Yves Louis-Seize has an MFA in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1989), where he is a professor of sculpture and ceramics. He has also taught at the Centre de céramique Bonsecours (Montreal) and the Cégep du Vieux Montréal. Since 1981, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and received research grants from various organizations. Though influenced by the emergence of minimalism early in his career, he explores strange worlds through his sculptures: neither abstract nor figurative, these works are instead discreetly symbolic, touching on the fragility and precarious balance of both people and things. These themes are reflected in the titles of certain pieces, such as Après le passage à l’autre rive (“after crossing to the other side”; 1989), L’Homme inquiété par le temps (“the man preoccupied with time”; 1997) and Avant, Pendant et Après…Planéité Fluide (“before, during and after…fluid planarity”; 2005). The formal characteristic of Louis-Seize’s practice lies in the ambiguity of his materials (steel and clay), which are at times combined to appear as one, while his larger ceramic pieces often resemble metal. His most recent undertakings include a mural installed at the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince (Haiti, 2002) and the presentation of his works at the Biennale de céramique contemporaine in Châteauneuf (France, 2005).
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« Yves Louis-Seize : Passage… à l’Autre rive » by Édouard Lachapelle, ESPACE, vol. 5 #2, p. 18.
« Time Arrested and Time Passing (between emergent myth and historical possibility) : The Sculpture of Yves Louis-Seize » by Sara Amato, ESPACE #19, p. 19.
« Yves Louis-Seize : L’homme inquiété par le temps » by John K. Grande, ESPACE #43, p. 28.
« De la sculpture comme brèche : Paul-Émile Saulnier, Yves Louis-Seize, Robert Saucier » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #63, p. 37.
« Laura St-Pierre, Yves Louis-Seize : Litter and Loss » by Tai Van Toorn, ESPACE #80, p. 34.
« Circa 1988-2008 : Entretien de Serge Fisette avec Yves Louis-Seize » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #87, p. 27.
« Du métier d’art… à la sculpture événement » by Madeleine Dorée, ESPACE, vol. 4, no 2, p. 22.
« Circa 25 ans » by Lise Lamarche, ESPACE #105, p. 30.
