Art Brokerage: Artist Gabriel Bonmati arrived in Quebec in 1969, and has also lived in Africa and Europe, whose stories and cultures have enriched him. His paintings seem modern, and artfully combine the past and the present. The artist is a man of many cultures, a painter without boundaries; in his universe, the imagination draws on elements borrowed through-out time and history. Each Bonmati painting has a title, the finishing touch. The viewer must search for the prose fragments at the back of a fold, or in the middle of fabrics, but they are always present. The painter does not borrow the short phrases, he invents them. No attempt is made to transmit a message. Instead, the painter invokes serenity. Bonmati is a modern surrealist,