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With the exhibition “Les temps inachevés” at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, the Quebec artist Patrick Bernatchez offers a voyage through two major groups of works: “Chrysalides” (2006-2013) and “Lost in Time” (2009-2014).
Bernatchez’s multidisciplinary oeuvre mixes drawings, sculptures, sound installations, films and more. Both groups were developed over several years and neither has a clearly defined ending, since the artist has left openings that allow him to take them a step further at any time. Each new Patrick Bernatchez exhibition is thus an opportunity to take stock of his constantly evolving cycles, as much in terms of newly added productions as of the ways in which earlier works are presented. The artist does not view an exhibition as the conclusion or completion of the creative process surrounding a group of works but as an intermediary step, an initial presentation that allows the works in question to evolve.
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source: skolca

Self-taught, Patrick Bernatchez lives and works in Montréal. He has had solo exhibitions across Québec and participated in group shows both within Québec (L’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda; CLARK, Montréal; B-312, Montréal; Espace Virtuel, Ville-Saguenay) and internationally, most notably at the 11th Pancevo Biennale in Serbia and Monténégro [en duo avec Gennaro de Pasquale]. He has also participated in many group exhibitions (Manif d’art 2, Québec 2003; Réponse à Zola, CLARK 2006). The artist is represented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal.