AGQ-F0051
Fonds Bernard Mulaire. – Spring 1994-[28 December 1994]. – 1 cm of textual records.
Biographical sketch:
Bernard Mulaire hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and comes from a Franco-Manitoban family. He has lived in Montreal since 1984. He did his doctoral studies in art history at Université Laval and holds a master’s degree in art studies (art history) from UQAM, as well as a master’s degree in studio art from Temple University in Philadelphia.
As an art historian, Mulaire has collaborated on the dictionary Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker published in Germany, as well as with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec. He has contributed to the Dictionnaire biographique du Canada and the Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord (by David Karel). His research has led to the publication of monographs by Éditions Fides in Montreal (Olindo Gratton (1855-1941) : Religion et sculpture), Éditions du Blé (Caricatures; Chien; Collection ‘Miroir’) and Éditions Ink Inc (Tracer un espace en arts visuels) of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. Bernard Mulaire has written numerous articles for such publications as the Société historique de Saint-Boniface, Cahiers franco-canadiens de l’Ouest, and Ontario Craft, to name just a few. He has also written for Esse arts + opinion, a Montreal publication of which he was a member of the editorial committee for ten years. More recently, in 2020, Bernard Mulaire was a member of a collective that promoted the work of Manitoba author Rossel Vien (under the pseudonym Gilles Delaunière) as an integral part of Canada’s corpus of twentieth-century French-language gay literature. The creation of the Galerie du Centre culturel franco-manitobain in 1974 is one of his notable achievements. Mulaire has also curated various exhibitions in Manitoba and Quebec.
As an artist, Bernard Mulaire has presented solo and group exhibitions in Saint-Boniface, Toronto, Winnipeg, Guelph and Montréal. A travelling exhibition of his work was organized in Alberta by the Glenbow Art Institute and Museum. The Heritage Centre managed by the Société historique de Saint-Boniface holds Mulaire’s studio collection. In 2016, Édition du Blé published Caricatures, a collection of Bernard Mulaire’s political and social cartoons, notably in Manitoba’s French-language weeklies between 1964 and 1977. In 2018, the same publishing house brought out Flâneries et souvenances, a collection of intimate memories, past and recent, written by Mulaire between 2003 and 2017.
Scope and content:
The fonds documents Bernard Mulaire’s activities as an art historian, member of the contemporary art magazine Esse arts + opinion, and close associate of Alain Bouchard.
The fonds contains an article from the magazine Esse arts + opinion and notes read at Alain Bouchard’s funeral.
The fonds contains the following files:
- AGQ-F0051/D1. Bernard Mulaire. « L’objet-trésor dans l’expérience artistique et pédagogique… ». Article on Alain Bouchard [1954] and André Landry in Esse magazine.
- AGQ-F0051/D2. B[ernard] Mulaire. « À la mémoire d’Alain [Bouchard] 1954-1994 ».
Notes:
Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ on 12 February1995 by the fonds’ creator (acquisition 1995-06).
Language: The files are in French.
Associated material: Le Centre du patrimoine holds documents by Bernard Mulaire.
Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described: The AGQ-F0199 André Landry fonds contains documents relating to Alain Bouchard. The documents date from 1989 to 2021.
Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.
Bibliography:
Bernard Mulaire, À propos . (consulted on 14 April 2022).
Migneault, B. (8 September 2021). Rossel Vien – Analyse et réédition. Fugues.
Réseau art actuel. (26 October 2018). Galerie du Centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM).
Dernière modification : 2025-05-07