Artist
Born in Montreal in 1948, Gérard Dansereau worked as a photographer and graphic artist. He taught graphic art for several years at junior college level. In a mirror like fashion, Dansereau’s art reveals a certain ambivalence between the pictorial and the graphic. The eye of the beholder moves from one register to another before returning to the starting point. His generous use of letters, numbers and collages, amalgamates and synthesizes painting and graphics. The artist plays intentionally on these registers so that we do not know if we are in a comic book or caricature world or in a universe of rich, bright, colourful painting.
A true storyteller, Dansereau knows how to play with ambivalence in a harmonious way that
leaves no one indifferent. Actually, the artist’s use of imagination helps explain why children
appreciate his work so much. Youngsters spontaneously enter into Dansereau’s dreamlike universe
and make up their own story. In fact, Dansereau, who takes pains to avoid theorizing on painting,
thus unwittingly returns to the traditional narrative of art. Concerning his latest creations, he
has designed “Julie’s rocket”, a customised patch for the Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, in
spring 1999.
Bibliography/videography
1997 Radio, Radio-Canada
Journal, Le Soleil, Québec
1993 et 1997 Journal, La Presse, Montréal
1993 Journal de Montréal
1992 et 1994 Magazine, Le Guide Parcours
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