“Masterpiece” is a hollowed-out word that hardly says anything anymore—
or rarely,
in a whisper.
Yet some works, perfectly resolved, go straight to the heart of art. They make us see. They make something exist.
Making us see results in a sharing of the soul and points toward some truth.
This reality is not about the art market, nor its fashions or official status; art EXISTS like the real juice in a fruit before we are offered its derivative……, flavoured like.
It takes curious eyes and a solid engagement with human life—one that, like the eyes, should also be doubled—to compensate for our conditionings and their pretensions.
Artists: Roger Bellemare, Jérôme Bouchard, Ulysse Comtois, James Ensor, Mathieu Gaudet, Lyne Lapointe, Stéphane La Rue, Marcel Lemyre, Robert Mapplethorpe, Charlotte Moorman, Peter Moore, Nam June Paik, Zoran Mušič, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Barbara Steinman, Martha Townsend.
