7th edition Beauce Art: L’International de la sculpture

International Sculpture Symposium: from May 24th to JUNE 14th, 2020

2020 Thematic
Irradiant : brightly shinning

In its 7th edition Beauce Art : L’International de la sculpture has organized a Symposium highlighting the importance of radiance in art sculpture. The theme of this edition explores different meanings of light and its reflection in nature, brightness, brilliance and the effect of shining. A sculpture must emit or reflect light; it has to be bright, glowing in the air with the sixth sense of the sculptor. Artwork commands a shining effect or a radiant vibration, it is a propulsing object, and that is what it demands from the sculptor for 2020 edition. A glittering sense of poetry in stone or metal, depicting a possibility of going beyond what is given, a kind of spiritual moment on a work of art in nature. Nowadays, we need to see the shining stars! This how the sculptors should start to think about a proposal for this seventh edition of international Symposium of sculpture of Saint-Georges.

Art in publicly accessible places should be effective for the broad range of viewers with reflective, translucent, vibrant and radiant qualities. Space exists in slumber until we awaken it. The project selected will deflect us from our usual unthinking aesthetic habits and will give us access to new levels of sophistication between perceptual and neurological shining geometries and world we perceive and build. Personally, it is radiant and poetic when a sculpture has resistance and power working together creating radiance that escapes from the artistic system of the sculptor. The meaning rises to the surface like perceptual resistors and it is irradiant on all sides recreating a sensation of the sky on earth in St-Georges, Quebec, Canada.

In sculpture, any material can be used but this edition emphasizes shining materials paying close attention to conceptualisation, improvisation, problem solving and irradiance. The magic of making! The freedom of creating with radiance! Sculpture is the silent key to the world we can encounter every second of every day; it has to shine, and does not have to be in a fixed position for the viewer. It is only fully revealed through a process of physically moving around it. It is a way of production that builds a relationship with a viewer and a site. Rethinking radiance, brightness and its shining effects in fresh air! Welcoming the sculptors, their thinking, their understanding, their perceiving and their creation! Redefining what sculpture can be.

Thematic written and presented to sculptors by Joseph-Richard Veilleux, artistic director of Beauce Art : L’International de la sculpture in June, 2019

Description of the 2020 site

The sculpture installation site of the 2020 edition is located in a large space of more than one kilometer which includes a pedestrian cycling track, which runs along the river, separated from a parking lot on its full length.

A green space of 1 meter wide separates the two. The parking lot is served by a one-way road on its full length.

This newly redone space is part of the history of St. George’s to keep traffic in the old city center, and in terms of pedestrian cycling track, it is an important link in a project called Come to the River, which allowed, through an inflatable dam to create a pond of more 2 km.

We need to forget about cars, vans and other parked vehicles, Ville de Saint-Georges has accepted that we install our sculptures at more or less than 3 meters from the ground in the green space on more or less a third of the length of the site. The setting of this space and the lack of islands of greenery prevents us from installing sculptures in the traditional way on base. To enhance the visual effect, we propose to install your work in or around a metal circle, which is installed on a steel pole.