News from 2009
Artists of the Gallery
02/12/2009 to 31/12/2009
Auteur :Barbeau Marcel
Date : 26/10/2009
Frontière éclatée
Marcel Barbeau a produit cette peinture au cours de l’hiver 2008, à la toute fin de son dernier séjour à Paris.
This painting will be included in the last group show of the year at Winsor Gallery.
The Automatist mouvement in Greater Toronto and in Buffalo.
23/10/2009 to 28/02/2010
Author :Inconnu
Date : 23/10/2009
Marcel Barbeau in front of his painting “Ouvri”, at the opeing of the exhibition “The Automatist Revolution” at the Varley Art Gallery, Martkam public Gallery, a Toronto suburb.
Visiting Toronto, Marcel Barbeau attended the opening of the exhibition “The Automatist Revolution” at the Varley Art Gallery. As for any major event, Marcel Barbeau and is wife Ninon were wearing clothes by Yves-Jean Lacasse from Boutique Envers.
Marcel Barbeau at the Toronto Art Fair 2009
22/10/2009 to 26/10/2009
Author :Gauthier Ninon
Date : 10/10/2009
At Sun RIsing Flames, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches), Montreal, 2009.
At Toronto Art Fair 2009, the 10th edition of the famous Canadian art fair, Galerie Yves Laroches (Booth 238) shows Marcel Barbeeau recent works with a major historical works (1956) and a shimmering 1975 all over painting. Parallel to the major exhibition devoted to the Automatists’ historical works that is opening at the Varley Art Gallery on Friday October 23, the Montreal art dealer shows at his TAF 2009 booth four painting from the artist’s latest production, including a painting producted at the end of September 2009, with those of his colleagues Pierre Gauvreau and Fernand Leduc.
Marcel Barbeau has initiated a new non exclusive relation with Galerie Yves Laroche at the beginning of year 2009.
This is the first time that Barbeau, who have mainly live in Paris, in th last 15 years, participates in this major Toronto artistic event. This is also Barbeau first exhibiton in Toronto since 2003. For, while Barbeau has frequently exhibited in Toronto since his first two man show at Dorothy Cameron’s in year 1963, his new works has barely never been exhibited in Canada’s metropolis since he left for Paris in October 1996. This will also be Barbeau first show since his return to Canada in July 2008. Therefore, Galerie Yves Laroche and TAF 2009 offers a unique opprtunity to meet with this great artist and to discover his latest palette.
While visiting Toronto to attend the opening of the exhibition “The Automatists Revolution” at the Varley Art Gallery, Marcel Barbeau was also at the Toronto Art Fair opening and its AGO benefit evening. He then met with many art lovers at Galerie Yves Laroche booth 238 de la galerie Yves Laroche. As for any major event, Marcel Barbeau and his wife Ninon were wearing clothes by Yves-Jean Lacasse from Boutique Envers
Created in year 2000, Toronto Art Fair is one of the major art fair in North America. It takes place at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, located at 255, Front street West, downtown Toronto.
For information : http://arttoronto.ca/
A new art book about The Automatists.
06/10/2009
Author :Chiu, Kathleen
Date : 17/09/2009
Cover for the catalogue “The Automatists Revolution : Montréal 1941-1960” by Ray Ellenwood and Roald Nasgaard.
Nasgaard, Roald, and Ray Ellenwood. The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.
The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960 accompanies the first exhibition in English Canada ever devoted exclusively to the Automatistes’ works. An insightful essay by distinguished professor Ray Ellenwood sets the group’s extraordinary accomplishments in a variety of disciplines in the context of the social and political events of the time. And a lively text by eminent historian and curator Roald Nasgaard chronicles the emergence of the Automatiste form of painting, the experimentation of its practitioners and its legacy. Throughout, the authors quote not only the artists themselves but the many reviewers, critics, curators and art historians who have commented on the importance of their art.
Sumptuously illustrated with sixty full-colour paintings and twenty black-and-white archival images, this comprehensive introduction to the Automatistes and their work is a significant addition to any library. A fascinating mix of art, history and politics, The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960 adds an important chapter to the history of Canadian art.
To by this book : http://www.douglas-mcintyre.com/book/the-automatiste-revolution
Marcel Barbeau’s works on the Calgary art scene.
01/10/2009 to 26/12/2009
Geste 11, Encre sur papier chiffon,1957.
Until December 24 Virginia Christopher presents the exhibition “Art Treasure ot the past five decades” . This exhibition, which presents museum quality work by major names in Canadian art history, includes Three paintingson paper from the Fifties by Marcel Barbeau and an important painting of his latest parisian series, “Fragments stellaires” (1996).
TWO BARBEAU’S AT THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY THIS SUMMER
02/05/2009 to 06/09/2009
Author :Andrew Kear, Associate Curator of Canadian Historical Art
Date : 20/08/2009
In the usual order:”Ouvri” by Marcel Barbeau (1956), “Arbre du Tenarem”, by Marcelle Ferron (1962) et “Rétina 999” by Marcel Barbeau (1966).
Curated by Andrew Kear, associate curator of Canadian historical art, this exhibition presents a personal the view on Canadian art history and its evolution through a selection of paintings from a major private collection of Canadian art. The collection features major Canadian artists from different generations since Cornelius Krieghoff, including Group of Seven, the Automatists and independent artist such as Emely Carr and Norval Morriseau.
Its includes two paintings by Marcel Barbeau. “Ouvri”, a major “all over” painting from 1956, was first given by the artist to the his friend, the automatist poet Claude Grauvreau, who particularly appreciated the paintings of this series exhibited at Agnes Lefort in February 1957. It is a major work of this short series in which Barbeau achieves summit of his exploration of “all over” approach to painting, altogether with his research on ligh and movement. “Retina 999, the second Barbeau in this exhibition, belongs to Barbeau’s New York “Retina” series (1962-1966), which renews, through “op art”, his approach of “all over” painting, as well as his research on light and movement, two major themes in his art. It belongs to The Winnipeg Art Gallery to which it was donated in year 1973. This beautiful painting which has received to little exposure, was exhibited at The National Gallery of Canada in the exhibition “Canada The Sixties”, in 2005. It was reproduced back and forth on the inside covers of the catalogue.
In showing these two paintings nearly side by side, Andrew Kear, the curator of this exhibition gives a new light to Barbeau’s evolution from Automatism to Op art. He point out the continuity in Barbeau’s works besides the diversity of his research and his on-going interest for light and movement. He also show how Barbeau’s Op art keep in touch with expressionnism.