Following a sensational launch at the Tate Modern in London, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is proud to announce with great fanfare the North American premiere in Québec City of the Alberto Giacometti exhibition. From February 8 to May 13, 2018, visitors can discover this major retrospective presented by Desjardins in the Pierre […]
The MURAL International Public Art Festival starts on June 4th on the Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal. Media representatives and members of the public are invited to enjoy the numerous activities until June 14th. “With free access again this year to the pedestrian sites, MURAL festivities are spread over a total of eleven days rather than […]
On Saturday, April 25th, Mira Godard Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of new work by CHRISTOPHER PRATT. CHRISTOPHER PRATT was born in 1935 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, from 1957-1959, and in 1961 he received a B.A. in Fine Art from Mount Allison University, Sackville, New […]
OTTAWA, June 11, 2014 /CNW/ – From now until September 14, nearly 100 striking works of art by Gustave Doré—one of the most extraordinary artists of the 19th century—are being showcased at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) for the North American exclusive exhibition Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883): Master of Imagination. These spectacular and […]
TORONTO, March 19, 2014 /CNW/ – The tortured British painter Francis Bacon, whose triptych recently set a new record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, makes his Canadian debut this spring at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) alongside rarely-seen works by the British sculptor Henry Moore in the exhibition Francis Bacon & Henry […]
Omer Fast
May 8 – June 19, 2013
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
From May 8 to June 19, 2013, as part of its Projections series, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting Omer Fast’s work Continuity (2012) in the Beverley Webster Rolph Hall. Omer Fast is among those contemporary artists whose goal is an in-depth analysis of the space and narrative form of cinema. Employing a documentary form that fuses personal accounts, reportages, interviews and reenactments, his films often feature “protagonists” of recent wars and armed conflicts. Continuity a disturbing and unsettling blur of fact and fiction is often described as a work about loss and grief.
Laurent Grasso. Uraniborg
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 7 – April 28, 2013
The exhibition Uraniborg offers a unique foray into space and time, two themes that lie at the heart of Laurent Grasso’s approach. The history of observation and its connection to political power also plays a pivotal role in his work and acts as a starting point for a broader examination of seeing, controlling and monitoring, at the same time as it opens up a path to possible worlds.
Pierre Dorion
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Comprising more than seventy pieces produced since 1994, Pierre Dorion offers a critical overview of the painting of this major Montréal artist. While various authors have quite rightly stressed the important role played by photography in the creation of Dorion’s works, this exhibition focuses on their presentation context rather than their production process. Its starting point is a reconstruction of Chambres avec vues, an exhibition mounted by the artist in 1999 in a vacant apartment in the Dauphins sur le Parc building across from Parc La Fontaine in Montréal.
Janet Biggs
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
October 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Janet Biggs is known mainly for her video, photography and performance works that revolve around an exploration of extremes, whether geographical or physical. In them, Biggs takes her subjects, and herself, to the very limits of what is possible. Four of the artist’s video pieces, produced between 2010 and 2012, will be screened at the MAC: Fade to White, 2010, Brightness All Around, 2011, and In the Cold Edge, 2010, which together form The Arctic Trilogy, and her latest video, A Step on the Sun, 2012.
John McNamara: A Survey of Paintings
Gallery Bergelli
February 10 – March 7
John McNamara makes surrealist photo-collages and then slowly covers with them with a layer of oil paint, mixing not only figuration and abstraction, but also raising questions about representation in the way that many photographers of constructed realities are also doing, writes DeWitt Cheng in catalog essay accompanying the exhibition.
Valérie Blass
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Valérie Blass is one of the most captivating artists to have emerged in Québec in the last ten years. She is a sculptor in every sense of the word: she is concerned with the object, with the way objects relate to one another and with their placement in space.
Ghada Amer
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Multidisciplinary artist Ghada Amer is known primarily for her pictorial work, which she augments with embroidery, temporarily blurring our reading of the works. Moving in closer to decipher the composition of her paintings, viewer turns into voyeur as the eye makes out, amidst the clumps and “drips” of thread, the female bodies displayed in situations of erotic pleasure.