John Heward: Words and Silence

A vibrant testimonial to artist John Heward, born in Montreal in 1934 and deceased on 6 November 2018. It was on 8 December 2017 that painter Stéphane La Rue first met Heward in his studio on Murray Street in Montreal, and they began a dialogue around the words ​“painting,” ​“music,” ​“abstraction,” ​“gesture,” and ​“life.” In the uncluttered space of his studio, the words slowly accumulated. More than 100 of Heward’s works are conserved at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.