Rusdi Genest (born 1939 in
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...
, Quebec) is a Quebec sculptor known for his symbolic surrealistic art bronzes by the
lost-wax casting
Lost-wax casting (also called "investment casting", "precision casting", or ''cire perdue'' which has been adopted into English from the French, ) is the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is ...
process and his hand-pressed mural reliefs in fine art
papermaking
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. He was inducted into the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880.
History 1880 to 1890
The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The Governor General ...
(RCA) in 2013.
Education and teaching
Genest earned an MFA from the
Université du Québec à Montréal
The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ...
. He studied art at the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
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(ENSBA), the
(ENSAAMA) in Paris, and the
California State University, Long Beach
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. He was a professor at the
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
The Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) is a branch of the Université du Québec network founded in 1969 and based in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. UQAC has secondary study centres in La Malbaie, Saint-Félicien ...
(UQAC), Saguenay and at the Sadie Bronfman School of fine arts in Montréal. He has taught courses at the California State College, Sonoma, the Boston and the Cambridge Centers for Adult Education.
Genest has been awarded subsidies and research grants by the
Quebec
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Ministry of Culture and Communications.
Honors and awards
In June 2013, Genest was inducted into the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880.
History 1880 to 1890
The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The Governor General ...
. He has received awards from the Minister of Interior of the Republic of
Italy
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, Art Credo,Toronto, Canada, the Governor of the Province of Ravenna, Italy. He earned a Medal from the Salon des Arts et des Lettres de Paris Sud, France, the Monterey and the Mill Valley Festivals of the Arts, Ca., USA.
Art integration to architecture
*Centre d'accueil Mgr Victor Tremblay (Details), Chicoutimi, Qc
*Centre d'accueil Beaumanoir (Second art), Saguenay, Qc
*Centre d'accueil Cité des Prairies, Montréal, Qc.
Works in public collections
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Museo Dantesco of Ravenna in Italy, State Museum of Berlin, the
British Museum
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of London (Medals), Museum of Wroclaw in Poland, Residence of the " Délégué Général du Québec " in Paris, the Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, and AMSA in New York.
Artworks
Genest 's works have been exhibited in Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, United States, Sweden and Switzerland.
He designed a medallion for the American Medallic Sculptural Association.
Summary of solo exhibitions
*Montréal, Qc, Can Gallery, Bernard, " So goeth the Cosmos " 2010
*Québec, Qc, Canada, Linda Verge Gallery, " Fugues in folly " 2007
*Montréal, Qc, Galerie Bernard, " Fugues en folie " 2006
*Montréal, Qc, Georges Laoun Gallery at the Museum, " Explosivities & Time stasis " 2002
*Montréal, Qc, Galerie Bernard, " Explosivitées et Temps d'arrêts " 2001
*Québec, Qc, Galerie Linda Verge, " Tissus Civilisations, Textures d'Humanités " 1999
*Spokane, WA, US, Lorrinda Knight Gallery, " Bronze sketches & Paper manuscripts " 1995
*Toronto, Canadian Exchange Tower, " Whimsical Serenades for Strewn Ceremonials " 1994
*Montréal, Can, John Abbott Gallery, " Rusdi Genest, Bronze, Stoneware & Paper art " 1992
*Chicoutimi, Qc, Art Society's Virtual Space, " Affichages Sculpturaux, Clameurs et Visions " 1982
*Montréal, Qc, University of Québec Gallery, " Affichages Sculpturaux, Clameurs et Visions " 1981
*Montréal, Qc, Galerie d'art Les deux B, " Proximiser un devenir par passages intensifs " 1979
*Montréal, Qc, Galerie Saint-Denis, " Mites et Mythes, bronzes cires perdues, dessins récents " 1978
*Montréal, Qc, Galerie Balcon des Images, " L'univers ésotérique féminin " 1977
*Paris, France, Canadian student residence, Cité universitaire, " Stylized feminin forms " 1972
*Monterey, California, USA, Matrix Gallery, " Magical sketches in bronze " 1970
*Carmel, California, USA, Tantamount Art Theatre, " Magical sketches in bronze " 1969
*Hollywood, Ca., USA, Pan American Cultural Society, " Opera del sculptor Genesto " 1967
*Beverly Hills, California, USA, Setay Gallery, " Lost wax cast bronze sculptures " 1966
Bibliography
*Bernard Michel, " Rusdi Genest: Calendrier de la vie artistique », () 2006
*
Andre Seleanu, " Rusdi Genest: Master of Narrative », The Medal # 42, Spring 2003, p. 32
*
Andre Seleanu, " Les engrenages allégoriques Rusdi Genest ", Vie des Arts, No. 183, été 01, p. 53
*
Andre Seleanu, " À faire, une œuvre de Rusdi Genest ", Espace Sculpture,
Vol.5, # 2, hiver 1989, p. 22
References
External links
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* A full page of English-French links abou
Rusdi Genest* Rusdi Genes
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1939 births
Living people
Artists from Quebec
Canadian sculptors
People from Sherbrooke
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts