Jérôme Ruby

By immersing the spectator in an imaginary, hypnotic world, Jérôme Ruby interrogates, through the diversity of the techniques applied, the contradiction and disproportion, the originality and superficiality of an art work. From the onset, the study of dysfunctional, organic forms has been an integral part of the artist's sculptural vocabulary. Yet beneath a game of contradiction, opposition and excess of representation, Jérôme Ruby cynically questions the "authenticity" of a work. He immerses the spectator in an imaginary world full of bewitching fictions, intimating to various fields of iconographical references: the style of the "western", folklore, rural traditions, multinational logos. Jérôme Ruby analyses, through a diversity of mediums such as video, drawing, sculpture, and painting, the disproportion, originality and superficiality of a work.

Biography

Jérôme Ruby has lived in Montreal since he carried out a residence at Quartier Éphémère in 2000. He completed his studies at the Beaux-Arts du Havre (France) and has exhibited in France and Quebec.

Recent exhibitions

2012	Oh my gods, galerie Donald Brown, Montreal histoires, Le Lieu, Québec City
2011	j’ai vu le loup..., Curator: René Viau, Maison des arts, Laval Art Amsterdam, Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal
2009	Gallery Median contemporary, Toronto. Curator: Rui Pimenta Up Art, Rooms of Wonder, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. Curator: Barbara Gilbert et Chris Mitchell Peux mieux faire, Atelier Punkt, Montreal, Curator: Emmanuel Galland Incroyables et merveilleuses, Musée d’art contemporain, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC. Curator: Martin Dufrasne
2008	Dans la nuit, des images, Productions du Fresnoy, Grand Palais, Paris. Curator: Alain Fleisher Me Myself Art, Darling Foundry, Montreal. Curator: Caroline Andrieux.
2005	Fort Mou, Darling Foundry, Montreal