Figurative Paintings • 2000-2001

The symbolism of Mario Cardin is easy to understand. The artist includes a legend of clip-art silhouettes with his paintings, constructed from a playful mix-and-match system of graphic forms, making it easier for us to decipher their meaning.

Mario Cardin's coded visual language helps the viewer to "get the message". He express his concerns about life, moral, values, spirituality and politics. The theme of the exhibit is thought-provoking but vivre.

Several of the artist's dynamic figurative paintings recall the surrealism of Alfred Pellan or folk-art design. A series of small canvasses with such divergent titles as "La Foi" and "Jazz dans la Nuit" uses the shape of the human head as a design element, inviting us to enter into the head/world of Cardin's imagination.

April 2001 : Irmela Dmytruk "Le TOUR"
Sutton, Dunham, Frelighsburg.