{"title":"Robert Marchessault | Les Murs Vivant | Advance Preview","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eSeptember 10 - October 5, 2026\u003cbr\u003eBau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin\u003cbr\u003e1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eOpening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2 - 4 PM | Artist in Attendance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis September, Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin presents Les Murs Vivant, a new series by Robert Marchessault inspired by the vertical gardens he encountered in Aix-en-Provence. Building on his longstanding paintings of trees and foliage, Marchessault distills the landscape to its essential forms, eliminating trunks and branches to focus on the movement, rhythm, and energy of dense fields of greenery. Reflecting his own approach to gardening, these paintings explore the pleasure of arranging and observing the natural world, inviting the viewer’s eye to move through each composition as one might through a garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eAll artworks are now available for acquisition. To secure a piece, please contact us at 416-977-0600 or toronto@bau-xi.com. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mur-vivant-ii-29989","title":"Mur Vivant II","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Marchessault’s \u003cem\u003eMur Vivants\u003c\/em\u003e (“Living Walls”) series marks a renewed direction in his studio practice, translating the vitality of botanical environments into immersive painted form. Inspired by a three-week stay in France, where he encountered the pioneering vertical gardens of botanist Patrick Blanc, Marchessault developed a response that is not imitative but interpretive-seeking to evoke the same emotional resonance through paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarchessault invents intricate foliage patterns and textures that fill the canvas edge to edge. The compositions are dense and enveloping, drawing the viewer into a close, almost tactile encounter with layered greenery. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eBuilding on trial and error I began establishing a method that allowed me to compose my images, creating textures, movement and colours that reflected what I felt without being too photographic. The paintings needed to be about themselves not illustrations of Blanc's installations. 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These forms bend, dissolve, and reassemble across the canvas, evoking both resilience and fragility while inviting a deeper awareness of our relationship to nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarchessault’s surfaces achieve a luminous softness and spatial depth that rewards prolonged viewing. Each painting unfolds slowly, revealing a poetic balance between structure and atmosphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWidely exhibited and collected across North America, Robert Marchessault’s work represents a timeless and sophisticated acquisition for collectors seeking contemporary landscape painting with enduring emotional resonance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Marchessault | Les Murs Vivant | Advance Preview","offers":[{"title":"40 X 40 in.","offer_id":48380844179714,"sku":"30000","price":10440.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/30000.jpg?v=1787685134"},{"product_id":"mur-vivant-x-29997","title":"Mur Vivant X","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Marchessault’s \u003cem\u003eMur Vivants\u003c\/em\u003e (“Living Walls”) series marks a renewed direction in his studio practice, translating the vitality of botanical environments into immersive painted form. 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Each painting unfolds slowly, revealing a poetic balance between structure and atmosphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWidely exhibited and collected across North America, Robert Marchessault’s work represents a timeless and sophisticated acquisition for collectors seeking contemporary landscape painting with enduring emotional resonance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Marchessault | Les Murs Vivant | Advance Preview","offers":[{"title":"40 X 40 in.","offer_id":48380844212482,"sku":"29997","price":10440.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/29997.jpg?v=1787685135"},{"product_id":"mur-vivant-xii-29990","title":"Mur Vivant XII","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Marchessault’s \u003cem\u003eMur Vivants\u003c\/em\u003e (“Living Walls”) series marks a renewed direction in his studio practice, translating the vitality of botanical environments into immersive painted form. 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