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Maurice Lemieux fut une figure marquante de l'histoire de l'art public au Québec. Ayant travaillé comme arpenteur et topographe pour Hydro-Québec dans le Nord du Québec et à Montréal, il devint artiste autodidacte aux années 1940, se lançant en sculpture en bois, stéatite et céramique. Il enseigna l'art au Séminaire de Valleyfield.

Il se tourna au sculpture en métal avant les années 1960. En 1961 son immense sculpture murale au séminaire de Saint-Jean-d'Iberville (aujourd'hui cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) saisit les manchettes. Ce fut l'une des premières instances significatives de l'intégration de l'art au Québec, et reste la sculpture murale la plus massive du Canada. Ensuite, il quitta le Québec en 1964; rendu en Californie, il développa un matériau innovateur, la mousse-aluminium, pour ses sculptures.

Son oeuvre Enterspace fut l'une des premières sculptures permanentes commandées par un entrepreneur immobilier privé.
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Maurice Lemieux was a highly significant figure in the history of public art in Quebec. Having worked as a surveyor and topographer for Hydro-Québec in the north of Quebec and in Montreal, he took up art in the 1940s, teaching himself sculpture in wood, soapstone, and ceramic. He taught art for the Seminaire de Valleyfield.

By the 1960s he had continued to metal sculpture. In 1961 he made headlines with his immense mural sculpture for the seminary of Saint-Jean-d'Iberville (now the cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), one of the first significant works integrated with architecture in Quebec, and still the largest mural sculpture in Canada. He then moved to California in 1964, where he developed an innovative material, aluminum foam, for his sculptures.

His work Enterspace was one of the first permanent sculptures to be commissioned for a building by a private developer.

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Title: Enterspace Artist: Claude Lemieux Media (materials) used: Acier inoxydable, granit - Stainless Steel, granite Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Intersection du boulevard Maisonneuve et de la rue Peel - Intersection Maisonneuve and Peel Date of creation or placement: 1981

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