Dominic Besner Canadian, b. 1965
Works
- Les Lady à Bulles, 2025
- Le Chevauché Auréolé, 2025
- Le Sillage des Muses, 2025
- La Spiro-Fol d'Or, 2025
- Le Règne Porteur, 2025
- Les Roses Bottes, 2025Reserved
- L'Étoilé Urbain, 2025
- Sous le Proscrit, je suis Élixir, 2025
- Une Mirabelle en Bleu Poème, 2025
- La Dame-Roi de Cœur, 2024
- Les grands meuniers d'or, 2024
- Cabinet des jouets, 2024
- The Golden Girls, 2024
- Le Galop Rouge, 2024
- Les écrans plats-scène I et II, 2024
- Saphira D'or, 2024
- Rave des dragons-mouches, 2024
- Les Octaves (I et II), 2024
- Le bang des mondes, 2024
- The Poppy Blooming, 2024
- Nuit Sans Lune au Veilleur d'Astres, 2024Reserved
- Valley of Grace Lines, 2024
- Whispers of Ivory, 2024Sold
- Le Grand Sceau d'Or I, 2024
- Royal Stripe, 2022
- Les Zoopsies d'Ombres, 2022
- Golden Candles, 2022
- Les Grands Deus, 2020
- Le buste de féria, 2020
- La Garde des Victors, 2018
- The Game of Throne, 2023
- Hublot au garou du loups, 2023
- Grandes Dames Forgées, 2022
- La chaire-levis, 2023
- Le dog angel, 2023
- Les ailes de verre, 2021
- Les ailes du ponant, 2023
- Nuit de Soie des Kimonos Sauvage, 2023
- The Rainbow Club, 2023
- Le lingot d'or, 2024
- Le Miroir du Siam, 2018
- Les puces d'étoiles, 2023Sold
- Les cornes de vermeil, 2023Sold
- Kim à mono, 2023Sold
- L'Astre Sauvage , 2017Sold
- Target Market Bull, 2023Sold
- Le stand d'Akoya, 2024Sold
- Le grain d'or céleste, 2024Sold
- Le bull d'or, 2024Sold
- La nue de Nitouche, 2024Sold
- La dame de Cyr, 2024Sold
- La brindille d'or, 2024Sold
- Hublot-Polaroïd, 2024Sold
- Altar of the Great Truce of the Masters, 2022Sold
- The Poodle's Nest, 2024Sold
- Le Grand Galop Descar, 2024Sold
- The Midnight Ladies Lounge, 2023Sold
Series
Biography
Besner's creative work is created by using a mixed technique on canvas. He has a preference for oil sticks and their rich palette of colours as well as acrylic paint, structural mortar, china marker and aerosol paint. In addition to these materials, he uses his fingers to manipulate and scrape the canvas.
Besner was born in 1965 in North Lancaster, Ontario. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Montreal in 1992. This early education allowed him to focus his thoughts regarding the nature of the city and its components.
The artist is entirely open to the vibrations of contemporary society which he seeks to remodel in new forms of plasticity, hovering somewhere between the figurative and the abstract. His aim is not to create an ideal or to reproduce nature, but rather to give form to the energy emanating from the metaphysics of human activity.
The fantastic creations to which he gives birth on the canvas are synonymous with human fragility and of the brevity of life, by which he is both awed and troubled. Besner draws from the energy of the heart of the city, with its noise and fast-paced activity, which he then modulates in his painting. The characters depicted are imbued with the same sense of dizzying movement associated with urban press. They live in the echoes and the ambience of the city, which the artist depicts using colours, lines, and motifs.
Whether his subject is human, animal, or architectural, the resulting depiction is always with the effect of a plasticity that emerges from the dynamic relation between the figure and space. When the subject is a person, everything is in their gaze, mouth, high cheekbones, broad forehead and sometimes merely in the slight angle at which the head is held. The overall facial expression is more than just a reflection of personality; it is a reflection of our contemporary world, which belongs to all of us. Postures, hairstyles, body language ― all mirror the movement initiated by the face and express the full eloquence of the work.
The emotional structure of Besner's work expresses a renewed, richer and deeper view of life, based on line and color. The resulting depiction is the image of a world in itself, which largely transcends the two-dimensional limits of the canvas.
Exhibitions
Dominic Besner
FOCUS | GLR6012 Jul - 10 Aug 2025Read moreGroup Exhibition | Toronto
1 - 24 Mar 2025Read moreArt Miami | Booth #AM407
Art Fair3 - 8 Dec 2024Read moreDominic Besner | Or Standard
Solo Exhibition | Montréal26 Sep - 16 Oct 2024' The ORSTANDARD series is an ode to the eclipse I witnessed, the Clash of Worlds . It was the image of an intimate dance, a silent spectacle, a shimmering...Read moreDominic Besner | "The Rainbow Club"
EXHIBITION | GLRTO2 - 30 Nov 2023Read moreDominic Besner
FOCUS | GLR601 - 30 Jun 2023Read moreArt Miami | BOOTH AM510
ART FAIR29 Nov - 4 Dec 2022Read moreGROUP EXHIBITION "ART QC"
FOCUS | GLR451 - 31 Oct 2022Read moreGROUP EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION | GLRTO1 - 30 Sep 2022Read moreArt Miami
Miami | Art fair30 Nov - 5 Dec 2021Read moreDominic Besner | "Les Insilences"
Exhibition | GLR411 - 31 Oct 2021Read moreDominic Besner
FOCUS XL | GLR601 - 31 Jan 2021Read more
News
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Dominic Besner November 2, 2024ÉTAT DE SIÈGE réunit deux immenses talents et propose un contenu original, grandement musical que même les deux artistes ne souhaitent pas définir ou qualifier...Read moreVers des Mondes | Centre d’art Diane-Dufresne
Dominic Besner October 22, 2024L’exposition favorise l’immersion dans le monde mystérieux, parfois inquiétant, de Besner. Aux côtés des toiles de grands formats qui caractérisent sa production artistique, une série...Read moreArt Cars Project | Musee National des Beaux-Arts
Dominic Besner October 4, 2021Designed by artist Dominic Besner and collaborator Yves Thibeault, the colorful Porsche 911 was created as part of the Art Cars Project for the Musée...Read moreLes Luniphantesques
Dominic Besner July 1, 2021Outdoor exhibition at Morgan Park, Montreal. Les Luniphantesques is a site-specific work by artist Dominic Besner, whose playful composition will appeal to young and old...Read more
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