Charles Gagnon

Histoire naturelle VI (Nubilæ), 1988-1991

© The Estate of Charles Gagnon • Photo: courtesy of Galerie René Blouin

Charles Gagnon, Histoire naturelle VI (Nubilæ), © The Estate of Charles Gagnon • Photo: courtesy of Galerie René Blouin
Artist
Charles Gagnon
Title
Histoire naturelle VI (Nubilæ)
Dimensions and medium
2 silver gelatin prints and oil on masonite, 76.5 × 336.5 cm (overall)
Artwork description
Photography and painting form the basis of Charles Gagnon’s artistic practice. Deeply and rigorously researched, these two mediums, to which he devoted himself in turn from the 1950s onward, inevitably came together in his works from the 1990s. The motif of the landscape, one of his preferred subjects, acts as both a pictorial theme and a conceptual framework within his practice. In his series Histoire naturelle VI, 1988-1991, Gagnon juxtaposes photographs of the ocean, the forest and the sky with sombre and opaque oil monochromes that are modified by the light reflecting off their textured surface. Belonging to this series, Nubilæ consists of two black and white photographs of cloudy skies and one oil painting in greyish tones. While the photographs are similar by virtue of their formal and abstract characteristics, the monochrome painting, through its textured treatment and its insertion within this visual suite, conveys the tumultuous essence of the stormy clouds that accompany it.

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