Jérôme Fortin, Écran no 12 (détail), 2006, Collage (affiches pour festival de films de court métrage), 304,8 x 548,6 cm, Collection de l’artiste, Avec l’aimable permission de Pierre-François, Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

MONTRÉAL, CANADA.- Slowing down the gaze seems to be a mantra for Jérôme Fortin, who makes generous use of both time and paper in creating his monumental wall pieces, consisting of countless rows of folded paper arranged in delicately cut screens. For the past decade or so, this Québec artist has produced remarkable assemblages out of everyday objects, from plastic bottles, employed in his Marines series, to paper recycled into the origami-like Solitudes. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Jérôme Fortin through April 22, 2007. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

Jérôme Fortin, Écran no 11 (détail), 2006, Collage (revues Artforum), 304,8 x 548,6 cm, Collection de l’artiste, Avec l’aimable permission de Pierre-François, Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay