Hello ! My name is Arthur Desmarteaux and I’m a young 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 gonna 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 artwork, 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 will make a large colorful mosaic for the Pointe-aux-Trembles library in Montreal. This public art project is made in collaboration with Allison Moore and will be permanently installed next year. For more information, please visit the projects section (my blog).
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| • | A third puppet show is currently in development : The Conquest of Sorrowland. The website of Egotrip Productions will be launched soon : www.egotripproductions.org |
| • | Egotrip Productions is now a member of Association of puppetters in Québec and UNIMA, Union Internationale de la Marionnette |
| • | I will participate in a group exhibtion in fall 2011 at AKA Gallery, Saskatoon (Canada). The exhibition co-curated through PAVED Arts' Artistic Director David Lariviere is called Psychedadia and aims to explore contemporary art with an eye towards elements of Psychedelia and Dada.
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| • | I will exhibit my collaborative artwork with Allison Moore at Glendon Gallery (York University) in Toronto during the Fall of 2011. |
| • | I'm now amember of ARPRIM, national association of almost 200 members dedicated to the promotion of Print Media |
| • | 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. |
Protesting cutbacks to the arts in BC!  |
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| • | Sketches are being done for my next fresco project which is temporary titled "The End of the Road". |
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