Cultural revival | Winter/Spring programme: well-being in museums

Back to well-being in museums. With the comfort of Nicolas Party at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canadian Impressionism at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, or even the Manif d’art disseminated on many sites of Quebec.

Eric Clement
The Press

MMFA

The visit of Nicolas Party to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is the museum event of this beginning of the year. The exhibition of the Swiss artist has just been launched at the Hornstein pavilion. With its pastels, paintings, sculptures and four mural works created in situ. All with works from the museum chosen in accordance with the theme of the exhibition, namely our links with nature. Guaranteed delight.

In addition, the museum will present, from 1^er March to July 10, Adam Pendleton: What We Did Together, the first solo in Canada by the young American conceptual artist. With four monumental paintings from his series Untitled (We Are Not)seven drawings from the corpus black dada and his film about avant-garde dancer Yvonne Rainer.

MNBAQ

The National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (MNBAQ) participates in the 10^and Manif d’art – Biennale de Québec held in the Old Capital until April 24. On the subject Illusions are realit presents a hundred works that address current socio-political issues.

Among the artists exhibited, we note the Canadians Michel de Broin, Nicolas Baier, Karen Tam, Maskull Laserre, Annie Baillargeon or Karine Payette and, from outside, Pierre Huyghe (France), Tony Tasset (United States) and Gabriel Lester ( Netherlands).

At the same time, the MNBAQ will propose, as of Thursday, Latent energies. Paul-Émile Borduas in the present. The donation of Michael J. Audain and Yoshiko Karasawaan exhibition centered on the donation of paintings by Borduas, with works by Riopelle, Dominique Blain, Nadia Myre, Michel Campeau, Alain Paiement and Michaëlle Sergile.

NGC

Canada and Impressionism. New Horizons is the major back-to-school exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). It has already been presented at the Kunsthalle in Munich, at the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne and at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. It gives access to around a hundred works by 36 Canadians who flirted with Impressionism, including Maurice Cullen, Clarence Gagnon, Helen McNicoll, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor Côté and Emily Carr. Until June 12.

Mac

At the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), temporarily installed at Place Ville Marie, the exhibition Contagion of Terror, on the damage of the Israeli software Pegasus, will end on April 12. Then, on May 18, the MAC will present an equally biting immersive exhibition by New York videographer Mika Rottenberg. With his videos NoNoseKnows (2015), Cosmic Generator (2017) and Spaghetti Blockchain (2019).

McCord Museum

The McCord will celebrate its 100th birthday this year. With, among other things, exhibitions focusing on diversity. Until September 18, it gives pride of place to queer photography with the first museum solo by JJ Levine, a Montreal trans photographer who depicts his queer friends in their daily lives.

As of March 25, the museum will welcome the Inuit Niap in residence. She was inspired by objects from the McCord collection to create installations. Note that the exhibition Parachute on subversive 80s fashion will end on April 24.

Joliette Art Museum

The Joliette Art Museum (MAJ) offers until May 15, Dessiller: opening up to the off-screen. With works that defy convention, signed in particular Lorna Bauer, Marie-Claire Blais, Nadège Grebmeier Forget or Tau Lewis. The museum also exhibits paintings by Ontarian Derek Liddington and has installed three works by Alberta duo DaveandJenn, a video and sound installation, The song of the forest, a painting and a video diptych. The installation adopts an exotic language inspired by 17th century Dutch painting.^and century. A reflection on human activity and its consequences on nature.

Pointe-a-Calliere

After Make way for the circus!which ends on March 6, the City of Archeology and History of Montreal will present Vikings – North Sea Dragons, from April 14. An exhibition on the Vikings with 650 objects from the National Museum of Denmark. As was the case for Queens of Egypt in 2018, Ubisoft accompanies the museum in this presentation with images and videos taken from the game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Chateau Ramezay

Ramezay will offer two new exhibitions in a few weeks. Inuit worlds – The Saladin d’Anglure collection, an immersion in the world of the Inuit under the eye of anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. An exhibition of Laval University. And Arctic Lessons, about Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first white man to cross the Northwest Passage and reach the South Pole. A feat facilitated by his knowledge acquired through contact with the Inuit. The dates are to be confirmed on the museum’s website.

Civilization Museum

In Quebec, the Musée de la civilization (MCQ) presents Vast Body. Infinite moves, an interactive installation on movement, by Caroline Robert and Vincent Morisset. Then, from April 5, with the exhibition Eeyou Istchee: an invitation to experience the territorythe museum will allow visitors to spend a day with the Crees of Waswanipi during the traditional spring goose hunt, the Goose Break. With images shot in 360 degrees. Until February 2023.

Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts

In Sherbrooke, the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts (MBAS) has two exhibitions at the start of the year. Rita Letendre. lines of force comes from the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent and presents some thirty works created by Rita Letendre between 1953 and 1980. Intended for young art lovers, The man who saw the man who saw the bear is produced in collaboration with the organization Musée ambulant. The audience is greeted by Bruce the Bear, a work by Paryse Martin that guides children through a fantastic journey in which the visitor is the hero. With works by Ludovic Boney, Serge Lemoyne, Guido Molinari, Fernand Toupin and Armand Vaillancourt.