Roadburn Festival will exhibit 'Worlds Away - The Art of Michel Langevin' as part of the event's 2012 edition. The exhibition will feature work by Voivod drummer and artist Michel "Away" Langevin, who together with his fellow bandmates is curating the special Au-delà du Réel event this year.
Gust van Dijk, Home to Contemporary Art, will host the exhibition. The gallery is located just around the corner and up the street from the 013 and Patronaat venues.
Michel "Away" Langevin, now 48, is drummer and founding member of Voivod. He began touring the globe in the mid-eighties and hasn't stopped yet. As an artist, he likes nothing more than to retire to his studio in splendid isolation to create with his pencils, inks and computer. These contradictions are alive and well in his art, where ancient history collides with the future, aliens meet archetypes, and insects share a tender embrace against a backdrop of warheads.
Growing up in Kenogami, a small town north of Montreal, the din of nearby factories and news reports of nuclear proliferation fed Michel's anxiety and dystopian visions. Initially, music and art offered an escape; later, they became an outlet. Michel credits myriad publications, films and music with influencing his art and providing inspiration, such as Philippe Druillet (Metal Hurlant), whose mutant warriors in Urm le Fou sowed the seeds of imagination for the Voivod character.
Scenes from films that impressed him at a young age would weave their way into his artwork: once the stuff of nightmares, he enlisted the giant arachnid from The Incredible Shrinking Man to tow a carnival trailer on 'Angel Rat', Voivod's 1991 album.
What, where, when Worlds Away - The Art of Michel Langevin
April 12 - May 6
Gust van Dijk, Home to Contemporary Art
Tivolistraat 22, 5017 HP Tilburg
Open 3pm - 9pm during Roadburn (April 12 - 15) and otherwise by appointment.
