A l'affiche - Retour en arrière

Guillon, Studio Feed, 2017 / PrésentED In 2017 As Part OF Collectif blanc's exhibition Édition / Forme / Expérimentation 
photo : Jean-MichAel Seminaro

Myriam Dion, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, François Lacasse, Micah Lexier, Julie Trudel and Studio Feed
À l’affiche : retour en arrière
From September 6 to October 13, 2018
Opening on Thursday, September 6, at 5:30 p.m.

For its new exhibition line-up, le Magasin is happy to present À l’affiche : retour en arrière a retrospective revisiting the last three years of the À l’affiche project.

Developed by Arprim since 2013, À l’affiche encourages the creation of original prints, printed images and posters by contemporary Canadian and Quebec artists, both renowned and emerging. For three years now, this project is produced in collaboration with UQAM’s school of visual and media arts, and promotes the integration of emerging artists in the professional art milieu, all while generating an independent revenue that helps fund Arprim’s activities through the sale of artwork.

The process is simple: each year, one or two professional artists are invited to design an image for a limited-edition print, which is then screen-printed by paid art students. Always working towards the advancement of the printed arts, Arprim makes sure to select guest artists whose practices do not generally incorporate this medium. The idea is to give them a space to explore, as well as the proper technical support. In this context, the artist’s own creative vision is combined with the advanced printmaking skills of the students, to initiate an exchange in which each participant benefits from the other’s high level of expertise.

For three years now, these collaborations have yielded quality, original and exclusive works that fully embrace the limits and possibilities afforded by screen-printing. In the exhibition, works produced for a previous edition of À l’affiche are shown next to others by the same artists, demonstrating how each project fits in with their authors’ artistic approach, their formal and conceptual concerns, as well as the recurring themes in their practice. How did François Lacasse and Julie Trudel connect screen-printing to their approach as painters? How did Myriam Dion’s own meticulous cut-outs inform the creation of such hypnotically detailed images? How did the Feed graphic design studio’s work in typography influence their Guillon series of posters? This exhibition gives visitors a glimpse into the wealth of potential that the art of print has to offer, especially when in the hands of artists from such diverse backgrounds as the ones brought together by the À l’affiche project year after year.

Arprim would like to thank the Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Artexte as well as the artists and collaborators for the generous loan of works.

The exhibition will set the stage for the launch of À l’affiche’s new edition, on October 9, featuring an exclusive diptych by Montreal artistYann Pocreau. Also, for a limited time only, all prints from previous editions will be on sale at their original launch price! Visit the online shop to know more.

Launch event - November 15, 2017

Arprim wishes to thank all of A l'affiche partners and collaborators who contributed to the project's success :

 The artists and their galleries : Micah Lexier (Birch Contemporary) and Studio Feed
The production team : Professor Gwenaël Bélanger, student-printers Alexandre Ménard, Dominique Desbiens, Richelli Fransozo and Catherine Landry and technicians Jacinthe Loranger and Mathieu Jacques from École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM.
Arprim's team: Emmanuelle Choquette, Marie-Pier Bocquet, Sandrine Briand and Jessie Cabot
Arprim's board of directors : Céline Huyhebaert, Gwenaël Bélanger, Majorie Paré, Carolyne Scenna, John Latour, Alexandre Ménard and Antoine Brylowski
Web and graphic design : Patrick Bourque, Gabriel Jasmin and Maxime Archambault
Translation : Alexandre Payer
Volunteers: Francys Chénier, Jeanne-Hélène Savoie, John Latour, Marie-Ève Leclerc-Parker and Jacinthe Loranger.
Venue and equipment: Circa Art actuel, Galerie Dominique Bouffard and Centre des arts actuels Skol. 
À l'affiche partners : Caisse de la Culture, Tout Autour Encadrement , Écoles des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM
Sponsors of the launch event : GUSTA, Microbrasserie l'Alchimiste, Première Moisson, IGA Louise Ménard, Automne Boulangerie, La Fromagerie du Vieux St-François, Michel Records, Cinéma Beaubien et Cinéma du Parc, Atkins et Frères, Dare to Care Records, Hôtel Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriott, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, LA SERRE - arts vivants , CIRCA art actuel 

2017 Edition

The artist Micah Lexier



Anouk pennel, of studio feed, with Professor and A l'affiche coordinator Gwenaël Bélanger

Arprim is proud to announce the collaboration with renowned Canadian artist Micah Lexier and Montreal-based design studio Feed for À l'affiche, a project focused on the creation of original prints and posters by contemporary artists.

For a third year in a row, À l'affiche is produced in partnership with Université du Québec à Montréal's École des arts visuels et médiatiques. It allows printing arts students to get better acquainted with the printing process, while giving them a chance to work in close collaboration with the artists on the production of one of their pieces. 

On June 6 and 7, 2017, Micah Lexier visited the printed arts department of École des arts visuels et médiatique and started working on the prints that will be unveiled in November 2017 ! 

The artist with professor and À l'affiche coordonator Gwenaël Bélanger and director of Galerie de l'UQAM, Ms Louise Déry.



The artist presented his work to visual arts students.