Geneviève Cadieux Explained

Geneviève Cadieux
Birth Date:17 July 1955
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Education:BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa
Known For:photographer who frequently makes large-scale public installations

Geneviève Cadieux (born 17 July 1955) is a Canadian artist known for her large-scale photographic and media works in urban settings. She lives in Montreal.[1]

Education

Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955.[2] [3] She received her BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa.[4]

Teaching

Works

Geneviève Cadieux is a photographer who frequently works with audio-visual materials in her large-scale public installations in urban settings.[5] [6] Cadieux's work confronts identity, gender, and the body. She presents the body as a landscape, focusing on small details close-up, such as mouths, bruises, and scars.[7]

Cadieux's early career was mainly in film photography. Her 1989 work, Hear Me With Your Eyes,[8] was featured at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and consisted of large-scale photographic prints of a woman displaying sexually evocative facial expressions.[8] [9]

Over time, Cadieux's work has shifted to integrating video and audio content, such as her Broken Memory. The piece employed glass sculpture representative of the human body and a recorded reading of a 17th-century poem by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz.[10]

A notable video work by Cadieux was included as the inaugural piece of the 2002 The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, an undertaking by Creative Time and Panasonic wherein the 59th minute of each hour of the day saw an artistic image in place of regular programming. Cadieux's Portrait celebrated the regeneration and renewal of spring, featuring footage of a solitary tree, a lonely survivor of the 1998 ice storm in Montreal.

One of Cadieux's most prominent works is her 1992 piece La Voie lactée, a photograph of a woman's red lips displayed on the rooftop of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.[11] [12] It has since become an icon of Montréal.[13] [14] In 2011, a sister piece, La Voix lactée, was commissioned by the Société de transport de Montréal as a gift for the Paris Metro, in exchange for the Hector Guimard Parisian metro entrance at Square-Victoria-OACI station.[13] Based on the theme of the French language binding France and Quebec, it features a mosaic reproduction of La Voie lactée, accompanied by a poem by Anne Hébert. It was installed at Saint-Lazare station.[15]

In 2019, her work FLOW/FLOTS was unveiled at Rideau station of the O-Train, Ottawa.[16]

Exhibitions

Awards

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Order of Canada appointees - June 2022 . 21 June 2022 . 2022-06-29.
  2. Web site: Geneviève Cadieux. www.gallery.ca.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2019-03-27 . 2019-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191124232424/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1154-e.html . dead .
  4. Web site: Geneviève Cadieux. www.concordia.ca. 2016-03-05. 27 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190327210150/https://www.concordia.ca/arts/public-art/about/genevieve-cadieux.html. dead.
  5. Book: Print. 2003. W.E. Rudge Incorporated.
  6. Web site: City reveals art concepts for LRT stations, total cost to exceed $7M - Ottawa Citizen. Jon. Willing. 25 July 2017.
  7. Web site: Geneviève Cadieux. www.gallery.ca. 2016-03-05.
  8. Web site: Art Now: Genevieve Cadieux: Broken Memory – Exhibition at Tate Britain. Tate.
  9. Book: Lynne Warren. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. 15 November 2005. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-20543-0. 198–.
  10. Book: Arts Magazine. 1991. Art Digest Incorporated.
  11. Book: Jody Berland. Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art. 2000. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-1726-4. 160–.
  12. Web site: La Voie lactée.
  13. News: Iconic lips of Montreal head to Paris underground - The Star. The Toronto Star. 22 April 2011.
  14. Web site: Kevin Tierney: The fabulous Cadieux sisters. We are a city in love - Montreal Gazette. Kevin. Tierney. Montreal Gazette . 7 October 2016.
  15. Web site: Dévoilement de l'œuvre " La Voix lactée " de Geneviève Cadieux par Henri de Raincourt, ministre chargé de la Coopération, et Jean Charest, Premier ministre du Québec (4 octobre 2011). Consulat général de France à Québec.
  16. Web site: O-Train Confederation Line . City of Ottawa . 17 September 2019 .
  17. Book: Artscribe. 1991. Artscribe Partnership.
  18. Web site: Geneviève Cadieux . www.gallery.ca . National Gallery of Canada . 7 September 2022.
  19. Web site: Art. 9 October 1995. The Independent.
  20. Web site: Prizes . Canada Council . 15 August 2022.
  21. Web site: Members since 1880 . Royal Canadian Academy of Arts . 11 September 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp . 26 May 2011 .
  22. Web site: National Gallery of Canada. 1 February 2014.
  23. Web site: Concordia artist Genevieve Cadieux wins Governor General's Award - Montreal Gazette. Peggy. Curran. Montreal Gazette. 24 February 2011.
  24. Web site: Genevieve Cadieux Barcelone . www.gallery.ca . National Gallery of Canada . 5 September 2022.
  25. Web site: Geneviève Cadieux Wins Prix Paul-Émile Borduas. Canadian Art.

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