Project initiator : Claude Gosselin, C. M. General and Artistic Director
Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC MTL)
514 288 0811 • claude.gosselin@ciac.ca • www.ciac.ca

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INTRODUCTION

It is through the places where they studied, worked, and exhibited that we invite you to meet the artists of the Automatists group in Montreal between 1939 and 1955.

 

Their contribution is immense in the fields of visual arts, dance, literature, theater, design and psychoanalysis in Quebec and Canada.

 

We invite you to discover no less than 50 locations to visit where these artists have been active privately and publicly.

Artists in alphabetical order

Magdeleine ARBOUR Fernand LEDUC
Marcel BARBEAU Françoise LESPÉRANCE
Paul-Émile BORDUAS Jean-Paul MOUSSEAU
Bruno CORMIER Maurice PERRON
Marcelle FERRON Louise RENAUD
Claude GAUVREAU Thérèse RENAUD
Pierre GAUVREAU Jean Paul RIOPELLE
Muriel GUILBAULT Françoise RIOPELLE
Françoise SULLIVAN

This project was realized thanks to the financial support of Québec government and the city of Montreal as part of l’Entente de développement culturel de Montréal.

Our sincere thanks go :

  • to private and corporate donors who support our project. Click here to consult the list of donors;

 

  • to the CIAC MTL researchers, Vincent Godin-Filion, Auky Gonzales Gysin et Dominique Robb for their work as thorough investigators ;
  • to the governments of Canada and Quebec for their support to this project through their wage subsidy programs.

 

  • to the city of Montréal

 

  • to all the authors for their countless research on the Automatists. Their research enabled us to produce texts and create a map of the locations where these artists studied, worked and exhibited. We are very grateful to them. Consult the Bibliography here.

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