Despite a background in environmental design and woodworking, Yves Gendreau considers himself a self-taught researcher, architect, construction worker, sculptor and “bâtisseur d’idées instables” (“builder of unstable ideas”). Fragility is indeed a prevalent theme in his work, reflected in vast yet ephemeral construction sites and anarchic, precarious installations of an often humorous nature. In addition to participating in many exhibitions, events and symposiums held in Quebec and other provinces, Switzerland and France, he has created works for the integration of art into architecture, notably at the Ministère du Transport in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the Desjardins pavilion of the Hull hospital in Gatineau, the Juliette-Lassonde arts pavilion in Saint-Hyacinthe and the Concorde subway station in Laval. He is also a founding member of Granby’s 3e Impérial, centre d’essai en art actuel, where he currently serves as technical and administrative director.
SEE:
« L’art et l’eau » by Marc Leblanc, ESPACE, vol. 5, n° 4, p. 33.
« Symposium à Val-d’Or » by Max de Carrier, ESPACE #25, p. 46.
