Artist of the day, December 20: Claude Millette, a Québec sculptor (#869)

Claude Millette, (1957) born in Saint-Hyacinthe, received his education at the École de sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, complemented by apprenticing internships with Robert Poulin and Jordi Bonet. His works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are in the collections of, among others, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’Art de Joliette, and the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent. Among the 20 works of public art that he has produced is L’amphore cryogénique, created for a commission by the Ville de Pointe-Claire to mark the new millennium. The artwork includes a time capsule.

Claude Millette is, before anything else, a sculpture interested in steel and its variations: painted, stainless, corten… Well-known for his public artwork, he also realized small formats, always non-figurative. Recently, these have taken a playful look. We can associate them to the vegetal or animal world, or to the machinic universe, but they are, before anything else, a reflection on the empty and full, balance and imbalance, movement and static. As a true manipulator of the material, Claude Millette, welds, cuts, bolts, assemble and this very physical work on the metal is intimately linked to his gait.

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Mr. Claude Millette

1980, Trajectoire no 7

1981, Sans titre

1983, Emprise structure no 11

1986, Féminin pluriel

1986, Solution

1999, Fébrilité

2000, L’envoilure d’Éole

2002, Le foisonnement 

2007, Le chiasma

2007, Passage lunaire

2008, Au fil du temps

2008, Constellation

2008-16, Corphéum XV

2009, Constellation VI

2009, La structure du vent

2009, Le coup de départ

2010, Constellation 

2010, Constellation  I

2011, Archivolte

2011, Crescendo II

2012, Au gré des vagues

2011, Tandem

2013, Perséides

2014, Arabesque

2014, Corphéum II

2014, Corphéum VI

2015, Corphéum VII

2015, Corphéum VIII

2015, Corphéum X

2015, Exclusa Libellus

2015, Kata et Voltige

2015, Statera

2016, Aequilibirum IV

2016, Corphée

2016, Corpheum XIV

2016, Momentum III

2016, Æquilibrium III

2017, Effervescence

2017, Le geai bleu

2017, Parcours oblique

2017, Synergie