• Symposium of Baie-Saint-Paul
Artistic director

Sylvie Lacerte, Ph.D.

Artistic director
Sylvie Lacerte, Ph.D.

Today, the question of the environment is crucial. The Paris Agreement, rejected by the government of the United States; our oceans, now the planet’s garbage bins; the discussions around the electrification of mass and individual transportation; and the desire to end our dependency on fossil fuels are issues which have become a part of some artistic practices. This theme represents an opportunity to think about art in the environment more globally in order to express the flagrant problems with which we are confronted today. We might then think of erecting a laboratory of building and land art 3.0 (built, natural, social, historic, artistic, technological) for the 2019 edition of the Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium.



Honorary President

Linda Covit

Honorary President
Linda Covit

Her interest is in the development of site responsive work that lies in the challenge of rendering a site with new meaning or heightening what is already there; in creating a gesture that transforms a public space into a personal experience; in creating a work that instils a sense of place. Scale, acknowledgement of the viewer, a harmonious relationship of the built with the natural are some of her concerns.

Brief History

Founded in 1982 by Françoise Labbé under the name of the International Symposium of Young Painting in Canada, the International Contemporary Art Symposium of Baie-Saint-Paul is a unique event in Quebec, recognized both in Canada and abroad.

Art: Our Passion!

A live creation experience: thirteen artists at work, from Quebec, Montreal and elsewhere in Quebec, as well as Canada, the United States and from everywhere around the world !

2019

Program

  • July 2019
  • August 2019

Opening

Friday, July 26th
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7h30 PM
Opening

OFFICIAL OPENING

The artists arrive in town and salute the residents in
a festive parade along the streets of Baie-Saint-Paul ...

Lecture

Saturday, July 27th
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4h30 PM
Lecture

DISCUSSION WITH HONORARY PRESIDENT LINDA COVIT

Linda Covit, honorary president of the Symposium, will discuss her public art projects with the artistic director ...

Movie

Thursday, August 1st
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8h00 PM
Movie

BRASILIA : LIFE AFTER DESIGN

Documentaire, Canada, 2017, 88 min _ Réalisateur : Bart Simpson

...

Presentation

Friday, August 2nd
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4h30 PM
Presentation

SYLVIE BOUCHARD

...
2019

Artists

ANNE ARDOUIN

BIO The visual artist, filmmaker and scholar Anne Ardouin has carried out numerous scholarly and poetic projects which address the relations between humans and their environment, their landscape and their imaginary realms ...

GEORGES AUDET

BIO Georges Audet holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Université Laval (1982) ...

CATHERINE BÉCHARD + SABIN HUDON

BIO Over the past few years, work by Béchard Hudon has been exhibited at the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine in Trois-Rivières, the International Digital Art Biennial, the Quebec Digital Art in NYC event in Brooklyn, the Device Art triennial in Zagreb and the National Museum of China ...

SYLVIE BOUCHARD

BIO Sylvie Bouchard’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues such as the Musée régional de Rimouski, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal ...

2019

Presented by

Casino Charlevoix





We Also Thank Our

Partners and Collaborators

Québec Canada Conseil des arts BSP RBC Tourisme Charlevoix Association des musées Desjardins Germain Fabrique Esse Inter





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