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Edmund Alleyn

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Edmund Alleyn
Born into an Anglo-Irish community in Quebec City (Canada), Edmund Alleyn studied with Jean-Paul Lemieux and Jean Dallaire at the École des beaux-arts de Québec. In 1955, he won the Grand Prix at the Concours Artistique de la Province de Québec and a bursary from the Royal Society. In 1958, he was part of the Canadian delegation (along with Paul-Émile Borduas, Harold Town, Jean Paul Riopelle and Léon Bellefleur) to the Guggenheim International Award in New York. In 1959, he won the bronze medal at the Sao Paulo Biennale and was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale. The first decade of his career (1952-1962) was characterized by stylized figuration, expressed in tachist or gestural works imbued with elegance and fluidity. From 1955 to 1970, he lived in France, where the non-figurative painting of his early years gave way to figuration. Initially inspired by the art of the West Coast Amerindians with his "Indian Suite" works, the painter obliqued to imagery derived from the world of technology and electronics. This approach culminated in "L'introscaphe", an original polysensory sculpture-habitacle broadcasting audiovisual content drawn from international current affairs. In 1969, the work was installed for over a month at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Returning to Quebec in the early 1970s, Alleyn was struck by the changes the years had wrought on his country. Considerations relating to the socio-political future of the territory resonated in his artistic creations. He returned to painting, producing a series of figures painted on Plexiglas, standing in front of large landscape paintings. This series, entitled "Une belle fin de journée", was exhibited at the Musée du Québec, then at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1974. At the same time, he obtained a professorship in the visual arts department of the University of Ottawa, where he taught for over 15 years. The 1980s were marked by the production of highly personal works, including the important "Indigo" series, featuring a variety of oil on canvas and gouache paintings in shades of blue and/or red. This series has been exhibited at Galerie Lavalin, Montreal, and at 49e Parallèle - Centre d'art contemporain canadien, New York. In 1996 and 1997, the Musée du Québec and the Musée d'Art de Joliette presented the retrospective exhibition "Les horizons d'attentes 1955-1995". At the Musée de Sherbrooke in 2004, he presented his final series, "Les Éphémérides", comprising 12 large-format paintings and washes. The artist died in Montreal (Canada) in 2004.
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    L'Introscaphe
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    • 1970
    My Father's Studio (2008)
    My Father's Studio
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    • 2008

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