Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Spend some time at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec this summer. Located in the heart of the Parc des Champs-de-Bataille (Battlefields Park) in Québec City until September 3, the Musée is hosting the temporary exhibition In Wonderland. The fantastic works on display will blow you away.

In Wonderland

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico have co-organized this first international exhibition that highlights the contribution of women to the Surrealist movement in the United States and Mexico. Bringing together 179 works by 46 artists, created between 1930 and the end of the 1970s, the exhibition invites you to take an extraordinary journey, like that of Alice in Wonderland, dotted with strange and fabulous encounters.

The works deal with questions of identity, sexuality, witchcraft, creativity, psychoanalysis, memory, dreams, sentimentality, politics and war, indigenous culture, Mother Earth, and universal mythology. These many subjects are examined through painting, sculpture, film, photography, drawing, and stamping.

This one-of-a-kind exhibition shows how Surrealism became a means of self-discovery in North America where female artists were not subject to either the traditions of Europe or the consequences of the war. In Wonderland will take you into the fascinating and moving universes of Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Dorothea Tanning, Jacqueline Lamba, and a number of lesser-known artists.

Temporary exhibition: Au pays des merveilles

Launched in January 2012 in Los Angeles, the exhibition is presented in Québec City throughout the summer before ending its tour in Mexico in the fall. Thanks to the participation of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the book, which accompanies the exhibition and includes several captivating essays on the subject, is available in French.

Fine Arts in New France

From August 2, 2012 to April 28, 2013, don't miss the exhibition Fine Arts in New France. Nearly 150 works representative of the civil and religious spheres will be on display. You will be able to admire paintings, sculptures, drawings, metalware, and furnishings. This is an excellent synthesis of the arts in New France under the French Regime.