MEDIA KIT JE AN-MARIE MAHIEU VOI R C LAIR SALLE SAINT-GEORGES GRAND-PLACE, MONS EXHIBITION 14 February — 17 May 2015 www.sallesaintgeorges.mons.be VOI R C LAIR Jean-Marie Mahieu’s exhibition for Mons 2015 illustrates the way he combines his love of the Borinage with his appreciation of the cultures of the world. “To know where you’re going, first you have to understand where you live”, he says. “Voir Clair” (seeing the light) is the title of his slow metaphorical climb from the darkness into the light, from the darkness in depths of the earth to the light of day, the endless journey of the miners of his youth. For his secret alchemy of the universal and the local, he digs deep into his memory, with the thousands of photographic slides taken during initiatory walks which he entitles «bornage» - marking out the boundaries. In a slow metamorphosis, he explores significant places in his memory, places with names still resonating with the industrial and social events of their past, places where meaning “lies just below the surface of the ground, like the coal seams”. Since breaking with digital imaging in 2000, he transposes his shots of landscapes and homes onto new media, which he then painstakingly reworks. His canvases are covered with layers of paint which profoundly alter their meaning. This exhibition is being held simultaneously with “Van Gogh in the Borinage”, one of the major events of Mons 2015. The two have a major feature in common - the Borinage was the determining factor in the lives of these two men as artists. JEAN-MARIE MAHIEU - VOIR CLAIR - MEDIA KIT 2 Jean-Marie Mahieu, photo Nathalie Amand Jean-Marie Mahieu was born at La Bouverie (Frameries) in 1945, and he lives and works there. At the age of 22, after his professional training, he returned to studying art at the Mons Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. He then taught art at the Tournai Académie des Beaux-Arts. Since 1969, as a visual artist, he has exhibited in Belgium and abroad, and produces stage designs and environmental works. His involvement in the stage arts has led him to work with the Fabrique de Théâtre de La Bouverie, an institution under the aegis of the Province of Hainaut, where he lives and is artist in residence. In spite of Jean-Marie Mahieu’s attachment to his native land, in 1972 he travelled by car to the Near and Middle East. His travels have taken him from the Borinage to remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. JEAN-MARIE MAHIEU - VOIR CLAIR - MEDIA KIT 3 “ Vue d’ici ” “ Maison de l’être ” Featured images are available to download : http://www.polemuseal.mons.be/presse/dossiers-de-presse 4 “ De natura, suite ” “ Echapper à la grisaille II ” 5 “ Tous les gris, sfumato ” “ D’un lieu, l’autre ” 6 “ Station, V, suite ” “ Le lieu de la peinture ” 7 JE AN-MARIE MAHIEU VOI R C LAIR Infos WHEN CONTACTS 14 FEBRUARY — 17 MAY 2015 Juliette PICRY Porte-parole Ville de Mons WHERE 0497970873 SALLE SAINT-GEORGES [email protected] GRAND-PLACE, 7000 MONS 065/40.52.06 www.sallesaintgeorges.mons.be 12.00 - 18.00 daily except Mondays (closed) 14.00 - 20.00 Saturdays and Sundays ADMISSION 2€/1€ Bruno VANDEGRAAF Coordinateur de l’exposition 0473/60.27.27 [email protected] Marie BERTOUIL Chargée de communication adjointe Pôle muséal 0492/91.90.87 [email protected] Cette exposition bénéficie du soutien de la fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles À ce titre, nous remercions la ministre de La Culture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Éditeur responsable : Elio Di Rupo, Hôtel de Ville, Grand-Place, 7000 Mons JEAN-MARIE MAHIEU - VOIR CLAIR - MEDIA KIT 8
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