Rose-Aimée Bélanger
BRONZE WORKS | ŒUVRES EN BRONZE
digitized
numérisés
JUNE 4 - JULY 21, 2023 | 4 JUIN - 21 JUILLET, 2023
The Temiskaming Art Gallery is proud to present Rose-Aimée Bélanger, Bronze works: Digitized | Œuvers en bronze: numérisées, generously funded by the Government of Canada and le Centre culturel ARTEM.
Rose-Aimée Bélanger’s sculptures explore the human condition. Through her work she transmits the extraordinary pleasures found in the ordinary, and, 100 years old on July 4, 2023, she wisely invites us to savour them.
Featured in the exhibition is an exploration of the progression of creation of her sculptures: from clay to bronze. Further, small scale reproductions are fabricated using 3D printing technology, available for viewing over the course of the exhibition. This innovative extension to the evolution of sculpture enables a deeper understanding of process and form, and a reflection upon the place of technology in the art world.
Virtual Gallery Tour
You can read the exhibition brochure here through HeyZine, or download the exhibition brochure PDF.
Educational Resources
This selection of videos in French and English outline who Rose-Aimée Bélanger is and her history of sculpture making. It includes interviews with her and other artists from the area, as well as a video explaining the process of casting bronze sculptures. We hope you enjoy them and find them as informative as we do.
There are three activities offered to engage participants with the works of Rose-Aimée Bélanger. Each activity aims to deepen the participants’ understanding and appreciation of the artwork, while developing their creativity as well as visual and cultural literacy. Activities can be readily adapted to accommodate different abilities and levels of learning.
Activity 1: Make Your Own 3D Printed Model
Explore how 3D printing works by creating a 3D model of a Rose-Aimée Bélanger sculpture.
Activity 2: Paint Your Own 3D-Printed Model
Consider colour associations and how Rose-Aiméee utilizes colour in her sculptures.
Activity 3: Make Your Own Sculpture
Follow Rose-Aimée's first step in creating sculptures using the "pinch pot" method.
PDF about Rose-Aimée Bélanger
You can download a PDF with information about Rose-Aimée Bélanger and her sculptural techniques
For Best Print Results
If you're new to 3D printing we've created a document that will help you get the best print results. Because there are so many different types of 3D printers and software programs available we have written this guide specifically for the software UltiMaker Cura. You may need to look up the make and model of your printer to find it's ideal settings when tweaking the sculpture to print. This PDF will walk you through opening an STL file in the Ultimaker Cura software, adjusting the most relevant settings and creating supports for the sulpture, and exporting the finished file to 3D print.
How to 3D print an STL file
View the 3D Scans
If you click on the photo of each sculpture it will open a new browser window where you can rotate them in real-time.
#1 Woman with Flower on Hat
#2 Clay Girl Sitting
#3 Mother and Child
#4 Horse and Boy
#5 Woman sitting in Flowers, No Hat
#6 Woman Sitting in Flowers, Hat
#7 Blueberry Picker
#8 Blue Mushroom Picker
#9 Grey Mushroom Picker
#10 Clay Mermaid
#11 Bronze Mermaid
#12 Girl and Cow
#13 Jeannine
#14 Red Wax Couple
#15 Water Basin Woman
#16 Woman Sitting With Book
#17 3 Fauns
#18 Clay Girl Kneeling