Louis Archambault
was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1915 and died in 2003.
He received a B. A. from the University of Montreal
in 1936 and a diploma in ceramics from the École
des Beaux Arts, Montreal in 1939. The recipient of three
Canadian Government fellowships, Archambault
was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Allied Arts Medal in 1958.
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His work was exhibited internationally at the Venice
Biennial, 1956; at the Brussels World Fair,
1958; and elsewhere. His completed commissions include sculptures
for the Pearson International Airport, Malton,
Ontario; the Ottawa airport; and Expo
’67, Montreal. He was a member of the Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts.
Man and Woman, the sculpture displayed here
illustrates the artist’s desire to remove all non-essential
elements, thereby leaving the meaning of each piece self-evident.
The style of the two pieces demonstrates Archambault’s
cool, formally refined approach to sculpture which developed
from his involvement with symbolic, archetypal subjects.
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Louis Archambault oversees the installation of his sculpture,
Man and Woman outside the entrance to the Hepburn Block, 1968
(detail)
Government of Ontario Art Collection
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