I'm linking up at Monday Mural
August 2025 - Montreal QC
A small collection (1) of murals we found last weekend in Montreal.
This is the oldest mural in Montreal, from 1972 by artists Jacques Sabourin and Claude Dagenais. Located at the corner of Jeanne-Mance Street and President-Kennedy Avenue.
Izabelle Duguay is a visual artist based in Montreal. She has always been interested in the scale of art, the power of colors and the connection between natural and urban forms. Her studio work, as well as her murals, bring together the abstract with à minimalism and the geometric with the organic in a constant exploration of textures and shapes. Their primary purpose is to energize or soothe the viewer and to harmonize with the surrounding architecture.
Maria Qamar (b. 1991, Karachi, Pakistan) is a first-generation Canadian from a traditional South Asian family. She moved to Canada at the age of nine in 2001 and was forced to endure bullying and racism as a young girl in a post 9/11 Toronto.
Qamar found her artistic voice through Instagram, where her illustrations resonated with the Desi community, particularly the second generation. Art became a means for her to handle realities of being brown and South Asian in North America in the early 21st century. Her work is collected by Mindy Kaling and was featured on The Mindy Project. Qamar is also is the author of “Trust No Aunty”, published in 2017. Her artwork has been shown in the AGO in Toronto, Mumbai Comicon, and the Oxo Tower Wharf in London, England. She has been featured on NPR, CBC, HarpersBAZAAR.com, and in The Toronto Star, FLARE Magazine, Bon Appetit and several other publications.
Painted in 2013, it has faded from its former glory.
Titled “Body Mind and Spirit in an Era of Change,” it was painted by street and contemporary artist Gola Hundun.
Göla: The two characters are actually two sides of one face. They represent the condition of the humanity today. The blue gorilla on the left side (like the left side of the brain) represents the instinct, our connection with our feelings and our animal nature. He is looking at the egg/planet heart in his hands for a long time – and now he perceives that a new beginning is coming, a new kind of relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere is at the door.
The yellow anthropomorphic characters on the right (right side of the brain) represents rationality; a sick rationality that life that humans have been operating with for too long, as the dominator of the biosphere.
The character has a head full of worms (but “colorful worms”, good ones) and factories, pollution, from the last centuries. He is opening his belly to allow his desire for change, to free his spirit. This is the third element of this portrait of humanity. The spirit is represented as a mimetic three, in which the leaves are stylized monarch butterflies that fly into the future.
MICHEL RABAGLIATI is a graphic designer by profession. Admirer of Franquin, he published comic strips in various magazines. In 1998, he created the character of Paul. Success is instantaneous. Since then, ten albums of Paul’s adventures have been published. Very autobiographical, the character of Paul is anchored in Montreal and Quebec life and each Quebecer finds there a brother, a father, a friend or an alter ego. In 2010, he won the public prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival with his sixth album, Paul à Québec.
This reminds me of the staircases of Montreal.
Artist Klone Yourself
...wow, Montreal is a mural destination!
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