The Automatiste Revolution goes West

22/06/2012 to 15/09/2013

Author :Etchevery, Robert
Date : pas de date
Marcel Barbeau, “Rosier feuilles”, oil on board, 1946. A painting in the exhibition “The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960”.

The exhibition ” The Automatiste Revolution Montreal on 1941-1960 ” returns for more than year in the Canadian West. Designed and coordinated by renowned English-Canadian art historian Roald Nasgaard, in association with The Varley Art Gallery, the exhibition as been presented at first in this public gallery of Unionville, in suburb of Toronto in fall 2009 and in th winter 2010. Then, it was presented in the spring en summer program of the Albright Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo in 2010. On this occasion professor Nasgaard had coupled the exhibition at a presentationof American and European works of the rich collection of the museum. Contemporary and neighbor of the works automatistes, this new corpus showed with obvious fact the precocity and the originality of the movement Automatiste. The exhibition had known an exceptional success in Canada as in the United States where it had been greeted as one of the big exhibitions of art of year 2010.

The Automatiste Revolution will open first at the Alberta Art Gallery on June 22 and will continue until October 14, 2012. Then it will stop at Prairie Art Gallery, from 15 February to 12 May 2013. Finally, this new presentation of the exhibition will close its circuit Mendel Art Gallery who will present from 14 June to 15 September 2013.