May 2, 2011 – If you’re in the mood for a little spontaneous, free-form creativity in an outstanding historical building, then head over to the Montréal Bronze Museum Art Gallery, home to a permanent exhibition of renowned Montréal sculptor/painter Gaëtan Trottier. The collection is a compelling showcase of his inner reality, his subconscious being, and, above all, his extraordinary process.
Gestural, instinctive, and impulsive, his innermost feelings are expressed in passionate, uncontrolled bursts of inspiration; by liberating his subconscious, he escapes from order and rationality in a surreal frenzy of creation, where the very act is more important than the creation itself, and the creation is merely a transitional intermediary, or a concrete expression of the artist’s emotions. Baroque influences seep through his artistry that favours raw sensitivity and fantasy resulting in an empirical expression of his “irrational self”.
Within walking distance from the Champs-de-Mars metro station, at the corner of Bonsecours and Saint-Paul Streets, the Montréal Bronze Museum Art Gallery is located in La Maison Pierre du Calvet, an ancestral family mansion turned boutique-style hotel dating back to 1725. It is the oldest historical house that is open for public accommodations in Montréal, and also houses Trottier’s studio in addition to the gallery.
While created primarily to promote Gaëtan Trottier’s work, the Montréal Bronze Museum Art Gallery does periodically exhibit the work of other artists as well, bronze sculptors in particular. It is a unique location to experience abstract expressionism, to ponder contemporary art, or simply to spend an afternoon surrounded by the talent of an exceptional artist.
