Jacques Baril
“I am the hunter becoming a light breeze lifting each leaf. I am the hunted in brown and green earth, swallowing the hunter's footsteps. In this warlike paradox, history only exists through the symbiosis of the protagonists. Each of the hunts changes my story, recognizing it and naming it, it's my work as an artist. It is therefore the story of the paradoxes that punctuate my life that my works tell. Thus, becoming a predator of my work, I consume its essence to acquire the virtues of what I have not controlled.”
Jacques has been pursuing an artistic career for more than twenty-seven years that has taken him all over the world. A self-taught sculptor, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and symposia, both in Canada and abroad (Japan, Switzerland, Italy). He has won a large number of scholarships and awards for his work, including more than thirty snow sculpture prizes, five Prima Hydro-Québec prizes, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec prize in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. He has been a member of several juries regionally, nationally and internationally, in addition to having carried out several projects integrating the arts into architecture. For the past ten years, Jacques has been offering snow sculpture workshops that have been very successful in schools, as well as at various winter celebrations with the general public.
