Born in Montreal in the middle of the fifties, Michel Boire never misses an opportunity to concretize the chalenges suggested by his imagination. As a young a child, he draws plans, builds miniatures and huts, refuges and forteresses on pieces of waste ground near his home. Artistic creation passion growing with as time was passing by, he studied arts and architecture while being involve into many projects allowing him to apply the learned theories. Michel Boire's versatility, interests and talents are surprising. From metallurgic teacher to cabinetwork, from potter to home improving, he touches to every medium and success to give free rein to his imagination.

This year, Michel Boire offers us a wooden sculptures collection that confirms Emile Zola's tought that a work of art is a piece of imagination seen trough a temperament. Indeed, everyone will recognize into Michel Boire's birds the look, the lines or the apperance of a neighbor, a cousin or a friend. Antropomorphic works, it is a relationship between Quebec society, within all its individual diversity, and nature, within all its purety, that the artist's sculptures offers us.