The exhibition will open with a wine and cheese reception with the artist in attendance on Thursday, May 14, 6-8 p.m.

From May 14 to June 27, Le Centre culturel de Vancouver is pleased to present an exhibition of the work of Majie Lavergne, who has shown his work in France, the United States and Canada.

A Nanaimo resident, Majie Lavergne was born in France into a family that was immersed in artistic creation and aesthetic interests. His father was post-impressionist painter Robert Lavergne and his godfather was Louis Nallard, a pioneer of abstract lyrical art. Majie was drawn to New York to study film and he spent some fifteen years between New York and Los Angeles making documentaries before deciding to give expression to his talent as a painter and pursue the study of art therapy and transpersonal therapy.

Influenced by the work of Van Gogh and the German painter Gerhard Richter, Majie Lavergne defines his painting as “a dance, a continuous dialogue with colours, shapes and textures”. His creativity is often inspired by colours, dreams and mysterious energy. This leap into the unknown, the unexpected, this quest for light, is both an opening and a transcendence that gives rise to an image. As the American essayist and playwright Henry Miller said: “Painting is like falling in love again”.

http://majie.ca/