ÉRIC LE MÉNÉDEU New Paintings
“By the Train Window” 2008 Oil and Casein on Canvas on Board 24 x 24 in.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Eric Le Ménédeu
ACROSS
New Paintings
March 1 –22, 2008
On Saturday, March 1st, the Mira Godard Gallery opens an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Éric Le Ménédeu. The artist will be in attendance.
Eric Le Ménédeu was born in Paris, France in 1962. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), he has lived and worked in Montreal since 1994. In 2001, he received RBC Investment’s Third Annual Canadian Painting Competition Award for Eastern Canada.
Le Ménédeu’s work can be found in important corporate collections including Alcan, Gildan, RBC Financial Group, Colart Collection, as well as numerous private collections.
“When I travel, especially when I return to France where I spent my childhood, I photograph the landscape – often without stopping, in passing. Later, in my studio, I paint inspired by these images. Nearly immobile, I paint these ideas of passage. I paint here, the other country over there. I paint now what formed me yesterday. I look at the other side. Once again, I move across the space and time that separate me from my memories.”
-Éric Le Ménédeu
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