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| Bernard A Poulin | |
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Born: Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 04/01/45 |
| About the Artist | |
I am inspired by the many who came before me and the times I live in. |
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Asclepius Falls
1995 |
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| *Asclepius was the god of healing. His symbol remains to this day a rough hewn staff entwined by a single sacred serpent of healing. The staff of Asclepius has always been the correct symbol of the science and art of healing. One who deals with an Asclepian practice is a patient.
*Caduceous is usually a polished knobbed rod entwined by two snakes. It is often winged, as was Mercury. The caduceous is at times mistakenly used (even by medical associations) as the symbol of medicine and healing. In reality it has always been the symbol of merchants, thieves and alchemy. Pharmaceutical companies and some medical military services have adopted the caduceous whose relationship with medicine has always had more to do with medicating than healing. One who deals with Caduceous is a client.
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Me
1995 |
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| The sixties were a self-centered era. But then came the seventies and the eighties and the nineties. These decades not only matched the sixties in self-indulgence they were ever moreso and therefore ever more ME so. . .
And so, I simply accepted that that was that. . .
That not only was good about me but also bad and indifferent were about Me. . .
Everything is about me in this age when, self-righteously, even nothing is about me. . . |
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A Boy Dreams. . .
1999 |
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| Several years ago, while sitting on a park bench whose back abutted another, I overheard two adults watching a group of 5 & 6 year old boys play. The one overheard comment which has stayed with me these past many years is the following:
"Though I could never be particularly fond of any of "them". . . I can only imagine how dangerous "that one" is going to be one day. . .
What our world has forgotten is that a child, boy or girl, is only as healthy as the behaviours, aspirations and expectations we inflict upon them.
But, then, it takes more than the denegration of a gender and the demeaning of the very essence of maleness to turn boys or men away from being who they are. And much of who they are and forever will be is to be boys dreaming of being men who dream of being boys who dream of being men. . . From the time a youngster realizes that the person he admires most is "male" and that he too is male, he begins to dream of being that man. And with time, he simply dreams of being "a" man. And once that is achieved, it is inevitable that he begins to dream once again of being the boy who dreamt of being a man. . . A healthy male is never more complicated than that and never more dangerous than that. |
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A Pall
2003 |
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| A Pall of Vengeance Is In The Air. . .
Our world spins in strange and dangerous ways these days. . . It seems that as long as I maintain focus on what I perceive your wrongs to be, and encourage others to do the same, I will neither have to look for nor even admit to mine - nor fear that the stare, the sneer, the hate will one day fall upon me. . .
A sanctimonious tinge taints the swagger of contemporary righteousness. A cancerous growth of “let’s get’em!” scars the very souls which forever cry foul. And, increasingly, the anxious smiles of the masses are taking on the pretentious superiority of a collective arrogance.
We forget (because remembering and “never again” are not contemporary fortes) that by casting a first stone the winds of enmity raises a pall of stench and vengeance into the air. A veil which, eventually, alights upon us all. Nonetheless, the titillation holding it aloft is a powerful and addictive drug. It thrives on a voyeurism born of the pain of others. And we forget that it will require increased dosages to maintain this superiority high. . .
And sadly, this translates into the vengeful mood, the imposition of the self on others and the envious jealousies which ensue. There is a pall of vengeance in the air and it is local, regional, national and international and of it we must not only be aware but wary. A self-righteous pall of vengeance floats in the air and its crushing weight will one day make victims of us all. |
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Victims R Us
2000 |
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| Fear is beginning to make us over into its own image and that is: victim |
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| Education and biography | |
| Solo Exhibitions: 2005: (Paris Plus) - Salon Belisle, Ottawa, Canada 2004: "Vacances" - Galerie Saint-Roch, Paris, France 2000: Jerusalem Exhibition, Soloway Centre, Ottawa, Canada 1998: Provence Exhibition, Hôtel Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada 1996: Tuscany/Venice Exhibition, Château Laurier, Hotel, Ottawa, Canada 1996: Italy Exhibition, Blake Gallery, Sudbury, Canada 1994: Windjammer Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda 1990: Retrospective from 10 to 45 years old), Galerie de la Salle, Ottawa, Canada 1988: Crisson & Hind Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda 1987: Conseil des arts de Hearst, Hearst, Canada 1986: Laurentian Univ. Mus. & Arts Centre, Sudbury, Canada 1986: Cambrian Rose Gallery, Ottawa, Canada 1985: Touring Exhibition, Cornwall, Rockland, Hawkesbury, Canada 1985: Galerie 555, North Bay, Canada 1984: Capital Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada 1984: St-Georges Town Hall, St-Georges, Bermuda 1984: Maison de la culture, Glendon Coll., York Univ. Toronto, Canada 1982: Galerie Gauthier, Sudbury, Canada 1980: La Galleria Gallery, Sudbury, Canada 1979: Laurentian University Museum & Art Center, Sudbury, Canada 1978: York Gallery, Ottawa, Canada 1978: Galerie de la Salle - (retrospective), Ottawa, Canada 1977: York Gallery, Ottawa, Canada 1976: Galerie Rodrigue Lemay, Ottawa, Canada 1975: Crossroads Gallery, Ottawa, Canada 1974: Gallery 5, Ottawa, Canada 1973: Gallery 5, Ottawa, Canada 1972: Gallery 5, Ottawa, Canada 1967: Sandy Hill Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Education: After being ejected from my first art class, at the age of ten, I went on to teach myself what I needed to know. |
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| Future shows | |
| 2007:"Grande tournée" - 40th anniversary exhibition 2007: "Parole" Exhibition - a social commentary on the Millennial Cusp years (1995 - 2005) |
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