Les industries perdues was an art group founded by Richard Purdy and François Hébert in 1991 and active until 2001, specializing in monumental works of public art. Their first collaboration was on The Inversion of the World for the École nationale du cirque building (now Cirque Éloize).
Richard Purdy, born in Ottawa in 1953, has been working as an artist since 1975. Since then, he has participated in over 140 solo and group exhibitions, working in a wide variety of media including installations, texts, performance, and video art. He teaches art at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
François Hébert, a Quebec artist, teaches at UQAM. No biographical information as yet. If you have some, please email me!
Works:
| In the metro: | |
| To rise, we must push against the ground onto which we have fallen (Purdy, Hébert, Alain Cadieux) | McGill station |
| Associated with the metro: | |
| Tango de Montréal (Purdy, Hébert, D. Marcotte) | Outside Mont-Royal station |
Other works: |
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| In Montreal: | |
| Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy... (Purdy) | Collège Ahuntsic, Ahuntsic/Cartierville |
| Deus ex machina (Purdy) | Station C, Ville-Marie |
| Expérience de voyage (Purdy, Éric Fleury, Richard Lemire) | Télé-Québec, Ville-Marie |
| Horizon vertical (Purdy, Hébert) | Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ville-Marie |
| Intermezzo (Purdy, Hébert) | Centre Pierre-Péladeau, UQAM |
| The Inversion of the World (Purdy, Hébert, Jean Lebel) | Cirque Éloize, Ville-Marie |
| Le jardin des Hespérides (Purdy, Hébert, Richard Lemire) | Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal |
| Progeria Longaevus (Purdy) | Centre hospitalier de Lachine, Lachine |
Elsewhere in Quebec: |
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| L'archéologie d'adolescence (Purdy) | École secondaire du Versant, Gatineau |
| De opificio mundi (Purdy) | École secondaire Rive-Nord, Bois-des-Filion (Laurentides) |
| L'horizon de l'avenir (Purdy) | École professionnelle de Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe |
| The Music of the Spheres (Purdy) | Centre hospitalier Saint-Eustache, Saint-Eustache (Laurentides) |
| Le point de vue envolé (Purdy, Hébert) | École secondaire L'Amitié, L'Assomption (Lanaudière) |
| La vivrière (Purdy, Hébert, Carmèle Arnoldin) | Place de la FAO, Quebec City |