Georges Dyens was a student of Ossip Zadkine at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He also attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the New York Holographic Laboratories, later earning the Prix du Bronze at the Biennale de Paris and the Premier Grand prix de Rome. He was awarded a residency at the French Academy in Rome from 1962 to 1965, creating fractured and tormented bronze sculptures during his time at the Villa Medici. After moving to Canada, he became a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1969. He soon discovered holography and produced his first Holosculpture, combining music, light, holography and sculpture in an installation that changed over time as determined by a computer program. He is also a curator and conference speaker, as well as the founder of MGD Productions (1981), an organization that builds monumental techno-luminous works. In 1984, he was named artist in residence at the Museum of Holography in New York; he returned in 1988 to open the season in the Big Apple, holding exhibitions at the Museum of Holography and at the Alternative Museum. From 1995 to 1998, he was invited by the Mississippi Museum of Art to represent Canada in a touring show featuring seven prominent holographers. He would also represent Canada at Les Sciences dans l’art (1997), an exhibition organized at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
SEE:
« Georges Dyens : Dans la tourmente » by Isabelle Riendeau, ESPACE #48, p. 41.
« ”Rupture”, You Say? » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #92, p. 5.
« The Digital Fine Arts » by Hervé Fischer, ESPACE #92, p. 22.