Louis-Pierre Bougie is one of the most consistent and accomplished printmakers in Quebec. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec in 1946. He has a wide experience in engraving; he specialized in intaglio and etching in Paris, at Lacourière and Frélaut where he worked for more than fifteen years. He has made numerous trips to work and study in France, Portugal, Poland,...

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  Biography of Louis-Pierre Bougie

  Louis-Pierre Bougie is one of the most consistent and accomplished printmakers in Quebec. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec in 1946. He has a wide experience in engraving; he specialized in intaglio and etching in Paris, at Lacourière and Frélaut where he worked for more than fifteen years. He has made numerous trips to work and study in France, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Finland and New York.
  

   "Louis-Pierre Bougie has been producing a considerable amount of engraved and painted work for several years, using traditional techniques such as burin, aquatint, chine encollé, etc., to create a resolutely modern intaglio work. Bougie has developed an original technique of monotype, which uses the processes of engraving to integrate drawings made from live models. The technique is then reversed: the paper is already drawn with black stone and enhanced with acrylics before receiving the image from the plate: an inked copper plate, which will simply have been bitten beforehand by acid slurries (spit-bites) and a few scratches with a scraper. The printing serves rather to capture the whole in a supernatural transparency: to give light, that's what we mean by illumination. Thus, for Louis-Pierre Bougie, engraving becomes a process that allows to open and seal a space, where desire and imagination are deposited in a different way in the body matter, where light (by successive highlights and illumination) brings up the appearance in a different way and gives us back a part of ourselves," writes Michaël La Chance to define the artist's artistic approach.His works are regularly exhibited in Canadian, American and European galleries. Several of his works are part of major public and private collections, notably in Quebec and New York.Existence. The truth. The suffering. The struggle. The courage. Louis-Pierre Bougie writes in black stone the expressions of life.
  

  

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