Yves Trudeau received his training at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. In 1960, he was one of the founders of the Association des sculpteurs du Québec, which later became the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec. He taught at Université du Québec à Montréal, and his works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. The Côte-Vertu Métro station, inaugurated in 1986, contains his artwork Relief, négatif positif, consisting of two stainless-steel murals.
Yves Trudeau is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and became a member of the Order of Canada in 1995.
Artwork description
Originally commissioned as the doors for the head office boardroom of Téléglobe Canada in Montreal, the reinstallation of this bas-relief was an important part of Concordia’s plan to incorporate art in public spaces. Trudeau imagined a bifurcated aerial route overshooting a synthesized planet in the form of vaguely continental masses. He moves from a terrestrial to a spatial plane in the same piece. Symbolizing the global network and rise of the technological age, the work in its new location aptly retains the message that a world better connected can only advance relationships between individuals and their ideas.