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Biography
Born in Montreal, he has always drawn. On the walls of his room, in the basement, on the floors, he painted characters, landscapes and abstractions. He found no better way to give sense to the universe.
Later, he will take Visual Art studies and lithography under the direction of Nicole Malenfant at Laval University in Canada.
He was actively involved in the management and presentation of workshop models and live painting in Quebec by creating a collective of artists which approach was to create works live in public or private places, followed by an auction.
He participated in many symposiums and live painting in Quebec between 1985 and 2010. In 2012, it was love at first sight for mosaic that he studied under the direction of Suzanne Spahi, Mosaiquist and owner of Mosaikashop in Montreal. In the summer of 2012, he participated in an intensive session of ancient mosaic under the supervision of Luciana Notturni, head of the well renowned Mosaic Art School of Ravenna, Italy. Versatile artist, Daniel Tardif alternates from drawing and painting to mosaic by handling all subjects: from representation to abstraction.
Artist Statement
"PAINTING My recent works show energetic compositions browsed by lively and contrasted colors. To begin, I pour a pale or dark thorough color on the canvas displayed over the ground. Then I dip my fingers and shake them in circular movements. Once the dried painting, I spot grooves sketch as a curb and determine those whom I paint by means of complementary colors. I work more the shape than the colors. In the end, I can't say if it is beautiful: What I search it is the balance of warm and contrasted colors on a bottom of energy vibrations. It is at first a visual experience...
MOSAIC The mosaic is a former art which goes back to thousands of years. His basic materials and techniques never really changed. Nevertheless, mosaic rest in 2016 one of the most striking visual experiences. My mosaics appear such the heiresses of the Roman emblamata and the icons Byzantine, works of small dimensions and transportable. When I paint forms and apply colors according to a more or less precise purpose, Inhabited of a pack of feeling, I visit memory, I reproduce a beautiful vision, a layout of the world. I interpret a blow of pleasant eye, a body, a curve, a glance, a landscape, an abstraction. My eyes are refillables."
Daniel Tardif
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