Yves Trudeau CM RCA (1930 – 2017) was a Canadian sculptor and a prominent figure in 20th-century art in Quebec, especially public art.
Yves Trudeau studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and began his career in the 1950s. At first concentrating on bronze sculptures, he later incorporated wood and iron into his works.
Yves Trudeau, one of the most significant artists of his generation, was known for having a rigorous sculptural practice with an underlying social message. His activities as a founding member of the Association des sculpteurs du Québec, for which he also served as president, led to the creation of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Trudeau became involved with a number of associations to promote the rights and status of artists. Having studied a range of artistic disciplines in his youth, Trudeau first worked primarily as a ceramicist before turning his attention to sculpture in the late 1950s. His work from the 1960s features a more expressionistic and abstract approach to materials, echoing the great social upheavals of the period.
Trudeau used a mixture of materials such as wood and metal (iron, bronze, aluminum), and made them interact with each other through complex textures and configurations, often in an ascending movement that emphasized verticality. From the 1970s onward his style became more pared-down, as evidenced in his open and closed “wall” works in which folded volumes are rhythmically spaced to actively interact with those who experience them.
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| Rythme oval, circa 1963 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1964 |
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| Haut-relief, circa 1964 |
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Maquette pour "Haut-relief", circa 1964-94
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| Chrysalide (Iron and Wood Series), circa 1965 |
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| Horus, circa 1965 |
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| Esquisse pour relief - L'homme dans la cité, circa 1966 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1966 |
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| Trirème, circa 1966 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1967 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1970 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1970 |
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| Mur ouvert, circa 1971 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1971 |
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| Paix, circa 1972 |
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| Paix, circa 1973 |
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| Abstraction, circa 1975 |
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| Mur fermé et ouvert (Projet pour métro), circa 1977 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1980 |
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| Sans titre, circa 1980 |
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| La croix du sud, circa 1983 |
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| Le masque, circa 1984 |
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| Arc-boutant, circa 1986 |
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| Sculpture en bronze, circa 1991 |
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| Sans titre, circa 2000 |
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| Cathédrale, circa 2005 |
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| Parvis et Portail #27, circa 2005 |
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| Abstrait, circa 2006 |
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Chapiteaux I, circa 2010
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| Mur fermé et ouvert Nº XXVII |
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| Parvis et portails |
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| Tridimensional Expansion |
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