Trained as a ceramist, Gilbert Poissant gradually expanded into other technical and aesthetic spheres. This multi-disciplinary artist has created murals, installations and sculptures, employing various materials, such as stone, wood, paper and found objects, as well as digital processes. Renowned for his contribution to public art, Gilbert has produced more than 40 commissions of artworks that are incorporated into the architecture.
Selected projects
Mon atlas 3D
Installation / 2019-2021 / Paper, pins / 110 cm x 244 cm x 367 cm
On the scale of a large model, I create a utopian territory in homage to the places I inhabit. This self-portrait illustrates my interest in architecture and geography as well as my attachment to the land.
Photos by Gilbert Poissant
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Mon atlas
Collages
I was five years old when I first climbed Mont Saint-Hilaire to Pain de Sucre. Witness to my childhood escapades, the mountain has been a refuge, but also a world to explore. As teenagers, under the influence of substances, we believed in various beliefs such as that the mountain was a landing place for aliens (Invisible fields). The series includes ten other plates.
Collages / 2016 / paper, pins, acrylic / 102 x 122 x 9 cm
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L'objet et le territoire
Personal exhibition at Expression, centre d'exposition in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec / 2016 / Commissionner: Mona Hakim
Gilbert Poissant’s artistic production is imposing and polymorphic. The exhibition The object and the territory reflects the variety of modes of expression that developed around ceramics. (Mona Hakim)
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H2O
Mosaïc / Centre aquatique de Saint-Constant / 2020 / Porcelain
Photos by: Alain Boisvert
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Le Jeu du collectionneur
Personal exhibition at Centre d’exposition Circa, Montréal, Québec
Commissionner: Pascale Beaudet
Year of achievement: 2008
Material: Found objects, wood, acrylic
The basis of the exhibition is a wall installation of more than 600 found objects, meticulously classified according to their dimensions that, for decades, Gilbert Poissant has amassed aimlessly. This wall sculpture presents a dichotomous aspect since the playfulness of the gathering opposes the seriousness of the classification and the assembly.
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Objets spécifiques
Specific items are chosen from those in the Collector's Game. The digitization of each of the 600 objects produces a "letter" which will make up an alphabet. This graphic vocabulary is used by Gilbert to create endless other works on porcelain or paper.
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Patatras and Splash
Materials : Crimped Porcelain
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Traversée
Mural for Parc municipal du Grand Lac Saint-François, Lambton, Québec
Year of achievement: 2011
Material: porcelain and stainless steel
Dimension: 290 x 150 x 8 cm
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Icare
École Eurêka, Granby, Québec
Year of achievement: 2011
Material: Inkjet printing on porcelain
Dimensions: 300 x 500 x 8 cm
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Correlieu
CLSC des Patriotes, Beloeil, Québec
Year of achievement: 2009
Material: Digital photography, glass, anodized aluminum
Dimensions : 500 x 250 x 15 cm
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L'été
Otterburn Park Public pool / 2020 / Porcelain and stainless steel
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Ceramics
In Japan, the term Kaiseki means ceremonial meal. The porcelains of this series are unique pieces, shaped by hand or thermoformed from tiles of industrial origin.
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5 x 2 Temps
Personnal exhibition at Expression, Centre d'exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe / 1997
5 FOIS 2 TEMPS consists of two (2) series of five (5) murals in the colors of day and night which respond to each other by their shape and attempt, through graphic representations, to raise questions about the nature of time. Round or linear in shape, they illustrate the staircase, the drop, the tree, the moon, the ruler.
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Passe-Temps
École nationale d’administration publique, Québec, Québec
Year of achievement: 1999
Material: marble and granit
Dimensions: 6 300 x 9 500 cm
Passe-lune
Location: Hôpital général du Lakeshore, Pointe-Claire, Québec
Year of achievement: 2002
Material: Earthenware, stainless steel
Arrêt sur espace
Personal exhibition at Plein sud, Centre d’exposition en art actuel, Longueuil
Year of achievement: 2001
Materlal: Wood and ceramic
Dimensions: various
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Planète jeu
Location : Campus récréatif Germain-Désourdy, Bromont, Québec
Year of achievement : 2018
Dimensions : each mural: 106 x 106 x 5 cm
Material : Set porcelain, stainless steel
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Architectures intimes
Location: Diptych for Faculté de médecine vétérinaire de l’Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
Year of achievement: 2006
Material: Industrial and hand-made porcelain, stainless steel
Dimensions: 275 x 345 cm
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Tableaux
Interactive murals
Materials : porcelain and aluminium, chalks and brushes
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Variations
In 1997, Poissant began working on geometric shapes using various materials such as industrial porcelain, handmade earthenware, inkjet printing on paper. This body of work will be completed in 2014.
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Le Passe-Goutte
Location: École primaire de Saint-Zotique, Saint-Zotique, Québec
Year of achievement: 1997
Material: White granit, black granit, Analemmatic sundial
Dimensions: 400 x 400 x 50 cm
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La mesure du temps
Diptych for Option théâtre du Cegep de Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
Year of achievement: 1994
Material: Porcelain mosaic
Dimensions: various
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Archéologies Imaginaires
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Jardins de tessons
Jardin de tessons is an installation made up of ceramic shards (tessons) collected and sorted over twenty years and presented five times between 1988 and 2009.
Material: Ceramic shards, metal and found objects
Dimensions: various
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