Olivier Girard
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Biography
Ink on Paper
30" x 40"
Olivier Girard is originally from Guadeloupe (a French Island in the Caribbean). He has lived and worked in Toronto for approximately ten years. He participated in over 12 solo and group exhibitions. Olivier received a Very Honourable Mention in Drawing at the 2003 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. His works was exhibited at the International Biennial of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Fine Arts of Taiwan in Taipei. He was selected among a large panel of recognized artists for residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Olivier was trained under renowned artist Gilles Meuvelle in Guadeloupe and studied Art at the Simpson Art Institute of Trinidad and Tobago.
Artist's Statement
My work is based on Topism Theory, a micro-linear technique. The term Topism comes from the Greek word topos, which means "place" or "map". Topism is in fact a map of the invisible world that surrounds us. It is a map of a vast and complex universe, born of the mind of the Supreme Creator who conceived it and over which he maintains spiritual mastery. This universe becomes perceptible and can be made rational through revelation, intuition or an artistic understanding inspired by the underlying concepts that form the basis of all matter.
Topism Theory sketches the spatial location of billions of micro-linear elements that surround us, invisible to the naked eye, that are interconnected to the tangible world we know. The initial reaction one should have from viewing my art is the impression that he or she is looking at a map. Topism can be understood as a representation of a world beyond our senses, whose interpretation is aesthetically rendered by the hand of the artist.
My art thus serves as a window to an infinitesimally universe that is progressively made visible to the naked eye. This creative work must convey to the viewer the impression that life is truly effervescent in these spheres of matter - matter which our senses cannot perceive.