Trained as a visual artist in France, Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec developed a sensitive approach to questions of landscape and territory. Furthermore, one of the characteristic features of his academic career at the University of Montreal is to have reconciled the field of arts with that of social and environmental sciences by favoring interdisciplinary dialogue and more broadly the inclusion of knowledge from all walks of life. The aesthetics of landscapes and the critical and sensitive approach to landscape constitute the cornerstone of his creative field.
His perspective lies at the crossroads of “Concrete Art”, “Constructed Art” and the “Hard Edge” artistic movements. From these references a singular pictorial identity emerges, that of a narrative figuration where intertwined landscapes and bodies are articulated into complex compositions. These figures of impressions and expressions are an obvious extension of his research on the concept of landscape carried out in the 2000s. They suggest a distancing from perceived reality, an “artialization”.
Juxtaposition, superposition, opposition constitute the expressive support of his artworks just like the dynamics of pure and fluid lines which play on colored surfaces. These works are sensual, joyful, luminous and open to interpretation.