Michel DE BROIN. MACHINATIONS

Michel DE BROIN. MACHINATIONS
Curator and Writer :Nathalie de Blois
Graphic artist: Dominique Mousseau
Production : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Galerie de l’UQAM
Distribution: ABC Canada
120 pp col. ill. 9 x 6.5 softcover (11/2006)
ISBN : 2-920325-37-X / 978-2-920325-37-1
$30.00 Can./U.S. (24 euros)
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For the past ten years, Michel de Broin (b. Montreal, 1970) has been developing a trans-disciplinary art marked by a sometimes critical, sometimes playful stance toward everyday situations and accepted ideas. His creations, often large installations, are rich with metaphors that crystallize either our greatest pleasures or our greatest fears. This beautifully illustrated publication provides an overview of this exciting young career from absurdist bicycle paths and winding staircases that never touch ground to current preoccupations with the state of the world.

'Engine' is a life-size, free interpretation of the fuselage of a Rolls-Royce aircraft engine. The accompanying text reads, "On September 11 an airplane vanished without a trace in the belly of the Pentagon. The space the object takes up (9 by 12 feet) enables us to measure the absurdity of the disappearance." With the piece are CIA documents from 1962 that provide a chilling reading of today's war against terrorism. Michel de Broin has exhibited in New York, Paris and Berlin as well as throughout Canada. Co-published with the Musée des beaux-arts du Québec. In English and French.