Annouchka Gravel Galouchko
Annouchka Gravel Galouchko is a multidisciplinary artist born in Montreal to a French father (of Ukrainian and Russian parents) and a Quebecois mother born in Saskatchewan. The artist spent her youth in many countries, including Egypt and Iran, which had a profound impact on her. She has won several national and international awards for her children's books. A monograph presenting the artist's visual works was published in 1998 by Les 400 coups.
Her multifaceted art questions our relationship with our origins while creating a captivating and colorful universe. Annouchka Gravel Galouchko's works have been exhibited here and abroad for many years.
Today, she devotes herself mainly to writing poetic texts which she sometimes puts into songs and to creating paintings.
Art nourishes the heart. It is an extremely powerful means of understanding our sometimes painful journey. Faced with the immensity of our ignorance, the mirror of creation can guide us on this sometimes difficult journey into the unknown. In my eyes, the main quality of a work is not that it is narrative, representational, abstract, or otherwise; but that it bears witness to a vital presence-reality that is conceptually elusive, what the Japanese call yugen. For me, this is how the work becomes universal, transcending time and fashion.
The march to love, the arterial man of your jigs, 1991
Acrylic and mixed media on wood, 218 cm X 76 cm
The poet Gaston Miron titled this work, borrowing a line from "Compagnon des Amériques," a poem in his collection. In 1991 and 1992, "L'homme artériel de tes gigues" was the poet's mascot for his shows "La Marche à l'amour."
