Just like Charles Daudelin, Germain Bergeron became interested in sculpture after meeting Frère Jérôme at Collège Nôtre-Dame. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and is primarily known for sculptures made from scrap metal and various mechanical accessories that he transforms into symbolic figures. When invited to the 1970 Symposium Formes Nouvelles du Québec in Shefferville, Bergeron constructed Homme de fer (“man of steel”), which raised a scandal at the time with its prominent sexual member. In 1978, he produced a monumental work for Montreal’s Monk subway station; a tribute to the workers who built the underground system, it comprises two sculptures over six metres tall – painted steel tubes in the form of workers wielding a pick and shovel. Another one of Bergeron’s works, Le Cycliste (“the cyclist”; 1990), is located in Vancouver Park on Île-des-Sœurs. The tubular sculpture, painted red and black, is a schematized representation of a cyclist leaning forward on his bike.
SEE:
« Sculpture : Séduction ’90 : Un bilan » by Charlotte Gingras, ESPACE, vol. 7 #1, p. 37.
