MMFA 2014: Lemieux & Pilon Dreamscapes

Michel Lemieux - Victor Pilon:

Dreamscapes 

 
30 years of innovative performances

May 1 - August 31, 2014

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as a principal partner, is hosting the 2014 International Digital Arts Biennial and is presenting the multidisciplinary company Lemieux & Pilon 4D Art. This is a retrospective exhibition with an immersive installation which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the company founded in Montreal in 1983.

Lemieux Pilon 4D Art's speciality is performance art. They have well over thirty original productions to their credit. Their works combine theatre, film, dance, poetry, music, visual arts and sound to create original works that meet acclaim when performed.

  

The company creates hybrid shows fusing reality and virtuality, the performing arts and new media. Their productions, which employ the technology of virtual projections, erase the boundaries between performance, set design, film, video, dance, poetry, visual arts, light, music and sound exploration, promoting the integration of those diverse forms of expression.

For more information, visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' website

https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en

EM15

ELEKTRA & MUTEK PRESENT EM15

May 27 - June 1, 2014

 

This year being its 15th year of its existence, the EM celebrates the crystal anniversary. EM is recognized as as a unique event within the multidisciplinary field of cutting edge contemporary digital creation, electronic music, new media and culture. The Montréal's digital arts festival Elektra, and electronic music and digital creativity institution MUTEK, have joined forces, synchronized dates and created one powerhouse combined event. This two-festival-in-one affair, christened this year EM15, showcases more than 100 Canadian and international artists in several new venues.

This year, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal opens its spaces to act as the nerve centre and main headquarters for the festival’s activities. MACM participation underlines a commitment in seeking out innovation in digital art and music, and taking risks that only non-commercial festivals can. 

Dedicated to live performance and forward thinking vision in sound and image, EM15 promises festival goers a multidimensional experience!

For more information and the schedule of events and performances visit the EM15 website.

PAC Museum: Ancient Greece - World Premiere

Pointe-à-Callière and the Canadian Museum of History:
The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great

Montreal:  December 12, 2014 - April 26, 2015
Gatineau:   June 5 -  October 12, 2015

Today, it was announced that Pointe-à-Callière (PAC), Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History, and the Canadian Museum of History will be welcoming a world premiere exhibition to Canada later this year: This the exhibition will cover more than 5,000 years of Greek culture and history, from the Neolithic Period to the Age of Alexander the Great. 

The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great will be the most comprehensive exhibition on Ancient Greece ever presented in North America. It will bring together more than 500 artifacts from 22 Greek museums, including many pieces never before displayed outside Greece. Among other treasures, visitors will be able to see a number of priceless objects, the result of some unparalleled archaeological discoveries. 

In order to facilitate the production of the exhibition of this breadth, a consortium of North American museums was created. In addition to the Canadian Museum of History and Pointe-à-Callière, the consortium includes The Field Museum in Chicago and the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC. The Museum of History will oversee direction of the consortium as well as work on production of the exhibition in association with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. 

To find out about the PAC Museum's current and upcoming exhibitions, visit the museum's website:

http://pacmusee.qc.ca/en

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See my later article about the PAC Museum The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great exhibition here.

The MAC at the MMFA

1+1=1

When Collections Collide:
The MAC and the MMFA

February 22 - June 15, 2014


The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting a new exhibition in partnership with the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, or in French Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC). This exhibition features a convergence of the permanent contemporary art collections of the two institutions, hence the title 1+1=1.

As the celebration of MAC's 50th anniversary, this exhibition has as a goal to embody a genuine dialogue between these two Montreal's art institutions.

Above is the sculpture by Guiseppe Penone I have been a Tree in the Hand with a detail on the right.. 

Below is the work by Nicolas Baier Planet with a detail of two people on the Planet's beach on the right.

The following is the famous sculpture by Louise Bourgeois entitled The Red Room - Child, together with the detail of its interior. I already wrote about this work in the past in this blog. Click here to read that article.

Below are two additional works featured at this exhibition. On the left is Betty Goodwin's Pieces of Time V and on the right is the work by Pierre Dorion, called Untitled.

The following is Ai Weiwei's work Seven Frames.

The last photo is of Martin Honert's Linden.

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For more information, visit the Museum's website:

http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en

Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands Catalogue

Peter Doig Book 
No Foreign Lands

Along with the Peter Doig art exhibition discussed at here, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is offering to the public the Catalogue of his works. The Catalogue is quite an impressive book comprising of 224 pages. Those pages feature high quality illustrations, photos of his art (both finished paintings and preparatory sketches), as well as text that represents the research on his work. 

This Catalogue can be purchased at the exhibition's book store.

Here are a few pages from the catalogue.

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For more information on Peter Doig exhibition, visit The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts's website.

Peter Doig Exhibition Catalogue can be purchased at the MMFA's boutique and store.

MMFA Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands

Peter Doig
No Foreign Lands

January 25 - May 4, 2014


The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting an exhibition of works by Peter Doig, a contemporary Scottish Artist. Doig, born in Edinburgh, grew up in Montreal and later moved to Trinidad.

Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands is a co-production of the MMFA and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, where it was view in summer and fall of 2013 and met with great critical success. this is the first major exhibition to be devoted to this painter in North America. The exhibition will make only one stop in North America, at the MMFA. 

Together with many smaller works, posters, and sketches, fourty of Doig’s very large paintings are also on display in the MMFA's Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion.

The exhibition covers Doig’s output since he settled in Trinidad in 2002.

Many of Doig's paintings are landscapes. He often draws inspiration from photographs, clippings of various images and even from the work of earlier artists, like for instance from Gauguin in the following paintings, especially the first one.

Here is the view of the exhibition room that features Doig hand made film posters.

For more information, visit the Museum's website.

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Peter Doig Exhibition Catalogue can be purchased at the MMFA Bookstore.