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What exhibitions should you not miss in Quebec this fall? Our regional museums are full of great activities to put on our agenda.
Tenderly subversive tributes to the Joliette Art Museum
As part of the 75e anniversary of the famous manifesto Overall refusal, which has been the subject of several exhibitions since 2023, particular attention was paid to one of its signatories, Marcelle Ferron, who would celebrate her 100th this yeare birthday.
“This is what shows, in my opinion, the importance that must be given to his work. What a woman! » exclaims Julie Alary Lavallée, curator of collections at the Joliette Art Museum (MAJ) and curator of Marcelle Ferron. The sum of freedompresented until July 2025.
With a view that is as historical as it is artistic, this exhibition recounts in 12 paintings, like so many milestones, the journey of this feminist, independent and committed artist who has created a body of work that is both abstract and very personal. “By diving into our collection,” says Mme Alary Lavallée, I realized that this extended over the entire career of Marcelle Ferron, from her first (extremely rare) paintings before Overall refusal, up to those she produced during her 13-year stay in France, as well as those which marked her return to painting after years devoted to public art. »
It is therefore a concrete dive into the creative universe of this great artist that the MAJ invites us. The opportunity to take advantage of this visit to discover another, that of the intriguing Moridja Kitenge Banza, from October 5.
This artist of Congolese origin, who grew up in a society marked by colonialism, has for years been appropriating the codes developed by the Church to reflect on his hybrid identity, both African and Western. For the exhibition Exiled to Eden at the MAJ, the artist has actually erected a chapel in which he brings together his works and others drawn from the museum’s sacred art collection. “It’s a powerful exhibition, with a message that is both gentle and uncomfortable, which will surprise many visitors,” believes the curator.
Colorful immersion in Quebec history at the POP Museum
The POP Museum in Trois-Rivières always explores Quebec popular culture in a fun and unusual way. This fall, in addition to long-term exposure Tie your hatothers are worth the trip.
This is particularly the case for Curiosities of Mr. Séguinpresented until March 30, 2025 and which brings together a multitude of objects previously used by Quebecers. Gleaned by the ethnologist Robert-Lionel Séguin throughout his life, some of them are real curiosities.
Also pay attention to the exhibition Marcel Dargis, painter. Insights on Quebec society. Aged 95 and still active, Mr. Dargis offers a colorful interpretation of the significant moments and characters of our Quebec society, such as Gilles Vigneault. Smiles assured.
Transmission objects in the Laurentians and Montérégie
Two regions and as many exhibitions which focus on artistic know-how as objects of creation and memory both material and immaterial.
At MAC LAU, located in Saint-Jérôme, the exhibition Transmissions brings together ceramic pieces by Eve K. Tremblay, a native of the Laurentians, quilts by Carla Hemlock, from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, and a basketry work by Sonia Robertson, from the Ilnu community of Mashteuiatsh.
On the side of the Museum of Fine Arts of Mont-Saint-Hilaire will present from November 23 Heartstringsa collective exhibition based around the works of Martine Bertrand, Johanne Bilodeau and Jolanta Sprawka, three artists who use string and rope to express themselves.
Abstraction featured at the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent
In Rivière-du-Loup, the museum autumn combines with the discovery or rediscovery of artists who contributed to the emergence and development of abstract art in Quebec.
Until October 27, first of all, visitors are invited to meet in Forgotten! four Montreal visual artists, one woman and three men from the 1940s — Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh and Gordon Webber — who left less of an impression than the signatories of Overall refusalbut whose visual approach also evoked different political, social and scientific questions of their time.
Furthermore, in the Museum hall, it is interesting to stop in front of the work of Jean-Paul Jérôme Clash between two realitieswhich underlines the 70e birthday of Manifesto of visual artists.
Nature in three dimensions at the Baie-Saint-Paul Contemporary Art Museum
Three temporary exhibitions devoted to as many personal representations of the Charlevoix region are currently on offer within the walls of the Museum.
The artist Karine Locatelli renews the tradition of pleinairist drawing on several media: canvases, installations, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, embroidery and natural objects collected in the forest. For his part, René Richard, a Swiss artist established in Baie-Saint-Paul in the 1930s, produced hundreds of drawings, sketches and sketches which testify to an informed observation of his time. Finally, in Florafive artists depict the seasons and natural elements of Charlevoix through painting, models, drawing or multimedia installations.
Museum meetings in Gatineau and Ottawa
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