Claude Tousignant
Born in Montreal (Québec), Canada, in 1932
Although Claude Tousignant shares some of the concerns expressed by the first Plasticiens, namely “the unremitting purification of plastic elements and their order,” [our translation] he has nevertheless proposed, since 1956, a more radical vision of pictorial structure as it relates to form and colour. He has produced hard-edge paintings using horizontal or vertical grids that unequivocally suppress any associations to the figurative or to landscape, as well as any suggestion of three-dimensional space. In 1963, Tousignant introduced the circular form into his practice, making it one of the great subjects of his subsequent series.
