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Doucet Saito

Mouvements et thèmes
Thèmes picturaux
  • Objets utilitaires
Techniques
  • Poterie, céramique
  • Sculpture
Biographie et démarche

Marié depuis 1965 le couple Doucet Saito a été actif sur la scène internationale depuis leur mariage.

Ils ont créé plusieurs murales et sculptures monumentales dont:

  • 1979 - Murale Quatre saisons dans l’Estrie for the Quebec Provincial Police building, Sherbrooke, Quebec.
  • 1985 - Murale extérieure École St-Jean-Baptiste, Roxton Falls, Quebec.
  • 1986 - Sculpture Impression (brass) for Foyer du Sacré-Cœur, Magog, Quebec
  • 1989 - Granite sculpture Énergie for Hydro-Québec,Sherbrooke, Quebec.
  • 1990 - Granite sculpture Dyad for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo.
  • 1990 - Granite sculpture Connivence for the Inglis Collection, Port Perry, Ontario
  • 1993 - Granite sculpture Stone Wind for Nisshin Oil Mills Ltd, Tokyo.
  • 1993 - Granite sculpture High and Low Rest Upon Each Other for Daitetsu Kogyo Co., Osaka.
  • 1993 - Granite sculpture Reflet de Lune for MacLaren Collection, Ogden, Quebec.
  • 1993 - Granite sculpture Time’s Gift for Mirai Hall, Gifu, Japan.
  • 1994 - Granite sculpture Arpeggio di Pietra for Sumitomo Rubber Industry Ltd. Kobe, Japan
  • 1995 - Granite sculpture Winter Lays the Egg of Spring for Yamae Hisano Echo Building, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • 1997 - Granite sculpture Alba, a commemorative sculpture for the XVIII Winter Olympic Games, Nagano, Japan.
  • 1997 - Granite Sculpture Key to the Sun for Mitsubishi Oil Co., Tokyo.
  • 1999 - Granite sculpture Allure for Nichimen Corporation, Osaka, Japan.
  • 1999 - Granite sculpture Rêverie for Institut de gériatrie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec.
  • 2001 - Granite sculpture Récolte, Pat and Norman Webster Collection, North Hatley, Quebec.
  • 2002 - Granite sculpture The Fisherman for private collection, Way’s Mills, Quebec.
  • 2002 - Granite sculpture Augering Time for Town of Ijima, Nagano, Japan.
  • 2003 - Granite sculpture Onde pour CLSC (local public medical clinic) in Valcourt, Quebec.
  • 2003 - Steel sculpture Bridge Ascending for Pat and Norman Webster Collection, North Hatley, Quebec.
  • 2005 - Granite sculpture Haru, Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Tokyo.
  • 2005 - Granite monument (grave marker), Eastern Townships, Quebec.
  • 2005 - Granite sculpture MAREBITO exhibited at New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. In 2009, the piece became part of a private collection in England.
Expositions
Groupe
  • 2005 - Terre et feu, la céramique d’art dans les Cantons-de-l’Est, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
  • 1965 - Duo, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1965 - Canadian Ceramics ’65, a national travelling exhibition under the auspices of The Canadian Guild of Potters, Toronto
  • 1967 - Canadian Pavillon, EXPO 67, Montreal
  • 1976 - Centre culturel canadien, Paris. Travelling exhibition: Bruxelles, Strasbourg and Luxembourg
  • 1976 - Faces of Canada, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1978 - Les Arts Visuel des Cantons de l’est, Centre culturel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • 1978 - ARTISAN’78 :The First Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Crafts. Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa
  • 1978 - Meitetsu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
  • 1979 - Shigaraki: Eight Hundred Years of Fire and Clay, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Isetan Museum, Tokyo
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  • 1982 - 40th CONCORSO  INTERNAZINALE  DELLA  CERAMICA  D’ARTE-FAENZA, Faenza, Italy
  • 1983 - Universiades ‘83, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 1984 - Works of Crafts from the Massey Foundation Collection, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa
  • 1987 - Restless Legacies: Contemporary Craft Practice in Canada, Art Festival of the XV Olympic Winter Games, Calgary, Alberta
  • 1988 - Restless Legacies: Contemporary Crafts Practice in Canada, the Olympic Art Festival,
  • 1988 - XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, Calgary, Alberta
  • 1989 - Masters of Crafts, inauguration of the Museum and Bronfman Award’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • 1996-1998 - TRANSFORMATION: Bronfman Award 1977-1996, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and American Craft Museum, New York
  • 1998 - Kaléidoscope, exhibition by Quebec members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Palais Montcalm, Québec City
  • 1999 - Trajectoires – la céramique au Québec des années 1930 à nos jours, Musée du Québec, Québec City
  • 2000 - ARTS 2000, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Stratford, Ontario
  • 2001 - Artista : Salon du printemps des artistes des Cantons de l’Est, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke,Quebec
  • 2005 - New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Rochcourt, Salisbury, UK
  • 2010 - Kaorugaoka art exhibition, Ina Cultural Centre, Ina, Nagano, Japan

Symposium

  • 1975 - The Fourth International Ceramics Symposium, Toronto
Solo
  • 1966 - Tochigi Prefecture Cultural Center, Utsunomiya, Japan
  • 1967 - Matsuya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 1972 - Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1975 - Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1976 - Matsuya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 1980 - Musée Beaulne, QC
  • 1980 - Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1982 - Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, ON
  • 1982 - FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
  • 1983 - Musée du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi, QC
  • 1985 - Concept in Clay Exhibition, Koffler Galley, Toronto, Ontario
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  • 1987 - Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa
  • 1988 - Agalmata, Contemporary Sculpture Center Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1990 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
  • 1990 - Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, Quebec
  • 1992 - Contemporary Sculpture Center Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1998 - Solo exhibition AGALMATA, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo.
  • 2006 - Doucet Saito Sculpture 1989-2006, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London
Musées et collections
  • Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario
  • Chitose Group, Yamagata, Japan
  • City of Nagano, commemorative sculpture for the 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games, Nagano, Japan
  • Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
  • Group Coopers & Lybrand, Montreal
  • Groupe La Laurentienne, Montreal
  • Imperial Life Assurance Company Of Canada, Toronto
  • Indusmin Collection, Toronto
  • Jean A. Chalmers National Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • Kitz Corporation, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan
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  • Ministry of External Affairs, Ottawa
  • Montreal Museum Fine Arts, Montreal
  • Musée Beaulne, Coaticook, Quebec
  • Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Lavalin Collection, Montreal
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City
  • Nisshin Oil Mills Co. Ltd., Tokyo
  • The Bronfman Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • The Massey Foundation Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • The Official Residence of the Governor General, La Citadelle, Québec City
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo
  • Town of Iijima, Iijima, Nagano, Japan
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Distinctions et prix
  • 1983 - Bourse du Québec for senior artists
  • 2001 - Prix d.excellence de la ville d'Osaka
  • 1973 - Marjorie Dunford Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1975 - Royal Trust Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1976 - Donald Dow Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1980 - Prix Saidye Bronfman (maintenant nommé "Prix du Gouerneur général")
  • 1982 - Bourse du Québec, Ministry of culture, Quebec
  • 1983 - Bourse du Québec, Ministry of culture, Quebec
  • 1997 - Nagano Open-air Sculpture Award for stone sculpture for Alba, Nagano Winter Olympics commemorative special installation, Nagano, Japan (Satoshi Saito)
  • 2001 - The City of Osaka Award for the Best Urban Environmental Amenity for Allure, Osaka (Satoshi Saito)
Bibliographie
Catalogues
  • 1963 - Canadian Ceramics’63, Canadian Guild of Potters, Toronto
  • 1965 - Canadian Ceramics 65, Canadian Guild  of Potters, Toronto
  • 1976 - National Ceramics Exhibition Calgary, Alberta Potters Association and Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta
  • 1976 - MÉTIERS D’ARTS/2, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
  • 1976 - FACES OF CANADA, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal
  • 1978 - LES ARTS VISUELS DES CANTONS DE L’EST, Centre culturel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • 1979 - SHIGSRAKI-TEN, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo
  • 1975 - ARTISAN’78: The First National Travelling  Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Crafts, Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa
  • 1980 - DOUCET-SAITO, Musée Beaulne, Coaticook, Quebec
  • 1982 - 40 CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DELLA CERANICA D’ARTE-FAENZA, Comune di Faenza, Italy
  • 1984 - Objets d’arts: oeuvres d’art de la Fondation Massey, National Art Gallery, Ottawa
  • 1985 - DOUCET-SAITO: Concepts in Clay, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
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  • 1988 - Restless Legacies: Contemporary Craft Practice in Canada, Olympic Arts Festival, Calgary, Alberta
  • 1990 - DOUCET-SAITO : Rétrospective de 1963 à 1990, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • 1992 - SATOSHI SAITO SCULPTURE, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo
  • 1998 - SATOSHI SAITO-AGALMATA, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo
  • 1998 - TRANSFORMATION: Prix Saidye Bronfman Award 1977-1996, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • 1998 - KALÉIDOSCOPE (an Exhibition by Quebec members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Toronto
  • 1999 - Trajectoires : la céramique au Québec des années 1930 à nos jours, Musée du Québec, Québec City
  • 2000 - Arts 2000, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Toronto
Monographies
Autre(s) livre(s)
Revues et articles de journaux
  • 2005 - Terre et feu, la céramique d’art dans les Cantons-de-l’Est, D.L. Le Devoir, 28 mai 2005 (BANQ, consultée le 9 novembre 2023)
  • Céramistes des Cantons-de-l’Est : Craquant!, Élise Giguère, Voir, 26 mai 2005 (consulté le 10 octobre 2023)