Attractions to discover, May 30, 2022 2022-05-30 2022-05-30 Quebecgetaways quebecvacances.com Partial view of the exhibition Nicolas Party : L’heure mauve, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. © Nicolas Party. Photo MMFA, Jean-François Brière For its summer season, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is turning the spotlight on three great names from the contemporary art scene and unveiling a group exhibition on the evocative theme of interior spaces. Here are four must-see exhibitions for a summer full of artistic discoveries. Nicolas Party’s L’heure mauve Until October 16, let yourself be transported to the heart of Swiss artist Nicolas Party's colourful universe, which will be featured for the first time in Canada, in L’heure mauve. In this exhibition comprising a hundred artworks in total, both from the artist and the MMFA collection, watercolours, pastels, sculptures and colourful murals reflect on the place of nature in the history of art, and the ties that bind humans to it. Singer-songwriter Pierre Lapointe provides the soundtrack that gives these works a musical dimension. These Things We’ve Done Together These Things We’ve Done Together is a powerful exhibition that highlights new works from Adam Pendleton's Untitled (WE ARE NOT) series. Far from stopping at a single medium, the New York-based artist blends lettering, words, splashes and images to explore the links between black identity, abstraction and avant-gardism. The exhibition also brings together the latest pieces in his Black Dada series of drawings, which are characteristic of his approach and processes. You will also be able to view his moving video tribute to avant-garde dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer. Don't miss this exhibition presented until July 10. Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit In the last years, the pandemic and confinement have transformed our ways of inhabiting space and raised social issues that have long remained hidden behind closed doors. The exhibition Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit, presented until July 2023, invites you to examine, through 60 works by some 20 artists, the different ways in which the interior is used as a domestic space and a place for creation, reflection, privacy and healing. Museum of the Art of Today / Department of the Invisible With Museum of the Art of Today / Department of the Invisible, Montreal artist Stanley Février takes a critical look at the social, cultural and power dynamics that contribute to the underrepresentation of certain "invisibilized" artists of diverse backgrounds. The exhibition is composed of performative artwork from Février's collection, conceived to rectify these inequalities. Lectures, films and performances will be offered as a complement to the exhibition, presented from June 15 to August 28. Stanley Février. Photo Jean G. Turgeon
Partial view of the exhibition Nicolas Party : L’heure mauve, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. © Nicolas Party. Photo MMFA, Jean-François Brière For its summer season, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is turning the spotlight on three great names from the contemporary art scene and unveiling a group exhibition on the evocative theme of interior spaces. Here are four must-see exhibitions for a summer full of artistic discoveries. Nicolas Party’s L’heure mauve Until October 16, let yourself be transported to the heart of Swiss artist Nicolas Party's colourful universe, which will be featured for the first time in Canada, in L’heure mauve. In this exhibition comprising a hundred artworks in total, both from the artist and the MMFA collection, watercolours, pastels, sculptures and colourful murals reflect on the place of nature in the history of art, and the ties that bind humans to it. Singer-songwriter Pierre Lapointe provides the soundtrack that gives these works a musical dimension. These Things We’ve Done Together These Things We’ve Done Together is a powerful exhibition that highlights new works from Adam Pendleton's Untitled (WE ARE NOT) series. Far from stopping at a single medium, the New York-based artist blends lettering, words, splashes and images to explore the links between black identity, abstraction and avant-gardism. The exhibition also brings together the latest pieces in his Black Dada series of drawings, which are characteristic of his approach and processes. You will also be able to view his moving video tribute to avant-garde dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer. Don't miss this exhibition presented until July 10. Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit In the last years, the pandemic and confinement have transformed our ways of inhabiting space and raised social issues that have long remained hidden behind closed doors. The exhibition Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit, presented until July 2023, invites you to examine, through 60 works by some 20 artists, the different ways in which the interior is used as a domestic space and a place for creation, reflection, privacy and healing. Museum of the Art of Today / Department of the Invisible With Museum of the Art of Today / Department of the Invisible, Montreal artist Stanley Février takes a critical look at the social, cultural and power dynamics that contribute to the underrepresentation of certain "invisibilized" artists of diverse backgrounds. The exhibition is composed of performative artwork from Février's collection, conceived to rectify these inequalities. Lectures, films and performances will be offered as a complement to the exhibition, presented from June 15 to August 28. Stanley Février. Photo Jean G. Turgeon