Benoît Tremblay
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Benoît Tremblay STATEMENT It’s getting harder and harder for me to create. It’s not the same as it was when I started to do exhibitions in 2004, which was the first show I truly got to participate in. I’d say that my first influences were Pollock and Basquiat. That’s why I started to paint in the first place. Around 2005, I travelled in Germany and got in touch with Dadaism. It shook me more politically than artistically, since I was and still am into anarchism and I read a lot about the Situationists and other avant-garde of the postwar era. So I started to incorporate old newspapers into my paintings. At first, I used to clean cut paper and stuff that I mixed into my paintings. Around 2007, I started to use the techniques of tearing up the papers and making shapes with them. Today, I use both techniques, as well as tearing up and cutting papers to create collages using old images. I usually don’t use new images or contemporary images. It’s really rare that I do collage on the basis of collage only. Sometimes, yes… But mostly, I use the forms of collage to incorporate them into paintings or, sometimes, I makes collages and incorporate ink, charcoal or even pastels into the collages. BIO Multidisciplinary artist Bent was born in Montreal’s Southwest Borough in 1975. An autodidact, he never studied art in an institution and he happily sees himself as an anti-academic artist. His influences are as wide as a 1000 colours you might place on a palette at the same time. From Pollock to Basquiat, via Asger Jorn, Jacqueline De Jong, Jeppesen Victor Martin or Gil Joseph Wolman, the painter Bent is tries his best to create visual reflections that can disturb life. Since 2004, he has had over 10 solo exhibitions and participated in 7 group art shows. He loves to travel and he sometimes creates work abroad that he finishes in the comfort of his workshop in his garage in Montreal. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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