{"id":3376,"date":"2017-05-21T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2019-12-24T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T21:02:54","slug":"benoit-tremblay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/benoit-tremblay","title":{"rendered":"Beno\u00eet Tremblay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n…\u00c0 s’en arracher les yeux<\/em>
\n21.3″x33.5″; drawn paper and ink on cardboard; 2016<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet Tremblay
\nMontreal, Quebec, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0first show I truly got to\u00a0participate 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\u00a0into anarchism and I read a lot about the Situationists and other avant-garde of the postwar era.<\/p>\n

So I started to incorporate\u00a0old 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\u00a0up and cutting papers to create collages using\u00a0old images. I usually don’t use new images or contemporary\u00a0images. 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\u00a0collages and incorporate ink, charcoal or even pastels into the collages.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Multidisciplinary artist Bent was born in Montreal’s Southwest Borough\u00a0in 1975. An autodidact, he never studied art in an institution and he happily sees himself as\u00a0an anti-academic artist. His influences are as wide as a 1000 colours you might place\u00a0on 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\u00a0is tries his best to create\u00a0visual reflections that can disturb life. Since 2004, he has had over\u00a010 solo exhibitions and participated in 7 group\u00a0art shows. He loves to travel and he sometimes creates work abroad that he finishes\u00a0in the comfort of his workshop in his garage in Montreal.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.bentpotlatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Creuser-le-quotidien..\"
\nCreuser le quotidien…<\/em>
\n21.3″x33.5″; drawn paper and ink on cardboard; 2016<\/p>\n

\"L'Oeil-Fumig\u00e8ne-Hommage-a-Gil-Joseph-Wolman-I\"
\nL’oeil Fumig\u00e8ne-d'(h)ommage \u00e0 Gil Joseph Wolman<\/em>
\n23.6″x18″; paper and fine filtered paper on cardboard; 2013<\/p>\n

\"L'oubli-est-notre-seule-passion-dominante-II\"
\nL’Oubli est notre passion dominante II<\/em>
\n21.3″x33.5″; printed paper on cardboard; 2016<\/p>\n

\"benoit-tremblay-technique-du-detournement-dhommage-a-gil-joseph-wolman-ii\"
\nTechnique du d\u00e9tournement-d'(h)ommage \u00e0 Gil Joseph Wolman II<\/em>
\n18″x23.6″; printed paper and spilled ink on cardboard; 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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