November 17th 2011 to January 27th 2012

De la ville, il ne me reste que toi...

Solo exhibition  

"... I dragged my sketchbook everywhere around the world. Quickly, the book turned into cards that I posted from around the world to myself. Some designs even made me lurch ... too bad for them, they will not be in my show..."

- Normand Cousineau 
 


November 3rd to November 11th 2011

A drawing for Sainte-Justine 

Silent auction to raise money for the Sainte-Justine CHU Foundation

For the fourth consecutive year, illustrators offered some of their creativity by associating with a particular cause. This exhibition turn into a silent auction and will thereby raise money for the Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine.

The silent auction was also conduct on our Facebook page starting on November 4th 2011 !

Thanks to our partners Les éditions de la Bagnole and Soulières éditeur. 

September 30th to October 27th 2011 

Tête Bedaine Orteil 

Click on the image to access our interactive game and design your own character.

Thanks to Pascal Trahan for the application's design.

Illustration Quebec Gallery was please to invite you to discover the characters of 40 talented artists at the exhibition's opening of Tête Bedaine Orteil during the 15th edition of Les journées de la Culture, on Friday september 30th 2011 at 5 p.m.

Engraving, painting, collage and drawing were used on three wooden frames (one for the head, one for body and one for the feet) to create unique characters.

These works were decomposed and recomposed to introduce new characters for the exhibition. 

In addition, visitors were able to imagine their own creature by mixing the artists' work, using our interactive tool designed for the occasion.

September 1st to September 24th, 2011 

Les illusions By Patrick Bizier 

Solo exhibition 

The artist Patrick Bizier was pleased to invite you to his new exhibition Les illusions presentd at Illustration Quebec Gallery from September 1st 2011 to September 24th 2011. 

In this new series of works, consisting of some twenty paintings, the artist invites us to share his society's vision. 

"We live confident to know what beauty is, what the truth is. We live according to the scale of values ​​which was inculcated. Our ideals, our paradigms are prefabricated and shaped to our benefit because it is easier to go with the paths which was marked for us. We believe that is.
And if it was all an illusion? "

- Patrick Bizier 

June 7th to July 1st 2011 

Les écrivains de demain 

Book launch & Exhibition

Illustration Québec in collaboration with La Commission scolaire de Montreal (CSDM) were pleased to reveal the new exhibition Les écrivains de demain from the book of the same name. 

The book's launch, on June 7 th 2001, concludes the first edition of Les écrivians de demain contest which took place in March during the activities of La semaine du français. Every texts, written by thirteen students as well as images created by professional illustrators was showcase in a one month exhibition at the gallery of Illustration Quebec. 

This contest was an opportunity for young people who like to write, to participate in a writer's first experience, offering them the chance to work with a professional illustrator and to be published. 

May 5th to May 27th 2011

De biens belles balades 

Exhibition and book launch by Bellebrute edited by Les heures Bleues 

Bellebrute was born in a flash of joy between a «belle» and her «brute» Vincent Gagnon (Vigg) and Marianne

Chevalier have been working in the illustration field for many years. They join forces to create friendly

creatures, embellished with textures and patterned papers in a sober universe. 

In De bien belles balades, the reader is led to discover strange, funny, surprising and imaginative creatures. 

With this children's book Bellebrute created original images and proposed inspired texts. By reading the book,

children are invited to imagine their own "bien belles balades". 

April 26th to April 30th 

Dessine-moi des mots

Exhibition in collaboration with Communication-Jeunesse

Illustration Québec and Communication Jeunesse presented its first collaborate exhibition featuring children's literature.
 
This exhibition will travel across Quebec region to present the work of authors and illustrators of children's literature.
 
Communication Jeunesse and Illustration Québec selected 10 books published over the years regarding the theme of language, language game and love of the french language. A textual analysis and image analysis was unveiled at the exhibition which was host during the Blue Met Festival from April 27th to April 30th.

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 Copyrights: Communication-Jeunesse Laëtitia Matrat

1. Philippe Béha - illustrateur

2. Virginie Egger - illustratrice

3. Geneviève Côté - illustratrice

4. Johanne Gaudet DG de Communication-Jeunesse et Sophie Casson responsable du projet pour IQ

April 7th to 22th, 2011 

Illustrations à la carte 

From Cégep de Sherbrooke's students 

Illustration Québec Galerie and Cégep de Sherbrooke was proud to invite you to the opening of Illustrations à la carte on April 7th 2011 at 6 p.m. 

For the third consecutive year, graphic design students from Cégep de Sherbrooke displayed their talents in illustration. The menu included the best achievements in illustration from the graphic design program's students of Cégep de Sherbrooke. 

The pieces was representing the creativity and the passion of the students for the illustration in all its forms which gave you an avant-goût of our future designers. From appetizer to main course and dessert, the menu invited you to taste this refreshing visual experience. Bon appétit !

March 7th to April 1st, 2011

Têtes de fables et hommes de bêtes 

Based on Jean de La Fontaine’s work 

From Chantal Daoust 

Illustration Québec Galerie was please to welcome, from March 7 to April 1st, the exhibition Têtes de fables et hommes de bêtes from Chantal Daoust. 

With this new exhibition, 14 characters inspired by the work of Jean de La Fontaine come to life. The experience has challenged the artist to graphically illustrate some of the fabulists’ heroes. The center of her creative path was: anthropomorphism. Its creation juxtaposes human figures with animal heads using figurative collages. Finally, a foray into the world of texts by the author dresses the composition of a typographical integration where the formal approach predominates over the reading.

Chantal is a multidisciplinary artist who combines visual arts, graphic arts and scenic arts. Her new project responds to the one created in the context of her master degree in visual arts.

February 3rd to March 4th, 2011

La vie secrète de la reine à six jambes

From Alexandra Levasseur

Overview of the exhibition catalog

Illustration Québec Galerie was please to invite you to Alexandra Levasseur's new exhibition, from February 3rd to march 4th, 2011.

Alexandra addressed topics where co-exists several contradictions. Her works capture the desirable and undesirable, melancholy and humor, absurdity and reason. Each subject transmits an emotion, a story, through invented bodies, half human, half animal.

Alexandra is a visual artist who likes to explore the complexity of nature and its ongoing relationship with living beings; an imaginary world where geometric patterns and wallpapers are blending with soil, air, and trees.

This new exhibition, compose of 25 pieces, invited you to discover a universe using oil and collage as a medium.
  

November - december 2011 

A drawing for Sainte-Justine 

Illustration Québec, in collaboration with Les éditions de la Bagnole, presented from November 11th to December 11th 2010, an exhibition and a fundraiser for Sainte-Justine Hospital's Foundation. 

The exhibition was a showcase on the originality and diversity of the work from illustrators working in the children's book publishing in Quebec. The exhibition was an opportunity for image-makers to demonstrate their compassion to children with health problems. The work's sale took place as a silent auction at the Gallery and on our Facebook page. 

It is in early February 2011 that Illustration Québec gave nearly 30 books from which the illustration of the exhibition were created for, a mural (chosen by a public vote) from Manon Gauthier's illustration name Pétronille to embellish one wall of the hospital and a check of 2,800$ to Sainte-Justine Hospital's Foundation. 

Credit - Alain Reno

September - october 2010

L'actualité s'illustre !

You missed this great show ? Overview of the exhibition catalog

An exhibition of works created solely for L'actualité! Quebec is as shown highlighted the contribution of this magazine in the development of talented illustrators here. 

Thirty five works published in L'actualité, which has seen the emergence of great talents, Michel Rabagliati, Isabelle Arsenault through Gerard Dubois, Andre-Philippe Côté and Yayo, to name a few. Many of them have won multiple national and international awards. 

"Without taking anything away from photography, illustration explores areas more difficult to represent in the real world," said Jocelyne Fournel, artistic director of L'actualité. While relying on the contents of the text, becomes the illustrator and author, in turn, may shed new light on a subject.

"The picture grabs and stimulates the intellect of the reader even before he read a single word. Reflection given by the illustrator brings added value to the print, "says Sophie Casson, Illustration Quebec's president 

We could see the original works of illustrators, along with a reproduction of the article for which they were commissioned.