On March 19, Albright-Knox Art Gallery presents, The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, a landmark exhibition of works by Canada's first avant-garde art movement, the exhibition will remain n view through May 30, 2010
 
The exhibition is one of the most extensive to date by the Automatiste Group; it is recognized today as the most interdisciplinary and possibly the most important art movement in Canada, according to Maria Morreale, Director of Marketing at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
                                                     
"It's exciting to see these little-known artists in the U.S. for the first time," added Associate Curator Holly E. Hughes.
 
This opening at the Alright-Knox Art Gallery will represent the first time this work will be seen in a broad international environment. There will also be complementary works from the Albright-Knox's Permanent Collection of the contemporaneous United States avant-garde, the Abstract Expressionists, also on view.
 
"The Gallery is looking forward to presenting the work of these remarkable artists, whose breakthroughs were parallel to, but entirely independent of, the simultaneous Abstract Expressionism movement in New York," said Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
 
The Automatistes got together under the leadership of Paul-Émile Borduas in the early 1940s. The group was inspired by stream-of-consciousness writings of the time and explored their works in a subconscious way.
 
The exhibition was organized and recently on view at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ontario. The exhibition and publication are supported by the Varley-McKay Art Foundation and private donors.
 
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