A self-taught expressionist painter who exhibited her works in important institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, the Quebec House Gallery in New York or the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, Louise Robert died on the night of 6 to November 7 at the Sacré-Coeur hospital in Montreal, at the age of 80.
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In more than forty years of career, the Montreal artist has obtained numerous grants from Quebec and Canada, while many of her works mixing words and colors can be found today in private and corporate collections, as well as in several institutions such as the National Gallery of Canada, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint- Paul and the Joliette Art Museum. It is incidentally in the Lanaudois museum that the retrospective At the end of the words was dedicated to him in 2003, while the Maison des arts de Laval organized in 2007 the major exhibition entitled gaze speed.
On the occasion of his last exhibition at the Galerie Simon Blais, The time now, in the spring of 2022, the artist presented his work as follows: “Recent paintings and drawings burst onto the walls. You can read the words, the sentences, if you want. Or think it’s about colors, matter. Reread them with “the eyes of the heart”. Don’t see them anymore. Like one wants. But let it be said: “the time, now”. Like another possible season, lively, almost crazy. Where “the smell of time” takes its time. That of life, nothing else. »
PHOTO GUY L’HEUREUX, PROVIDED BY GALERIE SIMON BLAIS
Some of the works of Louise Robert exhibited at the Galerie Simon Blais.
Louise Robert is survived by Lise, her spouse of the past 44 years, as well as many friends, relatives, artists, studio neighbours, collectors and art lovers.