Pierre Leblanc was introduced to sculpture while working at the Fonderie expérimentale de Pierrefonds with André Fournelle and Armand Vaillancourt. In 1974, he settled in Val-David and helped to establish the Atelier de l’Île, where he refined his knowledge of printmaking and lithography with Michel Thomas Tremblay and Gilles Boisvert. He also took up sculpture during this time and began to produce performance art and projects for integrating art into architecture. Having designed numerous murals permanently installed across Quebec, Leblanc creates large- and medium-format works that frequently cite the great masters of art: he juxtaposes materials, at times including photographs, and exploits visual metaphors linked to cultural heritage. His interest in preserving heritage was demonstrated in 2011 when he exhibited a series of small church steeples entitled Signes et repères (Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides) and completed an altarpiece (Le Retable), inspired by that of Matthias Grünewald, for the Cathedral of Saint Jerome.
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« Pierre Leblanc ou l’art de la provocation » by Clément Fontaine, ESPACE, vol. 7, n° 3, p. 34.
« Forum : Culture / Culture » by Marie-Christiane Mathieu, ESPACE #35, p. 47.
« Pierre Leblanc : Tempus non fugit » by Claude Paul Gauthier, ESPACE #39, p. 43.
« Pierre Leblanc : Lieux de mémoire » by Claude Paul Gauthier, ESPACE #61, p. 42.
« Sculpture for Everyone » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #67, p. 5.
« Circa 1988-2008 : Entretien de Serge Fisette avec Yves Louis-Seize » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #87, p. 27.
« The Relation of Art and Power » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #89, p. 5.
« Pierre Leblanc. L’oeuvre intégrée à l’architecture, itération et dérivation » by Jocelyne Connolly, ESPACE #91, p. 30.
« Les énigmes du regard » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE, vol. 4, no 1, p. 20.
« Incontournable : La sculpture » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE, vol. 5, no 2, p 5.
« Pierre Leblanc, sculpteur : Vie mortelle d’un artiste » by Michel-Pierre Sarrazin, ESPACE # 22, p. 38.
« [Sans titre] », ESPACE # 81, p. 34.
« Pierre Leblanc. Signes et repères : Entretien de Serge Fisette avec Pierre Leblanc » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE # 98, p. 27.
