Carole Pilon's artistic style can be described as a synthesis of multiple media to which glass is added, always with finesse. Her work evokes the cyclic metamorphosis of nature, its vitality and its infinite power of adaptation.
A University of Concordia (Montreal) graduate in Visual Arts (1982), Carole Pilon's first interest was in painting and encaustic. However by 1990 her remarkable creativity lead her to explore glass which she finds the ideal media able to express the concept of mobility that will henceforth influence her work.
Pilon's sculptures display her passion for the symbiosis of multiple media. Nevertheless, glass, for its own particular dynamics and its luminous character, remains her favourite medium and she explores all the relevant techniques.
Carole Pilon finds inspiration in the microscopic details of many organic shapes, thus inviting us to rediscover the beauty that escapes the urban jaded eye.
"Each life form, albeit mineral, animal or plant, inevitably transforms itself when touched by the outside world. Each event leaves its footstep and touches our body and mind." Pilon reinvents those hybrid shapes and textures until the movement is born from within and the metaphor of our own human mutations is superimposed. The work then becomes an odyssey where the morphological transformation reflects the passage of time and reveals its story.
On several occasions, Carole Pilon has received grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec and the Canadian Arts Council. In 2000, her work was rewarded as she received the Vetro Award. Many of her sculptures can be seen among several public and private collections in Canada, in the United States and in Europe.
Prélude et incantationGlass, paper pulp, pigments - H 110cm, L 18cm, W 21cm . 2001.
Berceau des traverséesPate de verre, paper pulp, pigments - H 175cm, L 49cm, W 24cm . 1999.
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