Yvon Goulet

Yvon Goulet was born in 1956 in Quebec. He now works and live Montreal. Painter and printmaker, he also produces artist's book. He prefer to use recycled material for his work, enhanced with some vernacular techniques. Yvon Goulet finished a baccalaureate at University du Quebec à Hull in 1988. En 1989 he collaborated with Philipp Fry, from Ottawa University to a land art project in Oxford-on-Rideau, Ontario . He did participate to several national and international exhibitions. In 2003 he was part of the travelling 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 Int. Minigravats, Barcelona, Spain, (1997) Kanagawa 18 th Print International, Japan (1995); Musée Adzak, Paris, (1993) and Arts 1992 ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium, (1992).

Yvon Goulet works as a visual historian, searching for cultural artefacts in Montreal's gay village. 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. "I articulate the world in which I live, in a word, the gay village. Unlike many other artists, I take the male body not as an end in itself, but as a tool that allows me to move toward the representation of urban life, and toward a social statement about my epoch". Forever cut up, divided and constructed, his paintings juxtapose numerous episodic fragments that are associated with gay values and that, once assembled, form a multidimensional vision of the gay community. Yvon Goulet has his studio on 1434 Poupart, Montreal, Quebec H2K 3E8. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yvon-Goulet/6441478219