Created and Sold by Yechel Gagnon
Oceanic Legends - Solo show - Wall Hangings
Featured In Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada
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The artworks created for the series of Oceanic Legends explore the pinnacle point of the technique Yechel Gagnon developed more than 20 years ago. Working in synergy with the specific properties of different woods, she carves, rips away, draws, insculps to discover layers which reveal the hidden colours to create her specific imagery. With this process, Gagnon interweaves her visual language that oscillates between abstraction and representation with those intrinsic to the material. This effect evokes an imaginary landscape where land and sea appear before us, where cavernous spaces are excavated and sweeping valleys emerge. We perceive the work as an aerial perspective and then all of sudden we are plunged into a terrestrial realm. An oscillation between the macro and the micro fluctuates before our eyes like fractals. It is the viewer’s interpretation that dictates the scale of what is being seen. These different viewpoints are similar to traditional Chinese painting where one can see many different perspectives intertwine all into one image.
Item Oceanic Legends - Solo show
Created by Yechel Gagnon
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