THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition presents a collection of fifty high-quality icons. These are works of art from a very ancient spiritual tradition of light and products of the earth. With its own techniques and iconographic canons, this tradition has been preserved for centuries in the East. These icons are displayed in several triptychs, presenting a variety of encounters between people, with God, with each other, with Life… The presence of eternity which comes to meet us. The scale of this exhibition is rare, if not unique. This collection of icons offers a spiritual, artistic, historical, heritage, biblical tour, thus proposing a pilgrimage for everyone.
THE ARTIST-ICONOGRAPHER
Iconographer Gilberte Massicotte-Éthier (GMÉ), devoted to raising her family of nine children in Quebec City’s Sillery neighbourhood, always had a passion for the arts, especially painting.
After studying visual arts at the Beaux-Arts de Québec, CEGEP and Université Laval, this multidisciplinary artist discovered icons in her sixties. She studied iconography in France and in New York, and then devoted herself exclusively to icons until she passed away in 2013, at the age of 93, having completed the masterpiece: “The Communion of Saints”. The notoriety of this Quebec artist is widespread beyond our borders.
