Taking art for a ride: propulsion and entropy in the work of Michel de Broin.(Shared Propulsion Car, Keep on Smoking )(Critical essay) From: C: International Contemporary Art | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Schutze, Bernard | COPYRIGHT 2006 C The Visual Arts Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

RESISTANCE has been the driving metaphor and conceptual core of Michel de Broin's artistic work since the mid-90s. A singular feature of the Quebecois artist's approach to this is the creation of physical systems that simultaneously generate a force and thwart it. As Bernard Lamarche has cogently demonstrated, de Broin does not work resistance as "an against" but as something that works "with" materials to uncover tensions and contradictions that would otherwise go unnoticed. (1) T...