André Clouâtre

André Clouâtre, born in 1950, spent his youth on the family farm in Sabrevois, Haut-Richelieu, Quebec. His mother, a teacher and an artist, initiated him to painting. He first studied Architecture but completed his university studies in Computer science (Ph.D., McGill University). He had a multifaceted is university career from 1973 until 2010.

André has painted assiduously since the year 2000. From 2007 to 2020, he has participated in numerous semester-long group painting sessions at the Atelier du Geste in Montreal. He has exhibited his work many times. In the last years, he has developed two perspectives. He does enumeration painting, which is reasoned abstraction, where the infinity of objects in the universe is represented through combinatorial scenarios. He also focuses on more figurative painting resulting from his questioning the nature of things ( humane and other), which he illustrates in their relationships to one and others. He calls this, ontological painting .

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