Claude Tousignant

Claude Tousignant
Accélérateur chromatique 32, 1969
Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
© Claude Tousignant, 2005
Photo: MACM

 

 
Tousignant’s work encompasses the range of modernist expression, and his pictorial practice is exemplary in the history of Canadian art. The exhibition will cover a fifty-year career, from his famous Monochrome orangé and his Transformateurs chromatiques, Gongs and Accélérateurs chromatiques series to his Diptyques circulaires, Monochromes and most recent works. It will afford an appreciation of the remarkable qualities of a painstakingly structured abstract art in search of the absolute. Over the years, Tousignant has developed an art associated not only with painting but also with watercolour, gouache and sculpture, and always with a rigour and an unwavering commitment to an ideal.