Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
Carved out of whale bone, the works of Manasie Akpaliapik use the organic forms of the material to reveal complex representations of the interrelations of the living.
Manasie Akpaliapik, L’Homme et le hibou, vers 2000
Manasie Akpaliapik
(Arctic Bay, Nunavut)
Born in 1955 in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, Manasie Akpaliapik moved to Arctic Bay in 1967. He learned to sculpt at the age of 10. Since then, his work has been collected by the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Winnipeg), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canadian History Museum (Gatineau), and the Musée des confluences (Lyon). In 1980, he moved to Montreal, where he lived for several years. He now lives and works in Toronto.
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
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