The image is in the spotlight in museums in this new cultural season. With exhibitions dedicated to Diane Arbus, Evergon, Michel Huneault, Richard-Max Tremblay, Skawennati and Nelson Henricks. Another unmissable event: the event Basquiat and music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Here are our 10 suggestions for exhibitions not to be missed.
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
PHOTO DIANE ARBUS, PROVIDED BY THE MMFA
Three transvestites, NYC, 1962, Diane Arbus (1923-1971), gelatin silver print, 27.9 x 35.6 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. © Estate of Diane Arbus.
Postponed last year because of the pandemic, the exhibition exploring the love of the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) for music will finally take the stage on October 15. Full volume – Basquiat and music will include around a hundred visual and sound works. In the meantime, the MMFA season opened on the 1er September with the ceramics, drawings and sculptures of Canadian Shary Boyle. It will continue on September 15 with Diane Arbus – Photographs, 1956-1971, 90 silver gelatin prints by American Diane Arbus. Note that the major exhibition Nicolas Party – The purple hour continues until October 16.
McCord Stewart Museum
PHOTO MICHEL HUNEAULT, PROVIDED BY THE MCCORD-STEWART MUSEUM
Waiting room, Verdun Hospital, Montreal, May 14, 2020, 2020, Michel Huneault. Collection of the McCord-Stewart Museum.
Two exhibitions this fall at the McCord-Stewart. From September 16, Incipit – COVID-19, the view of photographer Michel Huneault on the pandemic, in public space, private life and the hospital environment. And Disraeli revisited – Chronicle of a Quebec photographic event, starting October 28. A look back at the summer of 1972, when young people Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Michel Campeau, Roger Charbonneau, Cedric Pearson, Maryse Pellerin and Ginette Laurin painted a portrait of rurality in the Appalaches.
National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
PHOTO EVERGON, PROVIDED BY THE MNBAQ
Homage to Raphael: Jupiter Kissing Cupid or The Harmony Lessonfrom the Serie XXX-L2006, Evergon, inkjet print from a negative, 152 x 111 cm
The MNBAQ promises “daring, exaltation and enchantment” this fall. Hang in there with the retrospective of Canadian photographer Evergon, presented from October 20! The journey of a successful career and a style as irreverent as it is daring. A must and a test for open-mindedness…
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts
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Villa Laroche2015, Richard-Max Tremblay, oil on canvas, 183 x 152 cm
Starting October 6, the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts presents Eclipse, an exhibition dedicated to the photographer and painter Richard-Max Tremblay, jointly with the Antoine-Sirois gallery of the University of Sherbrooke. Twenty-five years of pictorial and photographic creations, in addition to a retrospective of his portraits.
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
PHOTO NELSON HENRICKS, PROVIDED BY THE MAC OF MONTREAL
Heads Will Roll (freeze frame), 2022, Nelson Henricks, four-channel video installation, sound, color, 22 min. Courtesy of the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Starting November 17, the MAC is exhibiting two new installations by Montreal artist Nelson Henricks. Firstly, Don’t You Like the Green of A? (Don’t you like the green of the A?), “a surrealist interpretation of the correspondences between letters and colors specific to synesthesia” by the American abstract painter Joan Mitchell (1925-1992). On the other hand, Heads Will Roll (heads will roll), performances exploring the revolutionary potential of popular and experimental music. Solid and unique.
Pointe-à-Calliere Museum
PHOTO PIERRE-OLIVIER DESCHAMPS, PROVIDED BY POINTE-À-CALLIÈRE
misango mayaka (headdress), second half of the XXe century. Democratic Republic of Congo. Vegetable fibers, beads, wood, 19 x 37 x 34 cm. © Confluence Museum (Lyon, France).
The exhibition Vikings – North Sea Dragons will end on October 10 at Pointe-à-Callière, which will offer from November 17 The world in mind – The Antoine de Galbert collection, a world tour in 300 headwear from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. An exhibition based on an original concept from the Musée des Confluences, in Lyon.
National Gallery of Canada
PHOTO SÉAMUS GALLAGHER, PROVIDED BY THE NGC
An uncertain place 42019, Séamus Gallagher, inkjet print
From September 2 to February 26, the NGC offers Movement – The expressiveness of the body in art, on the expressive power of the human body. With prints, photographs, videos and paintings. In addition, the General Idea exhibition continues there until November 20th. Just like the installation video Vertigo Seaby John Akomfrah, until July 2023.
Civilization Museum
PHOTO RADIO-CANADA FUND, PROVIDED BY THE MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION
Rene Levesque
As part of the 100e anniversary of René Lévesque’s birth, the Musée de la civilization, in Québec, and the René-Lévesque Foundation will present, as of November 17, René and Lévesque, an intimate portrait of the politician, statesman and journalist who marked our public life. Previously, the museum will offer Witness coverage, September 30, an installation by Indigenous sculptor Carey Newman that honors the victims of residential schools. And The time of the pharaohsfrom October 27, a look at Egyptian civilization through the places and spaces that tell the story of the pharaohs.
Joliette Art Museum
PHOTO JEAN-FRANÇOIS BRIÈRE, MMFA, PROVIDED BY THE JOLIETTE ART MUSEUM
Abstract composition (Design noh 1)1944, Gordon Webber
The Musée d’art de Joliette offers, from October 15, Forgotten! Scott, Brandtner, Eveleigh, Webber – Revisiting 1940s Montreal Abstraction, an exhibition on four abstract artists who have remained in the shadows: Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh and Gordon Webber. Also the exhibition Clan by Alberta Indigenous artist Faye HeavyShield, and a tribute, tumultuous tablesto Rita Letendre.
Quebec Crafts Museum
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Countryside2021, Mâri Ramsi, embroidery
The Musée des métiers d’art du Québec (MUMAQ) presents, until October 16, Akhmîm, Egypt – 4000 years of textile art. This exhibition, curated by Samir Chacour, features collections of Egyptian textiles, embroidery and works of naïve art made by women from the city of Akhmîm, in Upper Egypt, while the art of high-heeled looms was previously exclusively reserved for men. Do not miss.