Our friend Yvon Cozic has passed away
Photo Monic Brassard, April 30, 2020, at the time of Covid.
I met Yvon Cozic on several occasions. Each time, there was a smile on his radiant face, a pleasure in conversation, and the exchange of ideas about our cultural environment. Yvon was a positive and unmistakable person.
With Monic Brassard, his wife and partner in the artistic couple COZIC, the two artists produced a unique body of work that borders on playfulness and scientific study. Their art is situated in that difficult moment, poised between serious questioning and a trivial moment experienced in spontaneous wonder, free from all questioning. It is the poetic, joyful, and simple moment in which we are called to participate, to enter into the work. It is the moment of light.
COZIC, Altar of Little Mickeys (montage), 2003-2004,
Courtesy of Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
Photo © BNL MTL 2011 / Ed Kostinier.
We thank Yvon and Monic for allowing us to participate in some of their works. For bringing them to life, in a way, for giving them a life that touches us for a moment, a moment of life that we share with them and that unites us with art.
Monic told me that Yvon had told him before leaving: “I was loved.” He was right, we loved him.
Tributes to him will be held in August at the Cinémathèque québécoise and in September at Chiguer Art Contemporain.
Claude Gosselin, C.M.
COZIC, As Art (detail) 2011,
Courtesy of Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
Photo © BNL MTL 2011 / Ed Kostinier.
Links of interests :
L’artiste contemporain Yvon Cozic est décédé
https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/898108/artiste-contemporain-yvon-cozic-est-decede
L’inclassable Yvon Cozic n’est plus
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2025-07-07/l-inclassable-yvon-cozic-n-est-plus.php
Yvon cozic (1942-2025) : une grande perte pour l’art québécois
https://www.mnbaq.org/articles-audios-videos/yvon-cozic-1942-2025-une-grande-perte-pour-lart-quebecois
Cozic : Collectif actif de 1967 à 2025
https://macm.org/en/collections/artiste/cozic/