour and Pierre Gauvreau. This is not, however, a talk that recounts or presents the Refus Global, although I do give a brief description of it in the introduction. Rather, it's an account of my experiences in a singular environment, which led me to become the artist I am today. The people evoked in this lecture are real, although they are tinged with a personal vision, my own."

Annick reports that the conference was a great success in Rouyn-Noranda, despite a heavy snowfall and blowing snow the day before. "Some forty people turned up for my talk, despite the weather, and it was a wonderful moment for me and, I hope, for others too".

Annick's exhibition-sale continues at the Musée de société des Deux-Rives - MUSO in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield throughout March, and the Gauvreau & fille (Pierre and Annick Gauvreau) exhibition is currently on view at the Musée d'art de Rouyn-Noranda, until April 14. 

The Gauvreau & fille exhibition features over twenty-five works created between 1977 and 2008 by Pierre Gauvreau, as well as five works by his daughter Annick.

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