MAC 2015: Three Visions of the World

Three Visions of the World:

Patrick Bernatchez, Dana Schutz, Camille Henrot

October 17, 2015 - January 19, 2016

The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréa – MAC)l has launched yesterday its new season. MAC is offering the public a chance to experience the worlds of three artists who differ in their preferred themes, approaches and media, yet their three perspectives all share a concern for mutation and cycles. A Québec artist Patrick Bernatchez shows an interdisciplinary, polymorphous work in which metamorphosis plays a leading role. An American artist Dana Schutz surprises with her vision in her paintings and a video installation. And a French artist Camille Henrot presents a kaleidoscopic, 13-minute summary of the history of the universe (see top image).

The museum presents Patrick Bernatchez’ Les Temps inachevé in co-production with Casino Luxembourg. For the first time, his major works from two cycles representing a decade of conceptualization, creation, production, and presentation are brought together: Chrysalides, 2006-2013, and Lost in Time, 2009-2015. The show provides an opportunity to discover the practice of this artist who employs various disciplines from drawing to film and video, and also sound, sculpture, installation and photography.

The MAC also presents an American painter Dana Schutz. It is her first Canadian museum exhibition with a considerable space devoted solely to her works. Her paintings present a meld of figuration and abstraction, and her subject matter is direct and often quite graphic. She is considered to be an internationally renowned painter.The exhibition offers an overview of her work, from her beginnings to the recent output.

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For more information on this exhibition and the museum, visit the MAC website.