Normand Forget holds a BFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1986) and completed professional development internships in France and Quebec. A member of the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec and Les Ateliers convertibles (an artists’ centre in Joliette), he has created numerous architecturally integrated works. These include a sculpture mural at the École secondaire des Chutes in Rawdon, a low relief at the Lanaudière regional archive centre in L’Assomption (1992), a sculpture mural at the municipal library of Charlemagne (1992-1993) and a mural at the Auteuil primary school in Laval (1993). More recently, he completed an intervention in an alcove of the Saint-Jérôme cathedral entitled Le deuxième jour… (“on the second day…”), a reference to the second day of creation when God separated the waters. The work addresses the question famously posed by Paul Gauguin: Qui sommes-nous, d’où sommes-nous, où allons-nous? (“who are we, where do we come from, where are we headed?”). In addition to the environment, Forget’s art focuses on memory, historical roots and the traces left by our predecessors.
SEE:
« Parutions », ESPACE #82, p. 47.
