March 1st 2013

MICHEL GOULET: (In)Common

Opening Reception Saturday March 2nd, 2-6pm
Exhibition runs until: April 3rd, 2013
Christopher Cutts Gallery, 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto ON M6R 2H9 1(416)532-5566

Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to host its 5th solo exhibition by celebrated
Canadian artist Michel Goulet. Goulet who lives and works in Montreal, Canada
has had numerous exhibitions in important public institutions and created over
40 permanent site-specific installations nationally and internationally. He has also
been honored with a number of distinguished awards. Such as: representing
Canada at the Venice Biennial in 1988, a recipient of the Paul–Émile Borduas
prize in 1990, The Governor General Award in 2008, an honorary doctorate from
the University of Sherbrooke in 2010, and in 2012 was appointed as a member
of the Order of Canada.

This exhibition titled (In)Common features a number of new sculptural
installations that extend Goulet’s artistic practice of utilizing and combining
everyday mundane objects in the realization of a new and dynamic aesthetic
order. This order encourages the viewer to participate in the interpretation and
reinvention of the creative process, which allows one to rethink the banal, by
visual recognition, association and manipulation.

Goulet states that, “My work is not a comfort for the soul, but rather an
intermediary to meet people and begin a dialogue. Those that I speak to will
often be surprised and at times amused, or disconcerted by my artifacts that
question the reality of things and the values of our consumer society. I am
attempting to produce an initial shock that perhaps will continue in the mind and
experience of the viewer.”

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