Push and Pull
Attention! Haute tension
1978
Serigraphy, metal
102 x 80 x 3.5 cm / 40.2 x 31.5 x 1.4 in
Nœud coulant
1979
Serigraphy and rope
71 x 56 cm / 28 x 22 in
Fil à plomb
1978
Serigraphy and white string
103 x 77 cm / 40.6 x 30.3 in
Sans titre
Serigraphy on thermoformed plastic, wood
20 x 110 x 75 cm / 7.9 x 43.3 x 29.5 in
Sans titre
1971
Serigraphy
40 x 30 cm / 15.7 x 11.8 in
Sans titre
1971
Serigraphy
40 x 30 cm / 15.7 x 11.8 in
Entendu que
1970
Serigraphy
101 x 67 cm / 39.8 x 26.4 in
Sleeping Bag
1969
Serigraphy and wire
52.1 x 66.1 cm / 20.5 x 26 in
Sleeping Bag
1969
Serigraphy and wire
52.1 x 66.1 cm / 20.5 x 26 in
Sans titre
1973
Serigraphy
61 x 51 cm / 24 x 20.1 in
Sans titre
1973
Serigraphy
112 x 51 cm / 44.1 x 20.1 in
Séquence de trois
1971
Serigraphy and holes
101.5 x 76 cm / 40 x 29.9 in
Two Heads (colour)
2007
Collage
24 x 28 cm / 9.4 x 11 in
Stripes
2005
Collage, mixed media
13 x 9.5 cm / 5.1 x 3.7 in
Sans Titre (Explosion no. 4)
2011
Ink jet print
62.2 x 39.7 cm / 24.5 x 15.6 in
C-3
1978
Serigraphy
71.5 x 56.5 cm / 28.1 x 22.2 in
Portrait de Gosselin
1981
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait de Madeleine Forcier
1982
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait de Wolfe
1982
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait d'Yves Gaucher
1982
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait d'Yvon Cozic
1980
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait de Serge Tousignant
1980
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait de Serge Lemoyne
1981
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Portrait de Jean-Claude Pretre
1981
Serigraphy
50 x 66 cm / 19.7 x 26 in
Six pieds deux, les yeux bleus
1977
Serigraphy
73 x 57 cm / 28.7 x 22.4 in
I want to turn the usual reading of Ayot’s practice inside out, like one would do with a pullover or with a sock, in order to show the ‘’seams’’ of his work.[...]
- Excerpt from the text of curator Nicolas Mavrikakis
Unabridged curator's text
« At Joyce Yahouda Gallery, the exhibition Push and Pull is one part of the major Pierre Ayot retrospective (1943-1995) that I organized in a number of venues: Grande bibliothèque of BAnQ, Guido Molinari Foundation, Graff Gallery and B-312 Gallery. Some of Ayot’s artworks are also exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Joliette Museum.
Art critics and art historians often described Pierre Ayot as a maker of playful artworks and of intricate trompe-l’oeil.
Strangely, Ayot has been less frequently analyzed from another perspective- that of ‘deconstructing’ representations. I want to turn the usual reading of Ayot’s practice inside out, like one would do with a pullover or with a sock, in order to show the ‘’seams’’ of his work. During his career, Ayot placed a certain emphasis on the elements making up the image and on their materiality. This is a quality that is usually attributed to abstract painters, like the Plasticians. In this exhibition titled Push and Pull, by exhibiting some of Ayot’s artworks alongside other works by artists from different generations, who are more openly associated with formalistic issues, I want to highlight how Ayot also explored and provided an original reflection about an artwork’s materiality.»
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