The Center international d’art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC) launched a new sheet on Thursday, L’Atelier de Fernand Leduc, as part of its Cartographie des Automatistes project.
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“Through the places where they studied, worked and exhibited, the CIAC invites you to get to know the artists of the Montreal Automatists group between 1939 and 1955. Their contribution is immense in the fields of visual arts, dance, literature, theatre, design and psychoanalysis in Quebec and Canada,” underlines the founder of the CIAC, Claude Gosselin.
In 1944, Fernand Leduc had set up his studio in a room in a house (now gone) at the corner of Sherbrooke and Jeanne-Mance streets, near the École des beaux-arts, where his friend Charles Daudelin also lived. Leduc’s studio was a meeting place for several Montreal avant-garde artists such as Claude and Pierre Gauvreau, Jeanne Renaud, Françoise Sullivan, as well as the painters Jean-Paul Mousseau and Claude Vermette.