The Americas, Mexico’s archaeological sites and the murals of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros have made an indelible impression on him.

[2] Nordic Suite began a series that highlighted the interrelationship of print and block by displaying them together, which contributed to a rethinking of printmaking in Québec.

It consisted of 150 printing blocks assembled on the floor to cover a huge space, 50 metres in length, populated by 20,000 terracotta figurines handmade by the artist (he destroyed 19,000 of them later).

[4] Derouin meant to recall through creating it the crowds in Mexico’s large public squares as well as the migrations of peoples that have occurred throughout history.

[2] In 1998, a travelling retrospective of his work titled René Derouin: Frontiers, Frontières, Frontieras, 1995-1998, was organized by Patricia Ainslie for the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.