Jean-Marie LABERGE

CANADA-QUÉBEC, CHICOUTIMI
SPC-AIBAQ-RAAV-CAPSQ-MAESTRIA-NSA-BREV-SBA
bronze wood, plaster tech. Mixed
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Jean-Marie Laberge was born in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada.

Once he had obtained his Teaching Diploma and a B.A. in Art from Montréal University, he taught for a few years in Québec and spent the next seven years in Malawi (Central Africa). On his way back to Canada, he studied one year in London at John Cass College School of Arts, where he refined his techniques in drawing, painted and sculptured portraits and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma. Then, he was at Catholic University in Washington D.C. He left with an MFA (Master of Fine Arts Degree) major in sculpture.

Giving up painting, in 1972 he started sculpting, and this remained ever since his favorite way of expressing himself. His usual themes are the human figure specially WOMAN- very few artists succeed so well in rendering woman's kindness, gentleness, elegance in so few words-,TORSO - he recreates it : more than twenty different prototypes. How can he show so much in so few lines?- Finally the BIRD - whose soul alone he keeps, and what a bird!

Already when he had is first exhibition, an Art Critic wrote:" He is the artist in movements, gestures and words. Yes, he puts words in the curves of time."

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