Cultural return under the sign of hospitality in art galleries and artist centers

A gallery that welcomes another, projects driven by attention to nature, to objects, to our fellow human beings, a less local Toronto biennial… The season will take place under the sign of hospitality.

End of cycle

Autumn will be the last of Caroline Andrieux at the Darling Foundry, a place she recycled into an art center more than twenty years ago. For this end of a cycle, which calls for the beginning of another, she signs the exhibition Deliquescence and brings together ten artists around entropy — the Lorna Bauer and Sébastien Cliche from here, the Gordon Matta-Clark from elsewhere (and from the past). From September 26 to December 8.

The photographer Hubert Hayaudwho collaborated on the Dutyfollowed car wrecks from the United States to Central America, a journey destined for the rebirth of cars. Run & Drive is presented at the Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto from September 19 to November 3.

Ruins and decay have attracted Natascha Niederstrass towards Poveglia, an abandoned island near Venice, from where she took the images of Ruin lust. At the Patrick Mikhail gallery from September 28 to November 9.

At the UQO Gallery in Gatineau, Milutin Gubash ends a cycle that began in 2015 at the same location. Exploring the creative process and its contradictions, the exhibition Art world obsolescence. Disaster zone in an abandoned theater set will take the form of a monument of objects. From November 20 to January 18.

Habitats

Inescapable in current events, the question of housing and more broadly of habitat manifests itself in a thousand ways in art. The photographer Jinyoung Kim testifies to his feelings of belonging to a place, while it is increasingly difficult to anchor oneself somewhere. The images of Here are on view at Dazibao until October 26.

Ludovic Boney makes a Tempo shelter a longhouse to preserve Indigenous history and material culture. Family gathering is on display at the Daphne Art Center until December 14.

Optimistic and futuristic, Daniel Corbeil offers its solutions to flooding with a series of dioramas. Saved from the waters! Redevelopment of a submerged territory will be presented at gallery B-312 from 1^er November to December 14.

Finally, the photographer of the Duty Valerian Mazataud looks at the phenomenon of the “ecosystem of fear” and traces in The colony How, in Honduras, people are providing themselves with places to live to escape violence. At the VU center, in Quebec, from October 25 to December 15.

Antidotes to Oblivion

It’s not all new this fall – so much the better. On the occasion of the unveiling of recent paintings and drawings by Francois Morellithe Chiguer gallery is bringing out its Body Politics, sculptures from the 1990s that embody a “powerful paradox,” according to the gallery owner, as they evoke protection and aggression. From October 3 to November 9.

David Elliot is entitled to its double at the Nicolas Robert gallery, which juxtaposes recent cases with large paintings from the 1980s never exhibited, except in Mexico. Starting October 31.

Alongside ” [d’]recent explorations » of Karilee Fuglemthe Pierre-François Ouellette contemporary art gallery presents its “mur qui respire”, an intriguing 1997 installation in latex and fans. From November 16 to January 11.

The major anti-amnesia effort, however, comes from Cozicwho acts as commissioner on behalf of Agrégat, an entity located in the atrium of the Longueuil campus of the University of Sherbrooke. Selected pieces brings together seven rarely exhibited artists, such as Celine B. The Terror, Peter Krausz, Thomas Corriveau Or Eric Lamontagne. From October 4 to 1^er December.

Facing nature

The observation of nature, flora or fauna, will color the season. In Quebec, at VU, a large gathering takes place with, in particular, the communion of Sarah Boutin with stones, an ornithology project of Vincent Drouin, or the collection of medicinal plants fromIdra Labrie. The living is running until October 20.

Charles-Frédérick Ouelletthe Quebecer winner of a World Press Photo award (and contributor to Duty), exhibits at Occurrence his images of the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, where large geese begin their migration. Until October 19.

Paul Litherland And Karen Traskowners of the small gallery Produit Rien, move into the smaller Hangar 7826 to reveal their maritime experiences, he, his portraits of diving fish, she, her figurines of clay swimmers. From November 16 to 1^er December.

The Alfred-Pellan room in Laval will end the year with the paintings of David Lafrancelandscapes born from the artist’s horticultural experiences in response to “climatic annoyances”. From 1^er December.

The Toronto Biennale

For a rare time, the 3^e edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art will have Montreal colours with the presence of 5 artists (out of 36) — Maria Ezcurra, Manuel Mathieu, Karen Tam, Stina Baudin And Leila Zelli — and, of course, Dominique Fontaineone of the commissioners. On the theme of the precariousness of happiness (Precarious Joyssays the title), the biennial will be less local than ever. The other curator, the Peruvian Miguel A. Lopezis undoubtedly behind the choice of a large delegation of Latin American artists. Under these traits of universalism, the event promises to be open to differences in practices, generations, and discourses. From September 21 to 1^er December.

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