Robert Duchesnay

Robert Duchesnay is a multimedia artist educated in Montreal and London, England. He is mostly known for his documentary artwork concentrating on Buckminster Fuller’s architectural legacy and was instrumental in saving two outstanding Fuller structures: the Montreal Expo 67 geodesic dome and the Dymaxion Dwelling Machine (circa 1946) in Wichita, Kansas.

Robert, is also known for his unique and compelling photo documentation, done in 1984, of the Joseph Beuys classroom/studio at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In addition to these documentary art works he also produced and exhibited a series of photographs in the 1990’s titled: Rituals of the Anti-Social referencing a theatre of the absurd, a humorous and often cynical look at society and it’s failed attempts at meaningful communication.

In 2013, the artist exhibits a photo series titled The Vienna Cult 48. Two years in the making, this series of images is closely based on the film noir classic ‘The Third Man’, it is nothing less than the reimagination and the reenactement of this iconic film noir, photographed on location in Vienna and at selected locations in Montreal that emulated as closely as possible the scenes of war time devastation.

Currently Duchesnay is working...

1979–82 Informal studies with Bill Brandt, with regular meetings reviewing my photography.
Film processing and dark room techniques at the Robert Horner Photo Studios, London (England).

1976–79 History of art, history and philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2021 -Mataré+Beuys+Immendorf, Die Neue Sammlung Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

2020 -Curiosidad Radical. En la Orbita de Buckminster Fuller (Radical Curiosity. In Buckminster Fuller’s Orbit), Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid

2017 -Montréal et le rêve géodésique / Montreal’s Geodesic Dreams, École de design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal

2013 -Le Culte de Vienne 48, Le Nouveau Cinéma du Parc, Montreal

2012 -Beuys-Fuller-1984, Galerie Plein Sud, Longueuil (Québec)

2005 -Rituals of the Antisocial, Gallery 44, Toronto
Rituals of the Antisocial, Gallery AXENEO 7, Gatineau (Québec)

2004 -Rituals of the Antisocial, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de- Grâce, Montreal

2003 -Rituals of the Antisocial, Galerie VU, Québec (Québec)

1998 -Buckminster Fuller: The Architecture and the Legacy, State University of New York, Department of Technology, Oswego, NY

1997 -Architectura, Ursus, Vehiculum, Galerie Vox, Montreal

1995–96 -Photographs with Architectural Elements, The Biosphere, B. Fuller dome, (Expo67) Montreal

1992 -Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion Dwelling Machine” (multimedia installation), Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

1989 -Illegal on site occupation, for two weeks,...