This book is the result of a publishing residency at Centre SAGAMIE by Rimouski artist Bruno Santerre. This creative stay allowed him to develop two original photographic projects entitled L'Atelier en déplacement and L'Atelier en retrait, which are accompanied by an essay by Laurier Lacroix. As a starting point for this publishing project, Santerre worked in the light of two artists who, like him, have used light in their plastic research. He moved his studio to Paris, Amsterdam and Delft, to the places where Brancusi and Vermeer lived, in order to take a series of photographs in or around their studios. In order to situate the process that led to the creation of these new series of works, Pierre Rannou discusses, in the first part of the book, three solo exhibitions of Santerre's work, in which the notions of studio and gallery merge and invite the viewer to participate in the making of the view.
The Shifting Studio
Bruno Santerre
Bruno Santerre lives and works in Rimouski, Quebec. Recent solo exhibitions include Dans la lumière de l'atelier (en déplacement), Centre d'artistes Vaste et Vague, Carleton (2009); Dans la lumière, Centre national d'exposition, Jonquière (2009); Dans la lumière de l'atelier (nuages et ombres blanches), Circa, Montréal (2007); Dans la lumière de l'atelier, tracer le rebord des nuages, at Plein sud, Longueuil (2006); Dans l'atelier de Palomar, at Occurrence, Montreal (2004); Voir, savoir et croire, (with Laurie Walker), at Musée régional de Rimouski (1997). Since 1982, his work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, notably in France at the Galerie Calibre 33 and the Villa Arson (Nice); at the Librairie du Québec (Paris); at the Université de Metz; at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy and, in Canada, at the Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton); at the Pitt International Gallery (Vancouver); at the Musée national des Beaux-arts du Québec; at the Musée d'art de Joliette; at the Musée régional de Rimouski; at the Galerie Trois Points, at Skol and Circa (Montreal). He also participated in the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine in Trois-Rivières (2004) and in the Symposium international d'art in situ Lumières, réflexion de l'insondable, at the Musée régional de Rimouski (2003). Holder of a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1988, he has been received as an artist in residence at the Centre d'artistes Vaste et Vague, Carleton (Québec), at the Centre Sagamie, Alma (Québec), at the Villa Arson, Nice (France) and at the Centro internazionale di sperimentationi artistiche in Boissano (Italy). His works have accompanied collections of poetry by Paul Chanel Malenfant and André Gervais published by Éditions du Noroît and he produced an artist's book with André Gervais, Le poète intervalii dans la variante amoureuse, published in 1996 by Éditions Roselin. Recipient in 2008 of the Prix à la création artistique (Bas-Saint-Laurent region) from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bruno Santerre has produced several works of integration with architecture in Quebec. His works are part of several public and private collections in Canada.
