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Joëlle Morosoli (born 1951)[1] is a French-Canadian sculptor[2] of French and Swiss descent. Her work takes the form either of installations or of architecturally integrated art in public buildings. Most of her works have moving parts, driven by mechanical systems.

Joëlle Morosoli
Joëlle Morosoli
Born1951 (age 7071)
Strasbourg, France
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversité Laval, Paris 8 University
Known forSculptor
MovementKinetic art
Patron(s)Edmond Couchot

Biography


Born of a French mother, Gisèle Talbot, and a Swiss father, Erwin Morosoli, Joëlle immigrated to Quebec with her family in 1961.

Morosoli completed a bachelor's degree in visual arts at Laval University in Quebec City in 1975. In 1997, she moved to Paris where she undertook doctoral studies at Paris 8 University.[3] On her return to Quebec, she took part in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Many of her projects are produced as part of the government's policy of integrating art into architecture.[4]

In 2004, Joëlle married Rolf Morosoli in Montreal, where she lives. She has taught at Cégep de Saint-Laurent (college) since 1998.[5]


Artistic approach


Morosoli began using movement as a kind of material very early in her career. Her sculptures "stylize certain movements observed in plant, animal and aquatic worlds... to express the world of the subconscious, wherein threatening emotional energies lie buried..."[6]

Whereas movement in kinetic sculptures like mobiles often originates from a natural source, such as wind or water, Morosoli equips each sculpture or installational element with a small motor that generates an even, often barely perceptible rhythmical motion. These movements will suddenly reveal new colours or forms, and sometimes reconfigure the entire work. Spectators move freely through the installations, witnessing the changes, while the slowness of the transformation creates a state of tension, of discovery and expectancy.[7]

Her architecturally-integrated work conjures natural forms and movement. The breadth of the movements, the rhythms, and the resulting changes in form and colour manage to suggest a range of emotions.[8]


Main works


Joëlle Morosoli has presented more than thirty solo exhibitions throughout Canada and Quebec. She was also invited to take part in major group exhibitions at such venues as the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. In 2002, she was selected to represent Quebec at ArtCanal, part of Expo.02 in Switzerland.

She has more than twenty public artworks to her credit, including the Palais des Congrès in Gatineau, Centre Mère-Enfant in Quebec City, and Centre d’hébergement Roland-Leclerc in Trois-Rivières.

Morosoli is also a writer. Her first novel, Le sablier de l'angoisse, won second prize for the 1986 Prix Robert-Cliche. She also published Le ressac des ombres, in 1988, and a collection of poetry Traînée rouge dans un soleil de lait in 1984.

She co-founded the art journal Espace, for which she was assistant editor from 1987 to 1997. She teaches visual art at Cégep de Saint-Laurent where she also coordinates the visual arts and art history department.




Installations



Public art



Solo exhibitions



Public art



Publications



Bibliography



See also



References


  1. Holmes, Gillian (June 1, 1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780920966556 via Google Books.
  2. "Artist/Maker name " Morosoli, Joelle"". www.app.pch.gc.ca. Government of Canada. 1987. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. "Joelle Morosoli". www.artpublicmontreal.ca. ART PUBLIC MONTREAL. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. Jean Julio-Paquin in Intégration des arts à l'architecture. Cinquante ans d’art public, Revue Formes, vol. 8, no. 1, 28 and 30, February 2012
  5. Nathalie Roy in Art en mouvement : L'effet Morosoli, Vie des arts, no. 217, Montréal, January 2010, p. 72
  6. Elizabeth Wood in Joëlle Morosoli: Pièces/Pièges, An exhibition of sculpture in movement, Arts Atlantic, no. 42, 3, Prince Edouard Island, 1992.
  7. Rémi Aboussouan in Camaïeu: une exposition qui ne restera pas dans l’ombre, Le Point d’Outremont, September 11, 2009
  8. France Simard in L’émotion par le mouvement, Le Droit, 25, Ottawa, November 9, 1985

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Joëlle Morosoli, née en 1951[1] à Strasbourg (France), est une artiste québécoise d'origine française et suisse. Son œuvre est constitué de sculptures sous forme d'installation ou intégrées à des édifices publics. La plupart de ses sculptures reposent sur une animation par le mouvement, grâce à des moyens mécaniques.



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