Hello ! My name is Arthur Desmarteaux and I’m a visual artist from Montréal, Canada. On this website you will be able to see some reproductions of the works I did in the past few years. If you have any questions or suggestions, I invite you to write an e-mail to me and it’s going to be a pleasure to answer you. You can also leave messages in the guestbook.
For those of you who are wondering why I use a pseudonym, I would answer that it is because I want to stay anonymus in front of my creations of good taste (which are frightening me sometimes) and also because it brings a mysterious aura around the artist and his work.
You can consider me as a pure neo-schtroumphist. For now I am the only member of that new art current that is the neo-schtrouphism, but you have to know that newcomers are always warmly welcomed in this current that is privileging the collective work. To know more about the processes that leads to my paintings, you can read my artist statement..
If you want to buy my artworks, you can send me a message at this
email : desmarteaux(a)arthuro.ca
Enjoy your visit ! Thank you for your interest,
The honorable Arthuro Durabot
Signal harvester
Arthur Durabot
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| • |  I am showing with Allison Moore at Open Studio Gallery in Toronto. January 12 – February 18, 2012. There is a critic of this show in the Globe & Mail of January 21st |
| • | I made a large colorful mosaic for the Pointe-aux-Trembles library in Montreal. This public art project was made in collaboration with Allison Moore and is now permanently installed. For more information, visit the projects section (my blog) or www.legrandrassemblement.com
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| • |  Duo exhibition with Allison Moore at SNAP Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta from May 24th to June 30th 2012. |
| • | A third puppet show is currently in development : The Conquest of Sorrowland. The website of Egotrip Productions will be launched eventually : www.egotripproductions.org |
| • | Egotrip Productions is now a member of Association of puppetters in Québec and UNIMA, Union Internationale de la Marionnette |
| • | I will eventually exhibit my collaborative artwork with Allison Moore at Glendon Gallery (York University) in Toronto. |
| • |  I will soon go to Imago Printmaking Studio in Moncton NB for a two week residency project with Allison Moore. This project is part of an exchange between Graff Studio and Imago. (March 2012) |
| • |  I will participate in a group show with Allison Moore at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Laurentians in Québec in April 2012. The show is called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and is about personal mythologies in visual arts. |
| • | I'm a member of ARPRIM, artist run center dedicated to the promotion of Print Media. I will be performing a shadow puppet play in Arprim's space during the next Nuit Blanche event in Montreal (February 25th 2012 at 8, 10 and midnight) |
| • | You can see pictures of the puppets I did for La vengeance de Popol, a play which was performed during the 16th Fringe Fest in Montreal. Just click here :
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| • | Cartoon Book Project with Marc Boutin |
| • | Fatima, the new comic book in French by Egotrip Productions, was released at Montreal's Expozine last November. It will be available in selected Montreal bookstores. |
| • | Sketches are being done for my next fresco project which is temporary titled "The End of the Road". |
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