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Louis Archambault was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1915 and died
in 2003. He received a B. A. from the University of Montreal in
1936 and a diploma in ceramics from the École des Beaux Arts,
Montreal in 1939. The recipient of three Canadian Government fellowships,
Archambault was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts
Medal in 1958.
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His work was exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennial,
1956; at the Brussels World Fair, 1958; and elsewhere. His completed
commissions include sculptures for the Pearson International Airport,
Malton, Ontario; the Ottawa airport; and Expo ’67,
Montreal. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Man and Woman, the sculpture displayed here illustrates the artist’s
desire to remove all non-essential elements, thereby leaving the meaning of each
piece self-evident.
The style of the two pieces demonstrates Archambault’s cool, formally refined
approach to sculpture which developed from his involvement with symbolic, archetypal
subjects.
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Louis Archambault oversees the installation of his sculpture, Man and Woman outside
the entrance to the Hepburn Block, 1968 (detail)
Government of Ontario Art Collection
Archives of Ontario
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