Yvan Genest
Since more than 35 years, Yvan Genest’s works attract an international circle of collectors, seduced by the contemporary and timeless strength of his iconography.
Yvan Genest’s career had unconventional beginnings. At first, his artistic temperament drove him to music. As a songwriter, musician and singer, he toured throughout Europe as a performer for many years, until he discovered painting, where he found an unforeseen ground for his fertile imagination.
Yvan Genest’s maverick personality drove him to explore all paths of visual arts and develop his unique, shamanic and timeless imagery. A self-taught artist, he paints as a dancer dances, with both his body and spirit. His influences are diverse, from Expressionism and modern free-form figurative painting.
Yvan’s art is spiritual and emerge in the form of characters that he transforms until they inhabit the canvas and take possession of it. Their final presence acts as a parable for the great mystery of our passage in life.
« A painting is a door, a passage. Beyond this door, when I paint, I am a fashion designer for the soul. »
Since more than 35 years, Yvan Genest’s works attract an international circle of collectors, seduced by the contemporary and timeless strength of his iconography.
Yvan Genest’s career had unconventional beginnings. At first, his artistic temperament drove him to music. As a songwriter, musician and singer, he toured throughout Europe as a performer for many years, until he discovered painting, where he found an unforeseen ground for his fertile imagination.
Yvan Genest’s maverick personality drove him to explore all paths of visual arts and develop his unique, shamanic and timeless imagery. A self-taught artist, he paints as a dancer dances, with both his body and spirit. His influences are diverse, from Expressionism and modern free-form figurative painting.
Yvan’s art is spiritual and emerge in the form of characters that he transforms until they inhabit the canvas and take possession of it. Their final presence acts as a parable for the great mystery of our passage in life.
« A painting is a door, a passage. Beyond this door, when I paint, I am a fashion designer for the soul. »