An exhibition to discover the colors of Marcelle Ferron

The artist Marcelle Ferron would have been 100 years old in 2024. To mark this centenary, the Raymond-Lasnier exhibition center in Trois-Rivières is hosting a vibrant and colorful exhibition that highlights the works of this artist from Louiseville.

Marcelle Ferron is an essential artist in the history of Art in Quebec and Canadaexplains the director of visual arts at Culture Trois-Rivières, Marie-Andrée Levasseur. She is one of the great abstraction painters of the 20^e century.

And it is with Marcelle Ferron – The colorful gesture that visitors will be able to discover or rediscover until March 9, 2025 the great creations of one of the signatories of Overall refusal.

For us, it is important to shed light on the work of a local artist [à l’occasion] of its centenary.

Died in November 2001, Marcelle Ferron devoted part of her career to glass work. We see them in the metro in Montreal, and in Trois-Rivières, we have a work of public art at Sainte-Marie hospitaladds the director of visual arts at Culture Trois-Rivières.

In August 2023, she was designated a historical person by the government of Quebec.

She was a revolutionary lady, with great freedomcontinues Marie-Andrée Levasseur. I think she had convictions: she wanted to be herself and do what she wanted to do.

She quickly knew in her life that she wanted to be a painter and she made her choices accordingly.

Color, movement and rhythm

Throughout the exhibition devoted to the artist, the first presented in Trois-Rivières since the 1990s, color, movement and rhythm become belts of emotional transmission.

The importance of color is at the heart of his artistic production, whether in painting or in his work on glass.explains Marie-Andrée Levasseur. What we remember from his work is a desire to bring color into life and to bring emotions to life.

Culture Trois-Rivières in turn hopes to transmit these emotions to visitors to the Raymond-Lasnier exhibition center.