Representation of the human body is intimately related to art: idealized or natural body, nude or clothed, joyful or tormented. In his recent production, Yannick De Serre pursues a reflection relative to the body in art and, more specifically, the relationship between the body and clothing.
Yannick De Serre defines himself as recycling painter. He endeavours to redefine the human body by gluing clothes on canvas and adding painted body parts (arms, legs, neck…) With the addition of articles of clothing glued to the canvas, the artist reshapes the pictorial surface, gives it immediacy, sensuality and amplitude, as he pursues his insistent exploration of clothing as an accomplice of the body and identity.
With pieces of clothing donated by seven Québec designers, (among them Marie Saint-Pierre, Rudsak, Philippe Dubuc, Mariouche Gagné / Harricana, Annie Langlois / On and On), Yannick De Serre highlights particular aspects of their creations: the lines as well as the materials. His pictorial works thus illustrate the convergence of two fields of creation: fashion and visual art. A fusion of the canvas and textiles.
De Serre strives to give shape to the poetry of clothes and to convey their meaning as well as their sensitivity and identity. Yannick De Serre underscores a paradox: clothing as a concealer, clothing as a revealer.