Guy Laramée is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada, with over 30 years of career creating artworks in such numerous disciplines as theater writing and directing, contemporary music composition, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, literature, installation, painting and, finally, sculpture.
In his hands, old hard-bound dictionaries and encyclopedias turn into stunningly natural landscapes. Sculptures of mountain valleys, caverns, and uneven terrain carved and painted by hand. But many of them also have man-made constructions and human interventions, such as small temples carved into the rock, rustic houses, and roads.
The erosion of cultures – and of “culture” as a whole – is the theme that runs through the last 25 years of my artistic practice. Cultures emerge, become obsolete, and are replaced by new ones. With the vanishing of cultures, some people are displaced and destroyed. We are currently told that the paper book is bound to die. The library, as a place, is finished. One might ask so what? Do we really believe that “new technologies” will change anything concerning our existential dilemma, our human condition? And even if we could change the content of all the books on earth, would this change anything in relation to the domination of analytical knowledge over intuitive knowledge? What is it in ourselves that insists on grabbing, on casting the flow of experience into concepts?
Guy Laramée
More info: Website, Facebook, Instagram.
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 1](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-1.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 2](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-2.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 3](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-3.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 4](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-4.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 5](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-5.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 6](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-6.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 7](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-7.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 8](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-8.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 9](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-9.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 10](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-10.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 11](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-11.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 12](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-12.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 13](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-13.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 14](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-14.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 15](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-15.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 16](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-16.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 17](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-17.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 18](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-18.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 19](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-19.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 20](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-20.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 21](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-21.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 22](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-22.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 23](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-23.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 24](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-24.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 25](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-25.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 26](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-26.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 27](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-27.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 28](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-28.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 29](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-29.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 30](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-30.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 31](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-31.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 32](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-32.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 33](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-33.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 34](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-34.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 35](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-35.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 36](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-36.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 37](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-37.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 38](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-38.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 39](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-39.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 40](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-40.jpg)
![Artist Guy Laramee Turns Old Books Into Stunningly Natural Landscape Sculptures 41](https://visualflood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/artist-guy-laramee-turns-old-books-into-stunningly-natural-landscape-sculptures-41.jpg)