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abstract/organic hybrids that included the filmmaker David Cronenberg. Walter Redinger has shown in Paris at the Galerie de France (19690 [[ (1969) ]] and represented Canada at the 36th Venice Biennale (1972). The artist continues to live and work in West Lorne.

Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in 1922 in Brest, France. He studied agronomy and worked in Martinique. In the early 1950s Robbe-Grillet pioneered the new novel, producing such monuments of 20th century French literature as The Erasers (1953), Jealousy (1957), In the Labyrinth (1959), The House of Assignation (1965) and Project for a Revolution in New York (1970, 1972). In the 1960s and 1970s Robbe-Grillet became equally well known as a filmmaker, producing Last Year at Marianbad in 1961 (with Alain Resnais) and other films including Trans-Europ-Express (1966), Eden and After (1970), Progressive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) and The Beautiful Captive (1983). Alain Robbe-Grillet has taught at New York University and the university of North Carolina, among other institutions and, in 2004, was elected to the Academie Francaise [[Française]]. Alain Robbe-Grillet lives outside of Paris.

Catherine Robbe-Grillet was born in Paris 1930. She is an author, actor (in Robbe-Grillet's films and those of others) and photographer. The film stills in the current show were taken by her. L'Image (1956), written [[by]] Catherine Robbe-Grillet under the pseudonym Jean de Berg, is one of the great erotic novels. More recently, she has written a journal of the early years of her marriage to Robbe-Grillet. In 2006 Catherine Robbe-Grillet acted in Une Belle Infante Blonde, a new play by Dennis Cooper. She lives with Alain outside of Paris.

Peter Stampfli was born in 1937 in Deisswil, Switzerland. The artist grew up in Bern, but moved to Paris in 1960. In the early 1960s Stampfli painted isolated objects and car and body parts, but quickly distilled his image vocabulary to the tread patterns of automobile tires. Stampfli has produced a kind of pop version of Stella's black paintings