News from 2007
Abstract art from yesterday to tomorrow
14/10/2007 to 26/10/2007
Author :Galerie Michel-Ange
Date : 10/10/2007
Awakening,
46 x 61 cm (18 X 24 inches), Val David, summer 2007.
From October 14 to 26 marcel Barbeau participates in the exhibition L’art abstrait d’hier à demain (Abstract art from yesterday to tomorrow) at Galerie Michel-Ange (Michel-Ange art gallery), in Montréal.
Galerie Michel-Ange is located at 430 rue Bonsecours, in Old Montreal
Be Bomb. The Transatlantic War of Images and All that Jazz. – 1946-1956
04/10/2007 to 07/01/2008
Photo : Sans titre (1950)
In 1949, Life Magazine named Jackson Pollock the year’s most important living painter. And before long, the artist from Wyoming had become a mass culture icon, and his work – along with that of his fellow abstract expressionists – had become the quintessential symbol of the liberal values of the American way of life. Efforts were also made to export these values throughout the Western world as a paradigm of cultural identity opposed to the propaganda of the Soviet bloc.
As Serge Guilbaut wrote: «As this period was crucial to national reconstruction and social re-organization in France as well as in the US, artistic production became a key site for ideological debates during the Cold War, and since the Bomb was unusable, art and culture in general became the weapons of choice.»
Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 brought together an enormous number of artworks, films, magazines and other documents that illustrated and reinterpreted the intense cultural dialogue that took place between Europe (in this case, France and Spain) and the United States.
Source : Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (macba)
Marcel Barbeau’s painting preseted in this exhibition was a part of the exhibition the Rebels in 1950.It belonged to Paul-Émile Borduas who had acquired it following this exhibition. It belongs since 2002 to the Museum of the Fine arts(School of Fine Arts) of Montreal. Let us note that it is the first time when ti is exposed since 1950.
Baie Saint-Paul International Seminar of Contemporary Art 25th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition
02/06/2007 to 06/01/2008
Faithful visitor of Charlevoix since the beginning of the fifties, summer resident of Saint-Irénée, then Pointe-au-Pic between 1974 and 2003, Marcel Barbeau followed closely the Symposium of contemporary Baie Saint-Paul since his creation. In 1990, Barbeau was the invited artist of this event. As such, he produced in public two monumental paintings and 5 paintings of large for this event. One of them belongs to the Centre d’exposition de Baie Saint-Paul. It is presented in this anniversary exhibition with some other works produced within the framework of this event during the last twenty five years. The group exhibition includes artists’ works which, as Barbeau, were in the spotlight of this event and major artists.
Centre d’exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul
23, rue Ambroise-Fafard
Bay(Berry) – Saint-Paul, Quebec
Canada, G3Z 2J2
Telephone: 418 ) 435-3681
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MARCEL BARBEAU AT THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY OF VANCOUVER
25/01/2007
Thursday, January 25, artist Marcel Barbeau has given a talk at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. This event was organized by the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.The CASV is a non-profit cultural association of art lovers. Theses meeting with personalities of the canadian and international art field are open to public, while offering a priority to its members. marcel barbeau and ninon gauthier wre the first guest of the CASV’s this 2007 season.
In a very informal mood, Marcel Barbeau talked about movement and liberty as main sources and inspiration for his art, offering a survey of his work, illustrated by slides. Art historian Ninon Gauthier, the artist’s wife, particpated in this meeting as a moderator and she occasionnaly gave complementary historical information. The public participated very warly in this exchange of idea about the artist’s work and vision.
This exceptional meeting between the artist and Vancouver art lovers was followed by a reception at the Elliott Louis, representing Marcel Barbeau in Vancouver. Its director, ted Lederer has hung a few Barbeau,s painting for this evening, as a reminder of the exhibtion marcel barbeau vertiginous Limits, that he had presented in April 2006.
This event has received Quebec Art and leters Council‘s support through a traveling grant that it gave to the artist.