Share the Collection Loto-Québec

Celebrate the fall cultural season with the Collection Loto-Québec!

Centre SAGAMIE is delighted to welcome the Collection Loto-Québec. Please join us on September 14 as of 5 p.m. to discover the fruit of this collaboration, built on exploration and dialogue focused on the selected works.

The exhibition SILLONS | Partager la Collection Loto-Québec is the result of a process of exploration of the Loto-Québec Collection, which comprises almost 5,000 works. Some of these works are on display at the company's head office, in its casinos and on the walls of certain ministerial offices.

For this exhibition, Loto-Québec and Centre SAGAMIE asked Julien St-Georges Tremblay to act as curator. Following a call for submissions, four Quebec artists - Cindy Dumais (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean), Ryth Kesselring (Montérégie), Gabriel Mondor (Lanaudière) and Douglas Scholes (Montreal) - were chosen to create original works and place them in dialogue with a selection of works from the Loto-Québec Collection.

“We feel privileged and are eager to publicly present this project that celebrates the collection and revisits the inspiring Quebecois artistic heritage it testifies to!” exclaim Émili Dufour and Mathilde Martel-Coutu, the artistic codirectors of Centre SAGAMIE.

The artists and the curator worked jointly to discover Collection Loto-Québec's many nuances. Founded in 1979, the collection has acquired many historically significant works over the years, while at the same giving an important role to emerging art.

“Loto-Québec applauds the creativity and daring of the people behind this exhibition. Their imagination echoes both the works in our collection and the principle of democratic participation that underpins it. We're very proud to support our home-grown art,” states Eric Meunier, the director of social engagement at Loto-Québec.

Rich in stylistic and conceptual contrasts, the Loto-Québec Collection is here presented as a territory that the artists and curator have extensivelly travelled through. As of September 14, they invite the public to stroll through the passages they have opened up within this vast creative space.

Artists

Sylvie BÉLANGER, Mario BERGERON, Judith BERRY, Pierre BLACHE, Huguette BOUDRIAS, Ghislain CARON, Janine CARREAU, Bertrand CARRIÈRE, Suzanne CHABOT, Carl DAOUST, Victor DE BOURGIE, Jannick DESLAURIERS, DÉSO, Cindy DUMAIS, Isabelle GRONDIN, Paul HARDY, Louise J. BOUCHARD, Ryth KESSELRING, Guy LARAMÉE, Joe LIMA, Gabriel MONDOR, Nadia MYRE, Suzanne PAQUETTE, Lili RICHARD, Douglas SCHOLES, Francine SIMONIN, Jori SMITH, Serge TOUSIGNANT, Deborah WOOD

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