GILLES MIHALCEAN - PACKAGES

From April 4 to May 4, 2024.

Chiguer Contemporary Art is honored to present PACKAGES, a solo exhibition by Gilles Mihalcean. A major figure in Canadian sculpture spanning more than fifty years of creative work, the artist is recognized for his significant contribution to the revival of sculpture in the 1980s in Canada, as well as his influence on several generations of artists.

In PACKAGES, a garden of symbolic sculptures unfolds within the gallery space, each work presenting itself as a visual metaphor to be deciphered. Poetic and narrative, Mihalcean’s inventive constructions, created through the assembly of sculpted representations of various shapes and everyday objects, stimulate the imagination and a sense of play. By diverting them from their usual function, the artist challenges the viewer’s perceptions and creates a space of freedom and escape conducive to the creation of new narratives. As the narrative character of his works is deliberately undefined, ambiguous, and open-ended, the possibilities for interpretation are virtually endless.