Starting in March, Tate Britain will hold a major exhibition about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain, which highlights how Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture throughout his career and how he in turn inspired British artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon. Bringing together the largest group of Van Gogh paintings shown in the UK for nearly a decade, The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain will include over 45 works by the artist from public and private collections around the world. They include: Self-Portrait (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1889), L’Arlésienne (Museu de Arte de São Paolo, 1890), Starry Night (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 1888), Shoes (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1886) as well as the rarely loaned Sunflowers (National Gallery, London, 1888). The exhibition also features late works including two painted by Van Gogh in the Saint-Paul asylum, At Eternity’s Gate (Kröller-Müller Museum of Otterlo, 1890) and Prisoners Exercising (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1890). From March 27 to August 11, 2019.
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Virtual Exhibition
Images on stone is a Virtual exhibition on rock art in Canada created by the Musée de la civilisation in partnership with Virtual Museum of Canada. Astonishing, mysterious images drawn or painted on rock walls or carved in stone across the Canadian landscape: rock art reflects the cultures of Indigenous Peoples who have been living on the territory for thousands of years. To provide the public with an opportunity to discover the wealth of this Indigenous cultural heritage, the Musée de la civilisation presents the Images on Stone. Rock art in Canada online exhibition on the institution’s website. By exploring the Images on Stone. Rock Art in Canada exhibition on-line, the public will discover the mysteries surrounding the many rock drawings and carvings found throughout Canada. People will also learn about the various scientific and cultural aspects of this age-old phenomenon more widespread in North America than generally believed. Featuring encyclopaedic contents and a selection of five sites representative of the cultural and geographical diversity of rock art in Canada, the exhibition highlights the means used to produce rock art, the significance of graphic contents, the Indigenous cultural communities associated with each site, the connection that they maintain with these sites and the preventive or curative measures taken to ensure their preservation.
Musée de la civilisation: www.mcq.org/en/
Musée virtuel du Canada: www.virtualmuseum.ca
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The Bruck Museum presents Les saisons du lin, an exhibition where artist and textile designer Mylène Boisvert presents a collection of works made with textile papers, mainly linen, freely inspired by antique objects from Québec and from France. She uses kilometers of Saint-Armand linen paper yarns, handmade following the Japanese technique of kami-ito. With this personalized yarn she creates murals or draws with paper as she would with pencil. Through techniques inherent to textile design and painting, she evokes the multiple skills linked to this millennium fibre where transmission of knowledge stretched from sowing to weaving and embroidery. Until May 4, 2019.
Also at Bruck Museum, in a visual arts approach, Mariève Pelletier proposes an exhibition inspired by her research in photography. Through her work she questions the plastic functions and the identity of the medium and its duality with painting. She is interested in photographic development engendered through chemical agents and the passage of time. She raises a fundamental question concerning the perreniality of images. Painting is approached as an extension of her research on image creation and introduces a new notion: optics. From May 6 to July 6, 2019.
Passionate about architecture and photography, Martin Gendron presents, at Bruck Museum, L’esprit du lieu, a series of large format black and white photographs taken in Venice and Rome, exploring the coexistence between human beings and the built heritage of these emblematic locations. His viewpoint reveals the ethereal dimensions of some of these places that prompt respect or take us on a journey through time. His images feature evocative spaces and are thought-provoking. From July 11 to September 7, 2019.
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Also presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, the very first exhibition devoted to the work of the French creator. Premiering in Montréal, this retrospective brings together more than 140 accessorized garments, most of which are being shown for the first time, as well as a wealth of unpublished archival documents and sketches and one hundred or so photographs by renowned fashion photographers. The exhibition traces the career of a couturier who has shaken the world of fashion, from power dressing to stage costumes, with glamourous materials and a theatrical and sculptural vision. It dives into Thierry Mugler’s unique imagination, evoking in turn Hollywood-like perfectionism and prestige, fantasy, fauna, eroticism and science fiction. It explains his audacious choices, such as the use of innovative materials like metal, fake fur, vinyl and latex. Until September 8, 2019.
Presented at the MMFA in conjunction with Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, the exhibition Montreal Couture pays tribute to the talent of 10 local creators and collectives. Montreal Couture is the first exhibition to bring together the creations of three Quebec fashion icons: Marie Saint Pierre, with her precise, timeless cuts that marry style and function; Philippe Dubuc, whose debut collection reinvented menswear; and Denis Gagnon, who swept the fashion scene with his irreverent style and haute couture approach. It is also an opportunity to discover the futuristic universe of creator Ying Gao. Emerging creators are also featured: Atelier New Regime, Nathon Kong, MARKANTOINE, Helmer Joseph, Marie-Ève Lecavalier and the Fecal Matter duo. Until September 8, 2019.
With Alanis Obomsawin, Printmaker, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts unveils for the first time a selection of remarkable and emotive prints by Alanis Obomsawin, renowned filmmaker, writer, singer and artist. Working primarily in engraving and etching, the artist deals with the experience, memories and myths of her nation, the Waban-Aki people. Along with a selection of about 25 prints, the exhibition will also include intricate and fascinating ash and sweet grass objects, baskets, hand-made by members of the Waban-Aki nation at Odanak. From May 21 to August 25, 2019.
The MMFA presents the first monographic exhibition in Canada devoted to the work of Omar Ba, one of the most important African artist of his generation. Ba paints mainly on cardboard with a mixture of various media. With a unique visual language that fuses the figurative and the abstract, the human and the animal, the symbolic and the literal, Ba’s practice engages with some of the most pressing geo-political and socio-economic issues of our time. During his passage at the MMFA, the artist will create a unique installation in situ. This exhibition will bring together the work from Ba’s most important series, underscoring his profound critique of violence and corruption as well as his celebration of the human spirit. From May 28 to November 3, 2019.
Participate in the 18th auction of the Économusée du fier monde! This year, 54 works of art of Québécois and Canadian artists will be put up for live auction and 12 works for silent auction, for the benefit of the Économusée. During the evening under the honorary chairmanship of Francine Grimaldi and hosted by Annie Reynaud, Winston McQuade will act as auctioneer. Cocktails at 5 pm. Auction at 7 pm. Catalogue online: economusée.qc.ca. Ticket: $50. 514-528-8444. Exhibition: April 24 to May 5, 2019, free entry.
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Great Encounter
“My advice is to not always paint a subject from nature. Art is an abstraction; distance it from nature through your reverie and rather imagine the resulting creation.” – Gauguin
Raynald Leclerc was born in 1961 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, a hamlet located on the River flats. The passage of foreign bound ships and the rhythm of tides remain the scenic reference for his personal propensity to always take a step further and look ahead in his creation as in life.
The painter has been applying this principle through all aspects of his inventive universe for some thirty-seven years. And even more, perhaps, for this series of twenty-five paintings gathered under the title “À vol d’oiseau” A Bird’s-eye View.
La haute-ville, 30 x 36 in
Text by Michel Bois
From May 4 to May 11, 2019
Vernissage Saturday May 4 at 12 pm
À la Galerie Internationale, 87, rue Saint-Pierre, Québec 418 692-1152
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Contemporary Realism
Every morning, Nancy Galianos starts her day by going up to her vast studio atop her home, never knowing what awaits her. Nothing is planned. The first thing she needs to do is start searching for a subject that will be willing to take shape in her eyes on that day.
The energy generated by the music she almost ritually turns-on in the room first leads her to reflect and reminisce, as it brings forth various emotional memories. At the whim of the happy or sad feelings she experiences, Nancy Galianos grabs a brush, a roller or a spatula and embarks on a new venture the issue of which remains uncertain almost until the very end. Whether there be rain, snow, intense sunshine, heath or cold, her total environment influences and guides her creative gestures.
Summer joy, acrylic, 18 x 14 in
Text by Lisanne Le Tellier
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Painting a Country
Sunshine fills painter Roger Ricard’s studio. The double doors, with glass panes painted by the artist, open to a coloured explosion of paintings upon paintings with vibrant scenes as heart-warming as a tight embrace in the heart of winter.
With either his landscapes or his fanciful interiors, Roger Ricard invites us into a dreamlike universe filled with fantasy, joy and humour. An experienced painter who is celebrating his 50th year of career, his artistic signature features vivid colours, fluid movements, rhythm of lines and a balanced composition in shapes as much as in tonalities. He is an instinctive artist who interprets his subjects and exaggerates the aspects he loves. “What I paint is not real, it comes from my imagination,” says the artist, which is part of the reason why admiring his works procures such a great feeling.
Couleurs d’automne à mon atelier, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in
Text by Isabelle Gauthier
Represented by :
Galerie Céleste, Saint-Sauveur
Lumière au pinceau, Shawinigan
Pousette Gallery, Vancouver
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Delight in Discovery
“Our souvenirs fade with the passage of time, but what is memory if not an act of the imagination!” – Lindsay Clarke
A warm and cozy atmosphere. Soft lights deliciously dimmed. Victorian furniture a bit dated in appearance. We are in painter Sophie Lévesque’s secret garden, where flourish souvenirs, sentiments and intimate visions to be shared. A place where time is dissected into an array of visual parcels. Here a bull’s-eye window, there a wobbly chair or table.
Sophie Lévesque juggles with the notions of space and the passing of time, as others do with shapes. In brief, she knows how to reconstruct a universe around objects with a particular and fascinating viewpoint.
Une journée dorée, oil on masonite, 24 x 36 in
Text by Michel Bois
Sophie Lévesque is represented by Galerie Québec Art, 40, rue Notre-Dame, Québec 418-692-8200
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Forms, Volume and Space
“In nature, everything always has a purpose. If you understand this purpose, you no longer need experience.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Nadeau has earthly hands and an eye imbued with poetry. Hands that directly connect with clay, wood and stone. He has always been aware of it. But the man has only given free rein to his creativity over the past twenty years, the hazards of life inevitably leading towards one’s ultimate destiny.
Having studied in the fields of Industrial Relations and Political Sciences at Laval University, the man has now retired from a lengthy career in the hotel industry. He is henceforth polishing shapes that allow him to reach the pinnacle of his personal fulfilment. A passion entwined with bohemian romanticism that forever inhabited him, until the appropriate moment.
Fish, bronze 1/8, 18 cm (L) x 5 cm (W) x 13 cm (H)
Text by Michel Bois
Galerie Abel Badeau : 1499, rue Provancher, Cap-Rouge, Qc 418-262-7230
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Ceramic in artArt in Ceramic
Because it combined the four elements, water, earth, fire and air, ceramics early assumed a symbolic dimension. Beyond playing a utilitarian role, ceramics have, for centuries, demonstrated incredible technical and stylistic creativity. Patrick Le Blond’s works are no exception.
He begins his day by looking out. The sky and the wind will dictate his daily tasks. His workshop overlooks the sea. His eye is drawn into the distance. His hand surrenders to the matter.
Le nid
“Living on an island leads towards refocusing oneself.” Such is how Patrick Le Blond describes his practice since his arrival on the Magdalen Islands almost 20 years ago. A graduate of the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec, the ceramist has never ceased production. Throughout the years, his many travels, his stay in France and his many workshops, Patrick Le Blond has been able to demonstrate the versatility of his working with clay. Although he may today be better known for his large thickly glazed plates with unique motifs, he still retains interest and respect for the small utilitarian pottery he continues to produce on occasions.
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Atelier d’art Patrick Le Blond : 44, chemin Lapierre, Bassin Iles-de-la-Madeleine (Qc)
Galerie d’art La méduse : 638, route 199 Havre-aux-Maisons Iles-de-la-Madeleine (Qc)
Guilde canadienne de métiers d’art du Canada : 1356, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal (QC)
Boutique du Musée des beaux-arts du Québec : Parc des Champs-de-Bataille, Québec (Qc)
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