Merola, Mario (1931- )

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Merola, Mario (1931- )

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        Mario Merola was born in Montréal in 1931 and attended the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946-1952, where he studied decoration with painter Maurice Raymond (1912-2006), Stanley Cosgrove, (1911- 2002) Umberto Bruni. (1914-2021) He served as director of the Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec In 1952 he went to France to take a set design course at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He then attended the Place-des-arts encounter work shop after which he was hired as a costume designer at Radio-Canada. Starting in 1957, Merola produced numerous murals integrated with architecture, including one in Canadian pavilion at the Brussels Work Fair and those in Sherbrooke and Charlevoix Metro stations.

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            MacDonald, Colin S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists. 1st ed., Canadian Paperbacks Pub, 1967. p. 1192-1193
            Horizons, Mario Merola -https://artpublicmontreal.ca/artiste/merola-mario/

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