Solo Exhibition at CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011
The exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of painted images that investigate relationships between signs of abstraction and figuration and how we derive meaning by simple juxtaposition of these signs. Beaucage invents characters and places them side by side with an abstracted form into a scenario that mimics what happens in a social space. The emotional thread woven into the paintings, the social spaces, is meant to stimulate discourse with the audience.
In the artist’s native Quebec, a “hurluberlu” is one who is a little crazy, sweet and original in his way of thinking, how he dresses and behaves. Physical applications of volatile multicolor brush strokes to the canvas, are the basis for the hurlubelu–like characters, while the abstractions are an investigation of improvised construction based on the shape of a lozenge (diamond shape) and Catalan solids (geometric). Relationships between the figures and the abstractions are associated by modal logic theorems in witch a lozenge represents a possibility and the figure is an agent (player). We are therefore in the domain of dot.hurluberlu.
Quixotic.cub.octahedron.hur, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 46 Inches, 2011 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Hurluberlu.cubic.hur, Oil on Canvas,60 x 46 inches, 2011
Postdramaticmode/brechtianmood.hur, Oil on Canvas, 81 x 60 inches,2011
Triakis.tetrahedron.hur, Oil and Wax on Panel, 53 x 36 inches, 2011
Palsy.Walsy.hur, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 78 x 58 inches, 2011
Petrochemical Paraprosdokian, Oil on Canvas, 49 x 36 inches, 2011
Pomo, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Double Up, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011
L'homme Au Diamant, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011
Triplets, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011
Inamorata, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011
With It, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011
Modal Operator, Acrylic on Paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2011 (Private Collection Los Angeles)