Yannick Pouliot (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Exhibition catalogue of mid-career retrospective of the Quebec installation artist. Numerous full page colour installation shots. Critical essay in French and English. Lyric by Quebec musician Pierre Lapointe and bibliography in French only. Tiny 1/2cm tear to lower edge of front cover. Very slight bend to book. Otherwise a fine paperback copy with no marks, inscriptions or fading to inside pages. Binding is firm. 63 pages. s200.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Yannick Pouliot recently burst onto the art scene and immediately earned critical acclaim for the originality of his work. Using various media, notably sculpture, photography and sound, he assigns a leading role to architecture and furnishings in order to create environments that enfold and isolate the visitor. The isolation (or alienation) of contemporary society is echoed in disjointed settings and in furniture closed in on itself, precluding any possibility of normal use, and afflicted with excrescences, forced linkages and disarticulations , writes Lanctot. Pouliot's installations confront us with society and its decadence through a spellbinding visual, emotional and kinesthetic expe rience. A surprising contributor to this first monograph is Pierre Lapointe, one of Quebec''s most acclaimed young singer songwriters.…