Creatively charged before coming to term, it was while performing a pasde deux in the amniotic
fluid that Pol Turgeon managed to warp the umbilical cord around his neck several times.
This traumatic episode has been identified as the psychological wellspring from which all these
bizarre and unsettling images flow. It appears that there is no cure!
For more than twenty five years, Turgeon has profaned the international environment by
unabashedly inseminating magazines, corporate brochures, book covers, posters and annual reports
with his iconoclastic pieces of art. It is a perplexing and unresolved enigma that these horrific images
have managed to gain Turgeon more than two hundred awards worldwide and have been selected
repeatedly by juries for art annuals such as the prestigious American Illustration or the
Communication Arts Annual.
Turgeon evidently suffers from a phobia of artistic boundaries. One analyst indiscreetly suggested
that Turgeon had taken what the reputed psychoanalyst C.G. Jung referred to as active
imagination and turned it into a pathological delirium. When reminded of this, Turgeon responds:
This doctor never existed. He was a figment of my imagination
The pieces in this exhibition were created with the help of the following materials: in, gouache, egg yolk,
shoe polish, collage, pencil, masking tape, bleach, oil and multiple layers of varnish.
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