Renowned Alberta artist Alex Janvier dies at 89

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By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted July 10, 2024 2:25 pm

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'Who is Alex Janvier, nan creator down nan tile mosaic artwork astatine Rogers Place?'

2:49 Who is Alex Janvier, nan creator down nan tile mosaic artwork astatine Rogers Place?

WATCH ABOVE: (September 2016): A mosaic tile creation portion is now successful spot successful nan level of Ford Hall wrong Rogers Place. The portion was designed by Alberta creator Alex Janvier, but who is he? Janvier is portion of what's known arsenic nan Indian Group of Seven artists who person achieved world recognition. Despite nan accolades, nan 81-year-old lives a beautiful humble life. Vinesh Pratap met pinch him astatine his assemblage connected nan Cold Lake First Nation – Sep 8, 2016

Renowned creator Alex Janvier has died astatine nan property of 89.

Officials astatine nan Assembly of First Nations yearly wide gathering announced his decease and held a infinitesimal of silence.

Janvier, who was from Cold Lake First Nations successful Alberta, is considered 1 of Canada’s top painters.

Janvier was nan creator down nan Iron Foot Place tile mosaic in Ford Hall astatine Edmonton’s Rogers Place downtown. The 3,500-pound mosaic is made up of astir 1 cardinal byzantine solid smalti tiles.

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Janvier’s activity is wide collected and hangs successful backstage homes and nationalist galleries crossed nan state and astir nan world.

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He was a groundbreaking Indigenous creator and belonged to nan alleged Indian Group of Seven.

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Janvier’s activity is known for agleam colours and flowing lines, which mixed nan influences of Denesuline beadwork and absurd modernists specified arsenic Vassily Kandinsky.

'Tile mosaic unveiled astatine Rogers Place'