Lafrance
Jean-Pierre
1943 -
Canadian Master, Jean-Pierre Lafrance was born in Montreal in 1943. At the age of sixteen, he began his studies in drawing and painting at the International School of Fine Arts. He began to relentlessly pursue his passion for the arts at Studio Salette in Montreal. He then worked in Jordi Bonet’s studio where he developed his sculpting skills, as well as at Atelier de l’Île in Val-David, Quebec, where he mastered numerous lithographic and serigraphic techniques.
Lafrance’s undeniably passionate spirit is reflected in his expressive bold strokes, vivid use of colour, and spontaneity. For the artist, abstraction becomes the means of expressing the accumulation of memory and emotion. He plays with different applications and techniques in order to reunite the viewer’s sensibilities. Abstraction was not a stylistic goal chosen by Lafrance, but rather the result of natural artistic evolution over the course of many years.
For mor than fifty years now, Lafrance has helped define a new wave of abstract art in Canada. This celebrated artist has gained international recognition for his bold, gestural style, and continues to innovate with each new body of work.
While pushing the boundaries of abstraction over the course of his long and fruitful career, Lafrance has created a visual language of immeasurable structures, simultaneously real and unreal, orderly and chaotic, matter and liquid. Lafrance does all of this without the need to create a distinctive narrative.
“I never decide in advance what my paintings will look like. I work spontaneously and the result is therefore the consequence of my state of mind at the time. »
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