Jean Gauguet-Larouche studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1959 to 1962, the year he founded “Les Jardins de la Jeune Sculpture” in Val-Menaud, Quebec. His work includes poetry collections and films such as La Grande Aventure du fer et de la sculpture au Québec (1972) and Je me Souviens, which examined the state of cultural property in danger of being lost. He also produced sculptures, including a series of percussion sculptures that he presented in public in the mid-sixties. He participated in the Symposium d’Alma in 1966 and the Formes Nouvelles du Québec symposium in Schefferville/Sept-Îles in 1970; in 1971, he worked alongside sculptor Gérard Bélanger to create housing units in Côte-Nord. In 1976, he was invited to take part in Trois générations d’art québécois 1940-1950-1960, an exhibition held at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
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« La forme qui libère » by François-Marc Gagnon, ESPACE, vol. 4 #2, p. 6.
« De l’objet… contaminé » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #53, p. 35.
« Was Quebec’s Cultural Revolution Accomplished by Tossing Art in the Trash? » by Fabien Loszach, ESPACE #89, p. 12.
