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Richard Montpetit was born in
Montpetit studies variations though the seasons, in both night and day, and captures the effect of different luminous sources like car lights, street lamps, shops windows and neon signs.All these notations bring the viewer to the precise mood of the moment and makes one feel present.His is a nostalgic wandering in the
« I am a traveller, no matter where I am, I look with a certain distance to see and feel.My gaze on the present moment is possessed of certain nostalgia, as if I were observing old photos.This is when everything becomes clear and I really see.Of course, I am painting the light, but studying the light is looking at time through days and nights, through seasons and years.So in a way my subject is time; time passing in our life, time that I would like to capture or at least remember when magic was present and express that I was there… I am there »
Since 1979 Richard Montpetit has exhibited in more then thirty (33) solo shows, one of which was a retrospective exhibition which lasted three months at the
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