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Research areas: noosphere, intervals, memory, temporality, brain functions, language, sampling, chance, pattern, order, surface, observation, poetry, portraiture, artist books, drawing, painting, collage, fake
Multidisciplinary artist Eric Simon's work revolves mainly around painting and drawing. Simon has shown his work in Canada and abroad in such venues as Musée de Joliette, Galerie Graff, Galerie Donald Browne in Montreal, Artmandat in France as well as a series of hit-and-run exhibitions in offbeat Montreal storefronts, offering visitors installations that managed to balance his affection for both Art Brut and realism. Simon is a founding member of Drawing Lab Dessin as well as a member of the inter-university research/creation group Stratégies artistiques de spatialisation du savoir initiated and directed by Suzanne Leblanc (Université Laval). He has published five books of fiction and poetry. He has received numerous grants and awards.
painting, drawing, poetry
intervals (between moments, between particles, between neurons, between ideas, between letters, between words, between people)
Sur les traces de l'avenir, published by L'Oie de Cravan, 2015
Oh oh mes amis oui (detail), acrylic on wood, 2018
Collapse (tribute to Lewitt), 3D prints, 2018
Advanced Topics in Painting & Drawing (Collage & Collision; Portrait & Likeness; Painting & the Digital)
Directed Studio Practice
Donald Browne Gallery, Montréal, 2015
Donald Browne Gallery, Montréal, 2014
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, 2011
Action art actuel, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, 2010
Galerie Aux perles, Barjols, France, 2008
Galerie Division, Montréal, 2008
Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, 2007
Galerie Graff, Montréal, 2007
Centre d’art Clark, Montréal, 2004
Galerie Pas de Tataouinage, Mtl, 2003
Camac centre d’art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France, 2003
Galerie Aux plus graves ennuis, Montréal, 1999
One Room Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland, 1998
Galerie Silk-Master, Montréal, 1997
Christoph Merian Stiftung, Bâle, Suisse, 1993
Galerie Clark, Montréal, 1991
Les mille et une phrases is an e-book published by Contre-mur, in Marseille in 2016. It is composed of 1001 sentences picked from 1001 books that I read between January 2011 and November 2012. All sources and references can be accessed by scrolling the cursor over the sentences as the reader progresses through the book. "Vous savez très bien qu’une phrase tirée de son contexte n’a pas d’intérêt.[i]"
[i] Amélie Nothomb, Les combustibles, Éditions Albin Michel S.A., Paris, 1994, p. 35
Sur les traces de l'avenir is a book of poems published by L'Oie de Cravan in Montreal in 2015. It speaks of the passage of time, memories, unfoldings and potentialities. "Rien ne me permet de deviner ce que m'apportera la seconde qui suivra." http://www.oiedecravan.com/cat/catalogue.php?v=a&id=29&lang=fr
Hamidou Diop is a graphic novel written by Eric Simon and illustrated by Simon Bossé. It was published by Mécanique Générale in Montreal in 2009. It is the story of an existential spy who is left on his own by his organization and must find a way to elucidate and survive the situation in which he finds himself. "Ces rideaux m'interpellaient. Cette référence explicite aux arts de la scène me plongeait dans un trouble insupportable quant à la réalité même de ma propre existence et par conséquent de celle de ma mission. J'avais passé de longs moments à me questionner sur la vraie nature de leur couleur. Faisait-elle même réellement partie du spectre lumineux?" http://editionsmecaniquegenerale.com/Livre/hamidou-diop
La visite du cerveau is a book published by L'Oie de Cravan in Montreal in 1999. It tells of the meanderings of the author through his own brain. "Ce mot "Aloha" me séduisait depuis quelques mois déjà. Je n'en finissais pas de le laisser tourner dans ma tête. Il était inextricablement lié aux colliers de fleurs dont on affuble les touristes à leur descente d'avion à Hawaï." http://www.oiedecravan.com/cat/catalogue.php?v=a&id=29&lang=fr
L'amoureux cosmique is a novel published by Boréal in Montreal in 1989. It tells the story of a man who suffers from a rare love disease. L'amoureux cosmique was adapted to the theater by Caroline Caza in 1991 and performed at le Studio d'Essai Claude-Gauvreau in Montreal. "Il vente si fort que les paroles, au sortir de la bouche, sont aussitôt happées par l'air qui les emporte, les abîme et les déforme en un éclair. Il vaut mieux s'abstenir de parler lors de journées semblables. Il ne s'agit plus de faits mais de probabilités. La trajectoire et la forme qu'adopteront les mots projetés de la bouche sont totalement imprévisibles." http://www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/catalogue/livres/amoureux-cosmique-316.html
Academy of Art and Design, Musée des cultures, Basel, Switzerland, 2017
Concordia University, Montréal, 2017
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Marseille, France, 2017
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Agadir, Morocco, 2014
Écoles des Arts visuels de l'Université Laval, Québec, 2014
Rotor Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden, 2009
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