After Leonard Cohen, Jean Paul Riopelle will also have his own mural, this time by none other than Marc Séguin.
Posted at 4:31 p.m.
The City of Montreal will devote $200,000 to it. The inauguration, at 625 Milton Street, scheduled for this fall, will also kick off the celebrations for the 100e birthday of the painter.
“Wall art is an extraordinary way to democratize access to culture and beautify our city, and who better placed than Marc Séguin to introduce the people of Montreal to his work,” said Mayor Valérie Plante, per way of press release.
Remember that a competition was launched last year by the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation and the MU organization.
“We are all the more delighted at the idea that the world-renowned Quebec painter Marc Séguin, for whom Riopelle remains an inexhaustible source of inspiration, has been selected to create this fresco which will mark the landscape for generations to come. of the artist’s native metropolis, added the Executive Director of the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation, Manon Gauthier. What an extraordinary way, when Marc Séguin will pay homage to his idol in his own way, to kick off Riopelle’s centennial celebrations, which will begin this fall! »