2024 Program

Stella Pace

from tuesday, January 30 to Saturday, February 24, 2024

Opening Reception Thursday, February 1 at 5:30pm

"Raison d’Être" is an unpublished corpus born out of the necessity to create. These works were conceived during various stays in artist residencies. It is a workshop endeavor where the hand invents rather than the mind.

"The material has its secret life, and it's the artist who brings it to life. One must let oneself be carried away and swept along by it." This quote by Henri Bauchau perfectly summarizes "Raison d’Être," an invitation where lithography, carborundum engraving, and drawing-assemblage become one.

Approach:

I have spoken little about my process, preferring to manifest it rather than talk about it. Whenever a gesture emerges from my hands, it is and has always been instinctive. There is no reflection, and I have neither preconceived ideas nor pre-established plans or constructions. I follow this flow until the work no longer needs me.

Stella Pace, @stellapace65

CODEX IX

From February 4 to 7, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our ninth biennial International Artist's Book Fair and Symposium in which we are participating. Find us at tables W1 and W2.

The CODEX Foundation is a non-profit organization based in California, USA, dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of the book arts. It is renowned for its efforts to promote and support book arts, quality printing, and bookbinding through various activities, including exhibitions, symposia, and publications.

31st Annual IFPDA print fair

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Avenue, New York, NY

PUBLIC HOURS

FRIDAY 28 mars 2025

11 h - 19 h

SATURDAY 29 mars 2025

11 h - 19 h

SUNDAY 30 mars 2025

11 h - 17 h

We are very happy to announce that we are participating in 31st IFPDA Print Fair. You can find us at kiosk B03.

IFPDA (International Fine Print Dealers Association) is a United States-based association dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the art of printmaking. The IFPDA brings together art dealers, collectors, curators and other art world professionals. Its aim is to promote understanding and appreciation of printmaking as an important art form.

Along the Long Wall

Exposition du personnel et des professeurs en arts graphiques de Concordia

Du 27 février au 8 mars

Vernissage le 7 mars, de 17h à 19h

Incluant les œuvres de Bonnie Baxter, Megan Stein, Emma Pallay, Steph Russ, Stephanie De Couto Costa, Catherine Wild, Virginie Fillion-Fecteau, Erika Adams, April White, Etienne Rochon, Jenny Lin, Jeanette Johns, Mitch Mitchell, Jessica Slipp

Marks & Messages

Étudient-e-s en Maîtrise d’Arts graphiques du Concordia

Exposition du mardi 12 au samedi 16 mars.

Vernissage jeudi 14 mars de 17h à 19h

Venez découvrir les œuvres inspirantes et novatrices de nos étudiants en MFA lors de cette exposition exceptionnelle. Nous sommes impatients de vous y voir!

Impressions

Concordia Print Media Undergraduate Student Exhibition

Exposition from march 24 to april 5 

Opening Reception Wednesday March 27, from 5 to 9pm

We are pleased to invite you to the undergraduate student exhibition. Come discover the talent and creativity of our young artists!

Jean-Marie Gauvreau prize 2024

Alain and Agathe Piroir are one of the three finalists for the 2024 Jean-Marie Gauvreau Prize.

The Prize represents the highest distinction in fine crafts in Quebec. For this occasion, the artist's book "Trois entretiens" will be exhibited at MUMAQ from April 2 to 28. The announcement of the laureate will be made during an evening at the same venue on April 4, 2024.

Plural : Montreal Contemporary Art Fair

From April 12 to 15, 2024

Espaces Pavillon, booth 205

We are pleased to announce that this year, Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir will participate in Plural in the Espaces Pavillon section.

Plural celebrates the best of contemporary art in Canada. Created by and for the galleries, the fair presents and brings together the plurality of voices and works in contemporary art from across the country. It elevates art market practices through a rigorous selection of galleries presenting thoughtfully chosen artists and artworks; and through accessible programming that addresses current issues and questions in the field of art. Plural fosters the discovery of new voices and forms of expression in leading contemporary art and cultivates a sense of collectivity within the Canadian art community.

Jean-Pierre Sauvé

From Tuesday, April 16th to Saturday, May 11th, 2024

Opening reception on Saturday, April 20th at 2:30 PM

Jean-Pierre Sauvé, an accomplished artist, has devoted himself to printmaking (etching and collagraphy) for many years. Passionate about experimentation, he innovates by pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking techniques. A founding member of Atelier Circulaire, he worked there for several years, contributing to shaping Montreal's artistic landscape.

Today, Jean-Pierre Sauvé lives and works in Montreal and Port-au-Persil. His creative space is a place where inspiration and creativity meet, where each work is the result of meticulous exploration and deep reflection. His work is distinguished by his technical mastery, artistic sensitivity, and constant desire to innovate.

By pushing the limits of traditional printmaking, Jean-Pierre Sauvé creates works that captivates and inspires. His works reflect his commitment to his art, his desire to push the boundaries of creativity, and his love for experimentation. His work is a tribute to the richness and diversity of printmaking, and an invitation to explore new artistic horizons.

Page(s — Contemporary bibliophilia and artists' books

May 11 & 12, 2024

Bastille Design Center, 74 boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris 11e, Fr

For almost thirty years, the PAGE Association has been promoting and introducing rare and beautiful artists' books to a wider audience: sensitive, sensual, playful, often unusual approaches... The association brings together around a hundred French publishers and foreigners PAGE(S shows all the facets of the book.

Rare Books and Graphic Arts Salon

a new venue in 2024 : Le Carreau du Temple à Paris

from June 14 to 16, 2024

The Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM) invites all collectors, enthusiasts, and curious minds from June 14 to 16, 2024, in Paris. A new space will host the Salon in 2024: Le Carreau du Temple, a building steeped in the history of Paris.

Carmen Isasi

"DEVENIR"

September 3 to October 5, 2024

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 7, at 2:30 PM.

We are delighted to announce the summer residency of Spanish artist Carmen Isasi at Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir. This residency will culminate in a solo exhibition of her works, titled "DEVENIR."

Carmen Isasi is the recipient of the Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir Prize, awarded at the 13th International Biennial of Contemporary Print (BIECTR) in Trois-Rivières in 2023. Her work was recognized for its poignant depiction of the hardships faced by migrants in their pursuit of a better future, capturing the pain of these perilous journeys with elegance.

DEVENIR is the title of the series of photogravures made in recent years that show her interest in two themes that currently challenge us: the drama of migration and the repercussions of climate change on nature.

The first serie, UNINHABITED, is a project that arose from the need to denounce the abandonment to which migrants are subjected when, due to the critical situation they suffer in their respective countries, they choose to cross the Mediterranean or the Atlantic in precarious boats bound for European coasts. Unfortunately, many of these people do not manage to reach them.

In the works, absence becomes a presence: what is not seen is what is evoked: drifting clothes, at the mercy of currents and tides, question us about the bodies they covered, their identity, their origin, their history.

This series of photogravures belongs to the project of the same name, which includes photography, artist's book, video, video installation and sound installation.

WOUNDS (I y II) belong to the project of the same name, which was born out of the devastation caused by a snowstorm in the city of Madrid, mainly on its trees, in January 2021.

VESTIGES is the latest series Carmen Isasi has been working on. The works present fragments of reified landscapes enclosed in crumpled paper, like portable memories that could be opened and expanded at any time and place.

Please note: During the "DEVENIR" exhibition, Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir will participate in Montreal Galleries Weekend 2024, from September 26 to 29, as well as in the Journées de la culture, offering presentations and demonstrations focused on printmaking, with a special emphasis on photopolymer.

We invite you to explore this moving exhibition and participate in the activities at Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir during these events.

Ed Pien

Exposition du 15 Octobre à 23 Novembre

In this presentation, my works celebrate the sentience of water. Water, a life-sustaining substance, becomes my indispensable collaborator. The works presented here bear witness to its expressive and dynamic presence, as well as its creativity and sense of non-human agency.

Collaborating with water allowed me to personally push beyond my own printmaking boundaries. For instance, in the Big Thirst series, water kidnapped from the Caribbean Sea, containing salt, minerals, and organic matter, has been coaxed to interact with metal plates pressed onto printing paper soaked in this rather volatile medium. Over the course of a few days, the remnants of the accelerated oxidation on the plates are transferred onto the paper. In turn, I respond to the nuanced markings and rich coloration registered on the paper, by adding my own set of images using intaglio processes.

In another work, equally playful in its making, involve capturing and printing bubbles formed through a combination of water, ink, and soap. Additionally, one piece explores the traces left by water subjected to gravitational force.

The water involved comes from diverse locations, including Chile, Cuba, Iceland, Canada, and Brazil. This spirited substance, brimming with its own complex and storied life, profoundly influences the ways in which I conceptualize and engage in these collaborative printing endeavors.

When water is perceived solely as a resource, a mere material for daily use, or as something to be readily exploited, its agency and spirit have been denied. In exploring the sentience of water, I am compelled to rethink my actions in this world, acknowledging my complicity in the negative impacts exacted on our shared planet, which we cohabit with all other more-than-human beings.

—Ed Pien

Hélène Latulippe

Exposition December 3, 2024

Industrial design and visual arts allow me to counterbalance chaos by creating a harmonious and calm environment. The straight line, as used in design and advocated by Kandinsky in arts, becomes my antidote against confusion.

I treat landscape in a distinctive way and I adapt the technique of traditional printmaking. I plunge into a specific environment in order to feel its flow of sensations. This experience finds its tangible form on linocuts with regular abstract motives repeated on different materials.

I invite the spectator to experience the tranquility of the landscape by observing at the topography of my work. To each, may discover a secret and imagine a meaning.