ALAIN LEFORT

Alain Lefort vit et travaille à Montréal. Diplômé d’une majeure en photographie de l’Université Concordia, l’artiste diffuse son travail depuis le début des années 1990. Prenant pour sujets des éléments de la nature et du territoire, sa démarche aborde le médium photographique en confrontant les limites du réel et de l’abstraction. Il s’intéresse à l’histoire des lieux et à l’empreinte du vivant dans son environnement. La nature offre au regard du photographe des lignes, formes, couleurs et contours, une matière picturale en attente d’un travail précis de cadrage. En isolant un fragment de nature, Lefort se l’approprie et le transforme en tableau. Cette découpe visiblement très fragmentaire pointe vers le hors-champ, l’immensité de l’espace naturel dont elle a été extraite.

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Florida Trail III, 2012, tirage 1/9 ( 24 x 36 po / 61 x 91 cm)

Black Mangrove Forest #3, 2013, tirage 1/5 (40 x 60 po / 102 x 152 cm)

Seraph 110, 2013, tirage 1/10 (18 x 24 po / 46 x 61 cm)

Seraph 009, 2013, tirage 1/10 (24 x 36 po / 60 x 90 cm)

Alain LEFORT

 

Following the pioneer of Land Art and Arte Povera in photography (Giuseppe Penone, Richard Long and Hiroshi Sugimoto) and in a renewed technical approach, Alain Leford is interested by the history of the site and by the imprint of life in its environment. The nature offers, to the photographer’s eyes, shapes, colors and contours, a pictorial material waiting to be precise by a framing work. By isolating a fragment of nature, the photographer appropriates it and transforms it into a painting. This obviously very fragmentary cut points towards the off-field, the immensity of the natural space from which it was extracted.

Alain Lefort lives and works in Montreal. Graduate of a major in photography from Concordia University (1995), the artist has been exhibited his work since the early 1990s. Taking as his subjects elements of nature and territory, his approach reach the photographic medium by sometimes confronting it by the limits of the real and the abstract. Alain Lefort has over fifty exhibitions, both individual and collective, in Quebec and abroad (Albania, the United States, Portugal …). His works have been acquired by Cirque du Soleil, theMusée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Loto-Québec and UMA (the House of Image and Photography). His work has also been the subject of several publications.

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Enfin l’été
Montreal (6/17/2016 – 9/3/2016)

Group exhibition Summer 2016
Montreal (4/7/2016 – 5/8/2016)

Group exhibition Autumn 2015
Montreal (10/1/2015 – 10/31/2015)

Group exhibition Autumn 2015
Quebec (9/18/2015 – 10/30/2015)

Group exhibition Spring 2015
Montreal (5/1/2015 – 5/31/2015)

Au cœur du Mont Qâf
(9/5/2013 – 9/28/2013)

Alain Lefort
Quebec (3/10/2012 – 4/1/2012)

Galerie Lacerte: 30 years
Montreal (12/7/2011 – 1/15/2012)

Group exhibition Summer 2011
Montreal (6/18/2011 – 9/9/2011)

Alain Lefort, with Ivan Binet
(2/8/2009 – 3/6/2009)

Group exhibition
(8/18/2008 – 9/11/2008)