Robbert Fortin
Interventions
January 4–27, 1991

Robbert Fortin’s last show in Windsor and Canada before leaving for France consists of recent works of mixed-media: paintings, collages, prints and dry-point collage. Robbert’s creative approach is driven by primitive instinct where he proceeds through difficulties when they happen, while being very much alert during the process.

“In the very first stage of each of my paintings, I multiply in a very rapid flow the collages of images, objects and materials which precisely find themselves in a position of “material de base”.What interests me in these works are the processes of redoubling and intervention of images, materials and objects and their manifestation as signs in the paintings. These images, objects and materials reveal collages of information and intervention concerning my life, our cultures and current or previous environments that once assembled give the viewer the sense of dynamic creative action– of moments extracted by the artist from the mundane world. Everything has to take its own place. My work consists in staying alert to each step of the immediate “doing” in developing a personal language”