Programming
Is it the line of the fluid, imprecise bodies and the color that follow the shape and texture of the frame in Louis Fortier... or perhaps it's more accurate to say that the various wood or paper supports used are cut, folded or unfolded like an accordion to embrace the color and movement of the bodies.
A vision of blurred, intertwined bodies and heads in spaces rub shoulders or follow one another like sequences of juxtaposed panels which, because of their divergent inclinations, produce a diffraction effect. This movement within the rigid, static frame marries the supple, organic way in which Louis Fortier depicts the human body.
Louis Fortier studied Art History at U.Q.A.M. and Visual Arts at Université Laval. In 1988, he participated in two group exhibitions at the Banff Centre in Alberta: Turbulence at The Walter Phillips Gallery and Zeitfragmente at Other Gallery. In 1985, he exhibited at the Vieux Port de Québec as part of the Université Laval graduating students' art exhibition, and in 1984, he was selected by jury to participate in a Université Laval student exhibition at the Galerie des Arts visuels in Sainte-Foy. Special projects: Summer Art Studio, Banff Centre (1988) and monumental sculpture at Galerie-boutique Ho! in Montreal (1986).