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MEDIA KIT JEAN-MARIE MAHIEU VOIR CLAIR EXHIBITION 14 February — 17 May 2015 SALLE SAINT-GEORGES GRAND-PLACE, MONS www.sallesaintgeorges.mons.be
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MEDIA KIT
JEAN-MARIEM A H I E UVOIRCLAIR
EXHIBITION 14 February — 17 May 2015
SALLE SAINT-GEORGES GRAND-PLACE, MONS
www.sallesaintgeorges.mons.be
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.
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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.
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Jean-Marie Mahieu, photo Nathalie Amand
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“ Vue d’ici ” “ Maison de l’être ”
Featured images are available to download : http://www.polemuseal.mons.be/presse/dossiers-de-presse
5“ Echapper à la grisaille II ”
“ De natura, suite ”
6“ D’un lieu, l’autre ”
“ Tous les gris, sfumato ”
7“ Le lieu de la peinture ”
“ Station, V, suite ”
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WHEN 14 FEBRUARY — 17 MAY 2015
WHERE SALLE SAINT-GEORGES 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€
CONTACTS Juliette PICRY Porte-parole Ville de Mons 0497970873 [email protected]
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
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