Art Center - Vitalité Frelighsburg

Its mission is to promote local artists, from the Brome-Missisquoi region, but also from other regions as well.

Present works of visual art: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, or other medium and certain artistic events.
To be an important venue for artists from the region by also welcoming artists from elsewhere, thus allowing local residents and tourists to get a taste of cultural creativity and the work of artists from several fields.
Contribute to the revitalization of the artistic scene of the town and the region.

management

Francine Couture, Jacques Lajeunesse, Marie Lavergne, Johanne Ratté, France Breton, Monique DUpras and MArion Turmine

Exhibitions : Season 2023

The Center will be open on May 6, 7 and 8; then, from Thursday to Monday until mid-June. From mid-June to Labor Day, the Center will be open seven days a week.

Entrelacs 3, 2023. Inkjet print on Japanese paper, 213 cm x 112 cm.

May 6th to june 4th

Opening ceremony, Saturday May 6th, 14 h to 16 h

Guylaine Chevarie-Lessard et Pierre Villeneuve

Entrelacs

Guylaine Chevarie-Lessard has painted on translucent fabric, she has
installed on the banks of the Rivière-aux-Brochets. Her photographs and those of Pierre Villeneuve captured the variations of light and texture. The combination of these photos and these paintings accompanied by a video produces an aesthetic effect immersive nature that visitors will be able to experience.

Carnaval (fragment), 2022. Oil and tempera, 2,03 m x 91,5 cm.

June 8th to july 9th

Opening ceremony, Sunday June 11th, 14 h to 16 h

Marie- Hélène Sirois

Carnaval

Marie-Hélène Sirois designed paintings like fragments of a theater set
evoking a masquerade ball described in a 19th century novel based on a play
music by Schumann. The artist staged nine characters who could have been
actors of this ball. Was life just one long masked ball? Who am I ? Here are the
questions posed to viewers by these works.

Sans titre, 2021. Platinum and palladium print, 29 x 29 cm.

july 13th to august 13th

Opening ceremony, Sunday July 16th, 14 h to 16 h

Guy Tremblay

À la vitesse que poussent les arbres

Guy Tremblay’s photographs represent trees as witnesses to a nature which appears intact to us. A poetic effect emanates from them due to the subtlety of their tone declining a range of gray, black and white which gives the impression that these images are timeless.

Absence, 2022. Oil and charcoal, 30 cm x 23 cm.

august 17th to september 17th

Opening ceremony, Sunday August 20th, 14 h to 16 h

Sanders Pinault

À nu

Sanders Pinault’s charcoal and oil paintings show figures human beings expressing vulnerability. The artist interprets this experience as an attitude of abandonment and openness to others without dissimulation. It is through the gesture of their bodies that these figures reveal this state of presence to the world.

Photograph and stitched naturalized flowers: Tiger lily, cosmos, yarrow, sedum
Inkjet printing on Moab Entrada Tag Natural 300 paper
Dimensions 23 1/2 x 33 3/4 pc

september 21st to october 29th

Opening ceremony, Saturday September 23rd, 14 h to 16 h

Catherine Arsenault

Reminisci ou la mémoire volontaire

The works in this exhibition evoke the Polytechnique event on December 6
1989. They transform the exhibition hall into a place of memory on the violence done to these women. This memory is transmitted by the photographs of bouquets on which Catherine Arsenault sewed flowers picked from her garden, as well as a facility. The presentation of a video in which the artist recounts the stages of her creative project testifies to his intimate and historical reading of the event.