"The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960"

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"Colloque Exhuberant"

Pierre Gavreau, "Colloque Exhuberant," 1944, oil on masonite.

The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960 is the first comprehensive exhibition about Canada’s foremost avant-garde movement to be shown in Saskatchewan. Under the leadership of Québécois painter Paul-Émile Borduas, the Automatistes advocated for spontaneous creativity and individual liberty. The artists’ collective included painters, dancers, playwrights and poets, whose anti-establishment manifesto, Refus global, would become a seminal artistic and social document in modern Quebec.