Video: Grotesque wax heads from an outrageous Canadian artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Louis Fortier's works are so grotesque that the viewer's emotions sometimes range from sheer disgust to curious admiration. A kind of game with a taste for the audience, it seems, Fortier is to his liking.
For the last ten years, Fortier has studied the phenomenon of the human head, and studied not abstractly, but in the most applied sense: the artist performed the most extraordinary manipulations with wax and plaster heads, fancifully changing the shape and playing with color. Fortier needed "cloning" his own head, playing with shapes, textures and sizes for a better understanding of himself as a person, for resignation to the idea that we live only one life.
In addition, the idea of multiple variations on the same theme raises difficult questions about randomness and unpredictability. Taking casts of forms before they harden, Fortier allows the material to change arbitrarily, without human intervention, and only then completes his creation. This is a kind of metaphor for human life: nature lays down the main features, and only then upbringing forms the personality.
Fortier heads of different sizes, made with anatomical precision, but with noticeable distortions, would look appropriate in the St. Petersburg Cabinet of Curiosities, or would fit into the working equipment for an American horror film, but these ambiguous creations adorn the walls of numerous Canadian art spaces.
Louis Fortier currently lives and works in Montreal. He received his BA from the Université Laval in Quebec and then, in 1994, his master's degree from the Université du Québec in Montreal. He has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout the province of Quebec, namely the B-312 Gallery, the Plein Sud Gallery, the Clark Gallery, and many others.
Something similar can be observed in the work of the infamous Genevieve Sunter. The French artist, however, is not at all concerned with the head. Taking inspiration from today's fast food and porn entertainment industry, Sunter shares ideas for quick fun with viewers.
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