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Yvon Goulet

Maison Kasini

Alma Mater 1 (turkeys)
48"x72"
posterboard: plastic political sign

Yvon Goulet works as a visual historian, searching for cultural artifacts in Montreal’s gay village. Goulet works and lives in Montreal. Painter and printmaker, he also produces artist’s books. He prefers to use recycled material for his work, enhanced with some vernacular techniques. Goulet is a folklorist artist. The history he paints is both local, and global, in that he mixes imagery and faces unique to the village, with overarching representations of gay male subculture. His paintings, which are inspired by festive and cultural events in that community, enable him to express daily reality, record the events in question and feature the male body as an active participant within the gay community. The hidden world of uniforms, fetishes, stereotypes, fantasies, and imagination are fused with a reality that is known to most. He takes people and situations that are usually reserved for the few and, through his art, makes them accessible to all. Goulet explores his surroundings, and with it, creates a statement in his art. He works and lives Montreal. He prefers to use recycled material for his work, enhanced with some vernacular techniques.

Goulet finished a baccalaureate at University du Quebec à Hull in 1988. In 1989 he collaborated with Philipp Fry on a land art project in Oxford-on-Rideau, Ontario. He participated in several national and international exhibitions. In 2003, he exhibited an artist’s book Touche ça at Galerie 303 in the Belgo Building, Montreal; he was part of the traveling exhibition “The Gay Body” at Vieux Palais, Saint-Jérome, Quebec, (2002); he presented an artist’s book Danger at IV Rencontres Internationales, Marseille, France (2001); L’art et le papier IV, Jean-Claude Bergeron Gallery, Ottawa (2000); Sen-Art, biennial, Vert-Saint-Denis, France (1998); Mostra International Minigravats, Barcelona, Spain (1997); Kanagawa 18th Print International, Japan (1995); Musée Adzak, Paris (1993); and Arts 1992 ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium (1992). He has also shown at the QUAB Gallery in Calgary, at Kasini House Gallery in Burlington, Vermont (2007), and, most recently, “Animal” at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montréal (2010), for which an artist catalogue, Animal, was published.

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