This text is part of the special notebook It’s Summer
Outdoor installations, an ode to wild picking, great painters inspired by the plain of Flanders… Here are somesome of the events not to be missed to take advantage of the sunny days by opening up to the outside world through the visual arts throughout Quebec.
“Vice, virtue, desire, madness. Three centuries of Flemish masterpieces »
The result of a collaboration with the Denver Art Museum and the Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, the new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts transports us to the plains of northwest Europe, at a time of full artistic effervescence, scientific and social. Religious art from the 15th centurye century to the great figures of the 17th century baroquee century, Flanders constituted a formidable crucible of inspiration for great masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Antoine van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Embellished with works from the MMFA’s Flemish art collection, the exhibition also presents an immersive space inspired by Kunstkammerthe famous cabinets of curiosities which housed prestigious art collections in the bourgeois houses of yesteryear. From June 8 to October 20
“Rembrandt. Engravings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen »
Between 1625 and 1665, Rembrandt engraved around 300 etching prints, a complex technique that he mastered like no one else. Eighty of these remarkable works are today presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. The exhibition highlights the different subjects treated by Rembrandt (self-portraits, religious prints, landscapes, portraits and genre scenes), such as the subtlety with which the Dutch artist integrated chiaroscuro into his engravings. It is also an opportunity to highlight some of the Quebec engravers who were inspired by the practice of Rembrandt. Until September 2
“Incarnated spaces”
Already successfully presented this winter, the innovative series continues this summer at the PHI Center. The cultural and artistic hub of Old Montreal invites a new host of artists from diverse backgrounds to “embody” its interior spaces to develop a unique connection between art, the public and the environments. Marcella França (June 29 and 30), Catherine Desjardins-Béland (July 20 and 21) and the La Tresse collective (August 31) are expected at the Phi Center to take over the premises and explore several themes linked to the ‘contemporary art. From May 25
“Anthology of walking”
For more than a decade, Mauricie artist Geneviève Baril has put walking and gathering in nature at the heart of her creative process. An approach which led the Kamouraska Art Center to offer him the opportunity to travel throughout the Bas-Saint-Laurent region as part of a three-week summer creative residency. The objective for Geneviève Baril is to harvest wild plants and flowers, while respecting ecosystems, and then assemble, braid and weave them inside large hanging frames. The Center also invites the public to contribute to this immersive and multisensory exhibition by making collections to continue the assembly of frames started by the artist. From June 14
“Meeting of popular art in Quebec”
More determined than ever to become the “capital of popular art in Quebec”, the municipality of Plaisance in Outaouais is organizing the second edition of its meetings with around twenty sculptors. The opportunity to meet the artists, but also to explore the new spaces of the Center d’art populaire du Québec in which the works of classical sculptors (such as Georges Racicot and Cléophas Lachance) and contemporary ones (such as Alain Vachon and René Dandurand) are exhibited. ). A luminokinetic exhibition also offers the opportunity to discover, or rediscover, the work of the great master of Quebec popular art, Florent Veilleux, who left us in January 2023. From June 21 to 23
“Fine arts and unsaid”
Since Suzanne Rivard LeMoyne created the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa in 1974, beautiful people have passed through the famous 100 Laurier Avenue East. Edmund Alleyn, Geneviève Cadieux, Heidi Conrod, Martin Golland, Jinny Yu and Michael Belmore, to name but a few, are all alumni of the prestigious Department which is commemorating its fiftieth anniversary this year. An anniversary celebrated, as it should be, with an exhibition, Fine arts and unsaidhighlighting the works of fifty renowned artists who studied and taught painting, sculpture, photography and other disciplines at the University of Ottawa. Until September 22
“Marcelle Ferron. From the workshop to the public space
The visual artist and leading figure of the automatist movement would have turned 100 this year. To mark this centenary, the Simon Blais Gallery has brought together nearly a hundred works, including more than thirty creations in fused glass, in a remarkable exhibition (on view until June 22) illustrating the different stages of the career of Marcelle Ferron. At the same time, the Outremont district joined forces with the Friends of Place Marcelle-Ferron to set up an installation made up of twelve panels. This beautiful route to discover on Avenue Bernard traces the aesthetic evolution of the artist, from his first paintings of the 1940s to his works of public art from the 1960s and 1970s. Located in the heart of Outremont, the The open-air exhibition also highlights the way in which Marcelle Ferron, to whom we owe, among other things, the glass roofs of the Champ-de-Mars metro station, integrated art into architecture and space audience. Until September 22
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