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Riopelle: Canadian artist This is the first time that works by Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) are being shown in Russia. The exhibition. features 26 works that cover all the stages in the artist's career. The works on loan from the Montreal Museum go back to the late 1940s and end in the late 1980s - start of the 1990s. The works from the Power Corporation of Canada date from the 1950s-60s. Riopelle's legacy, which includes thousands of paintings, hundreds of engravings, many sculptures, collages, drawings in charcoal and works made of glazed lava, constitute a monument to the existential striving for freedom of creativity that took hold in Western society following the Second World War. The exhibition brings together works of extraordinary importance and provides a brief overview, enabling the visitor to trace the master's artistic career from his first "Automatiste" experiments that liberated him from the constraints of figurative art and allowed him to acquire his unique visual language up to his final works in which we see signs of the reality around him. In his work Riopelle constantly strived to reconcile two great ideas which lie at the foundation of modern art: the indisputable autonomy of artistic images and the unavoidable presence of Nature in them. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has published a catalogue in English, French and, for the first time in Russian, especially for the exhibition in the Hermitage. The curator of the exhibition for the State Hermitage is A.L. Rakova,
senior researcher in the Department of History of Western European Art;
the curator for the Canadian side is Stephane Aquin, Curator of Modern
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