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This exhibition, was
conceived by Gregg Simpson, and organized in conjunction with
Alvin
Balkind, of the
University of British Columbia's Fine Arts Gallery. The theme of the exhibition was the link between alchemy
and surrealism, a project for which Simpson receievd a Canada Council Grant in 1971. Armed with this plus a letter
of introduction to the Paris surrealists from William Rubin of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Simpson went
to Paris and began to arrange what would become the first exhibition of art to tour Europe from Canada's west coast.
University of British Columbia's Fine Arts Gallery. The theme of the exhibition was the link between alchemy
and surrealism, a project for which Simpson receievd a Canada Council Grant in 1971. Armed with this plus a letter
of introduction to the Paris surrealists from William Rubin of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Simpson went
to Paris and began to arrange what would become the first exhibition of art to tour Europe from Canada's west coast.
the Centre Culutrel Canadien in Paris, March 15-April 14 with subsequent stops in St. Brieuc (Brittany), Canada House
(London, UK), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium and then returned in 1974 with showings at McMaster University
Gallery and the McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario. Interest had also been expressed by the following:
The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh; I.C.A., London; The Musee Dynamique;Dakar, Senegal and the Kunstmusum
of Goethberg, Sweden,
