Alexandre David
Alexandre David's approach is based on the cyclical principle of reusing materials, assembling them into ephemeral structures, and then dismantling them to build the next project. The artist configures his assemblages in such a way as to recreate spatial sensations linked to our relationship with architecture, such as walking along a wall, turning a corner, or circulating around a square. The use of his projects is never prescriptive. On the contrary, the designer anticipates simple, even informal applications, which, through accumulation and encounters with the user, inspire alternative possibilities. Alexandre David's work thus takes on its formal and functional scope through the movements and gestures that interact with his pieces, whether experienced alone or in a group.
Biography
Alexandre David is a Montreal-based visual artist and professor at the École d'art de l'Université Laval in Quebec City. His projects have been presented in various museums, galleries, artist-run centers and events in Canada, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Mexico, Colombia and China, including at Blockhaus HUB in Nantes, France in 2015, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides in St-Jérôme in 2017, Galerie Parisian Laundry in Montreal in 2018, Fonderie Darling in 2018, Musée Casino du Luxembourg in 2019, Galerie Occurrence in Montreal in 2023, Casa de la Primera Imprenta in Mexico City in 2023 and Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2023.
Recent exhibitions
| 2024 | Déliquescence, group exhibition, Fonderie Darling, Montreal |
| 2023 | Titles 8, group exhibition, NADA, Bogota, COL Brutalisme parallèle, group exhibition, Galerie L’Œil de Poisson, Québec, CAN Titles 8, groupe exhibition, Casa de la Primera Impreta de America UAM, MX Breathing in China: Art, Ethics, and Environment, group exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, CAN Ouvrages, group exhibition, Galerie Occurrence, Montréal, CAN Assignment, group exhibition, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CAN |
| 2022 | Galerie Criterium, solo exhibition, Québec, CAN MODELS: an assembly of schematics, group exhibition, Christie Contemporary, Toronto, CAN |
| 2011 | Plate-forme, Place publique, Fonderie Darling, Montréal Split, Parisian Laundry, Montréal La Triennale québécoise 2011, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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