JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER
BIOGRAPHIE
Born in Matane, Qc, Canada, in 1965
Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier, who has been active on the
contemporary art since the mid-1990s, has a hybrid practice that incorporates
visual arts and audio exploration. A virtuoso of everyday reality, an artisan
of contemporary art, an entomologist of sound, He sees, and hears, all the
acoustic and metaphorical potential of the found object, his kinetic installations incorporate humour and
poetry in
a highly rigorous artistic approach.
With rare ingenuity, his works embody contrasting ideas such as order and
chaos, permanence and fragility, orchestration and randomness.
These
composite installations produce a wide range of visual, kinetic and auditory
stimuli, resulting in an intense, almost dizzying experience. It is this
feeling of vertigo, almost exultation, that embodies the full power of his
works.
His work has been exhibited throughout Canada, the United States and
Europe. He was awarded the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2004 and received the
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, presented by the Canada Council for the
Arts to a mid-career artist, in 2005. (Pierre Landry- Curator at the MACM 2007)
Since 1998, he collaborated as a artist-musician in various sound festivals and venues with different groups including accomplished and professional musicians like Martin Tétreault, Diane Labrosse, Michel F. Coté, Christof Migone, Jean Derome, Mirko Sabatini, Vincezo Vasi. He is represented by Jack Shainman gallery in New York.
New release : CD
Album : Last Sound Music by Duo Travagliando (JP Gauthier- Mirko Sabatini) on the italian label La Arti Malandrine web site of the duo works :
UP COMING EXHIBITIONS
Solo
Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at play
In December 2009, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Nova-Scotia, Canada
In January 2010, the Grande Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta, CanadaI
This exhibition has been organized by the Musée d'art contemporain of Montréal (Quebec, Canada). This exhibitions as been presented at :
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal , Montréal, Qc, from February 10 th to April 22nd 2007
Akron Art Museum (Akron, Ohio, USA) from September 27th 2008 to January 4 th 2009.
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from January 6 th to April 5 th 2009
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton,Ontario, Canada,from February 1th to May 18th 2009
May 2010
Jean-Pierre Gauthier : Turbulures
At Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Group show
February 2010
Group show Arena : The Art of Hockey Vancouver during the Olympic winter games
This group exhibition has been organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). The
exhibition was first presented at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia from
April 5th to June 8th 2008. The tour started at the Art Gallery of
Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) from
October 4th 2008 to January 4th 2009, in Montréal at Musée juste pour rire from january 22 th to April 19 th 2009
and will be host by the Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) in September 2009.
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