Jacques Hurtubise

Jacques Hurtubise (Montreal, February 28th, 1939 -) is a painter Québécois.

Biography

“What I have to say is on the fabric. ” The painter Jacques Hurtubise is a paradoxical man. Under apparent simplicity the complexity of an artist is hiding place who, for four decades, has managed to register on the fabric all the impulses, violences and subtleties of the vital forces, and this, while controlling and by organizing the “accidents” so that they express his interior visions. Immersed in art, it unceasingly pushes back the borders of its research and its expression, and its work, at the same time brutal and of an extreme sensitivity, dazing and envoûtante, reflects a personality and an approach of the life of a rare singularity.

Jacques Hurtubise will not await the diploma of the École of the fine arts of Montreal, where it is registered at the 17 years age, to expose. Since 1957, it takes part in the Living room of spring in Montreal. It finishes its studies in 1960 and, thanks to the purse max Beckmann, share food nine months in New York. It impregnates American painting, returns to Montreal and paints. Between the influence of the automatists and that of the American great names, it found its own expression. It presents its first important exposure in 1961, with Gallery XII of the Musée of the fine arts of Montreal. Then it will take part in many exposures, both in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada and the United States.

To the beginning of the Years 1970, Jacques Hurtubise presents his first great exposure accompanied by a catalog, initially with the Museum of Quebec then to the Museum of contemporary art of Montreal. The painter multiplies the experiments, uses the colors with audacity, carries out luminous tables with neons and incandescent lights. However, it returns quickly to painting and explores the black with the famous series of hardly enlightened tables blackout of keys of fluorescent colors. It will be later the series Zoozoom (1992) which pushes back the limits of the zoomorphic representation. The important exposures follow one another, of which that of the Museum of the fine arts of Montreal in 1998 supplied with a catalog, Jacques Hurtubise: four decades image by image.

Every morning, at dawn, Jacques Hurtubise takes again his brushes, finds the fabric and works. “It is necessary that the table is envoûtant. One always seeks the most explosive way to leave something, to make leave the life the table. ” Its works, he likes them or he burns them. Tireless, it starts again and is baited until it managed to express what it wants. All its life is inhabited of this table which he seeks, which haunts it. This obsession of the painter, this energy contained in the fabric undoubtedly explain the effect of envoûtement that its works produce.

Honors

Price Paul-Emile-Borduas (2000)

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