Louise Robert, No 78 367 1377 366
February 18 – March 14, 2012
Opening: Saturday, February 18, 2 – 6 p.m.
CHRISTOPHER CUTTS GALLERY
21 Morrow Avenue
Toronto, ON M6R 2H9
T: 416 532 5566
info@cuttsgallery.com
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Hours: Tues–Sat 11–6 p.m.
Painter Louise Robert, a visual poet who uses canvas as her page and whose paintings, in the words of the French philosopher, Anne Cauquelin, are books in themselves. For his part, art historian Laurier Lacroix has lately written: “Contemplating a work by Louise Robert involves agreeing to take a stroll down memory lane and put our recollections, by their nature flimsy and misleading, to use once again. Memories of her own works have been stacked one upon another for close to thirty years. They have caught her compositions in the process of making and unmaking what have always seemed to be the same—both direct and palpable, leisurely and hurried, ecstatic and serene—gestures. The path her hand takes gives rise to surfaces that point to the play of colour and what its saturation, depth and mobility bring to mind.”
Born in Montréal in 1941, Louise Robert has been painting and drawing for thirty years. Her works have been shown in both solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Québec and the rest of Canada, as well as in France. For many years Robert has taken part in a mutually fertile interchange with writers from both Québec and elsewhere, her frequent borrowings of their words and phrases finding a proper place in her works, while authors in turn ask her to illustrate a cover page or provide images to accompany their texts.