François Dallegret

François Dallegret (*1937) was one of the most dazzling figures of the French and Canadian art and architecture avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. After dropping out of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1963, he moved to Montréal after a two-year stopover, where he worked as an architect, interior designer and graphic artist. His work has been shown in the leading galleries in Paris, New York and Montréal and published in art, architecture, culture and other magazines. François Dallegret's graphic work is populated by machines that encompass all areas and forms of life: In addition to cars and rockets, there are interactive dictation machines, art, cooking or press working machines, as well as architectural machines - cast in plastic or concrete or provisionally constructed from scaffolding - leisure machines (discos and bars) and consumption machines (shopping malls).