Marion Wagschal: pensées sur papier / thoughts on paper

June 25 - September 12, 2015Opening: June 25, 2015 from 6 to 8:30 pm

Can you tell us more about your relationship with drawing?

Drawing is a kind of secret practice. I am constantly keeping little notebooks and making drawings from observations, long studies and quick impressions, keeping a log of experiences, ideas, conversations, and comments that people make. I make drawings that evolve over a period of days and something emerges that surprises me, that has a certain power. I end up with many references from comic book characters, the news, memories and the history of drawing. Sometimes, I do large-scale drawings of a very small moment. Many are works related to paintings.*
 
*Excerpt from a conversation between the artist and curators Marie-Eve Beaupré and Stephane Aquin, from the publication Marion Wagschal printed in conjunction with the retrospective of the artist at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and currently at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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