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Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montréal

Artiste : Jean-Paul Riopelle - 1974
Ensemble de sculptures en bronze formant une fontaine dans laquelle un cercle de feu et de brume apparaît à toutes les heures.
La place Jean-Paul-Riopelle

English: Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle
The ensemble of bronze sculptures contains a central fountain surrounded by a number of freestanding abstract animal figures inside and outside the fountain basin.
Jean-Paul Riopelle (7 October 1923 - 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec. He studied under Paul-Émile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. He was one of the signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1949 he moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist.
Les Automatistes were a group of Quebecois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. "Les Automatistes" were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism. Members included Marcel Barbeau, Roger Fauteux, Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Jean-Paul Mousseau, and Marcelle Ferron.
Square-Victoria is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the Quartier International district of downtown Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. It was inaugurated on February 6, 1967, four months after most of the initial network, and was briefly the terminus of the orange line until Bonaventure station was opened a week later.
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