Myriam Dion - Garden planimetry
Redefining the boundaries of wine and art.
The contemplation of symmetry
Renaissance Gardens questions our appetite for sound-bite news and sensational art by crafting thoughtful mosaics using a precise hand-cutting technique. Each garden encloses vintages behind its doors, embracing the tradition of the territory and symbolism of land.
Garden planimetry - variant 1
Garden planimetry - variant 2
The work I propose to arrange the bottles of wine is inspired by the concept of the garden and more particularly by the planimetry of Renaissance gardens. This period, characterized by an effervescence observed in many fields such as the arts, sciences, and literature is thus conducive to the formulation of the idea that a garden can be a work of art encompassing in a single place a considerable part of the knowledge and conceptions of that period. The development of gardens enjoyed a period of splendor during the Renaissance when some extremely rich and powerful individuals, among them popes and cardinals, idealized the garden as an effective means of self-representation. These sometimes impressive spaces for vacation, relaxation, and pleasure, where majestic feasts and banquets took place, had an important social dimension since they welcomed a large number of distinguished guests with whom the owner took advantage of the place to discuss, meditate, contemplate nature and exchange on the works that were displayed out there.
The garden also had an agricultural function, growing medicinal plants, vegetables, and fruits, including vines. When I think of the refinement, complexity, social dimension, but also the fullness found in the experience of the Renaissance garden, I easily associate it with the experience of wine tasting and the ideal state of mind or context in which I would like to share it. I would, therefore, like to draw inspiration from European garden floor plans to invent a series of gardens, by creating meticulous designs adorned with gold leaf and cut-outs that take up certain formal characteristics of the original plans (symmetry, geometry, paths, fountains, maze, etc.).
Each drawing will be unique and will have a square shape of 35 cm x 35 cm. Individually framed, the drawings will then be mounted on a system of wall drawers that will allow for the storage of wine bottles. The cellar will occupy a large wall space covered with a grid of works representing different garden beds, behind which the owner will be able to store and organize the vintages he/she collects.
By crafting thoughtful mosaics inspired by the world events with a very precise hand-cutting technique, Canadian artist Myriam Dion questions our appetite for sound-bite news and sensational art. She transforms newspapers, opening them up for re-interpretation and encourages people to think more deeply about the news that we consume too easily. Transparency and delicacy are the pillars of her practice. For CellArt, Myriam Dion is willing to push the scale of her work to present impressive paper-cut pieces stacked through plexiglass doors, allowing the light to go through the architecture of the cellar space.
"Jonathan and Thierry made an immediate impression on me as two passionate - and therefore exciting - people who easily made me want to collaborate. This ambitious project offers me various attractive avenues to develop my practice and I appreciate the attention to detail and quality inherent in CellArt's achievements: one only has to visit their production workshop to grasp the richness of their expertise and want to contribute to this remarkable alliance between art and wine".
Myriam Dion
