{"id":4201,"date":"2016-03-10T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/?page_id=4201"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:26:20","slug":"lactuelle-a-non-figurative-art-gallery-1955-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/lactuelle-a-non-figurative-art-gallery-1955-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>L\u2019Actuelle, a non-figurative art gallery (1955-1957)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Guido Molinari Foundation presented, starting March 10, 2016, an exhibition which told the story of the L\u2019Actuelle gallery. This little known episode in the development of the visual arts in Quebec got underway on May 28th, 1955, when Molinari and journalist Fernande Saint-Martin opened a gallery entirely devoted to non-figurative art, an art form often held in low esteem at the time by society generally, as well as by museums and galleries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">L\u2019Actuelle will remain open to the public until May 19th, 1957. Its impact on Montreal life was meteoric: some thirty exhibitions in 24 months, long\u00a0 opening hours and media coverage extensive to a degree unknown until then (and for good reason: the gallery held solo shows in turn by Borduas, Mousseau, Barbeau, Leduc, Letendre, Ulysse Comtois, McEwen, Toupin, Belzile, Jean-Paul J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Bellefleur, Gigu\u00e8re, Blair, Claude Tousignant and of course Molinari himself, alongside a few memorable group shows). Basically a sort of inventory of non-figurative art by a group of artists who exhibited at that time the work which is now considered to represent the golden age of their production.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Under the title\u00a0<em>L\u2019Actuelle, galerie d\u2019art non-figuratif (1955-1957)<\/em>,\u00a0we presented some of the most interesting works shown in that legendary venue, accompanied by an abundantly illustrated monograph highlighting specific, often unpublished, information and historical documents relating to what was a \u00a0very significant display space for contemporary art.\u00a0 For good measure, the Foundation staff also invited the participation of noted art historian Lise Lamarche.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the exhibition flyer below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/FGM_07_AN_LActuelle.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of FGM_07_AN_LActuelle.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f4b4f4c7-7b0b-4ec7-a429-0ae0559ef99f\" href=\"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/FGM_07_AN_LActuelle.pdf\">FGM_07_AN_LActuelle<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pictures from the exhibition : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"4201\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guido Molinari Foundation presented, starting March 10, 2016, an exhibition which told the story of the L\u2019Actuelle gallery. This little known episode in the development of the visual arts in Quebec got underway on May 28th, 1955, when Molinari and journalist Fernande Saint-Martin opened a gallery entirely devoted to non-figurative art, an art form &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"L\u2019Actuelle, a non-figurative art gallery (1955-1957)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/lactuelle-a-non-figurative-art-gallery-1955-1957\/#more-4201\" aria-label=\"Read more about L\u2019Actuelle, a non-figurative art gallery (1955-1957)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions","category-programming","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":{"programmation_plage_de_dates":"March 10 to June 12, 2016"},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":13,"label":"Exhibitions"},{"value":15,"label":"Past Exhibitions"},{"value":2,"label":"Programming"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/DSC4767_Photo-Guy-LHeureux-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"St\u00e9phane Bergeron","author_link":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":13,"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":60,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":13,"category_count":60,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Exhibitions","category_nicename":"exhibitions","category_parent":2},{"term_id":15,"name":"Past Exhibitions","slug":"past-exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":13,"count":54,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":15,"category_count":54,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Past Exhibitions","category_nicename":"past-exhibitions","category_parent":13},{"term_id":2,"name":"Programming","slug":"programming","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":141,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":141,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Programming","category_nicename":"programming","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}