If you’ve embraced the multiple celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the signing of Refus global, you may well be paying a visit to Ottawa this fall. From October 27, the Museum of Fine Arts presents Riopelle, at the crossroads, an imposing retrospective which brings together 130 works and which focuses on the artist’s travels, “wide open spaces” and his love of nature. Let’s face it, in a fairly quiet fall return to the visual arts, expectations are high for this vast exhibition which chronologically recounts five decades of Riopelle’s creation.
A recurring theme next fall, it will also be a question of ecologies in Joliette. The Biophilia exhibition will bring together the work of six artists from September 30, including that of Quebec artist Katherine Melançon, who incorporates living things into her pieces. Ferns, in the specific case of his Vers un Parlement du vivant III, which is a reflection on the cycle of life presented in a season when part of nature is dying.
Quebec art will be highlighted this fall in Quebec City with the presentation of the work of the five winners of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Prize, namely María Ezcurra, Anahita Norouzi, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Eve Tagny and Sara A. Tremblay. Various media and styles; from October 26 to January 7, 2024.
A little later in the season, the Parc des Champs-de-Bataille museum will present Voir la nuit, a journey which, as its name suggests, will make us discover the museum in a different light, and with our senses. normally less in demand at the museum.
Deprived of its vast permanent collection – locked – and its headquarters (the museum is closed due to upcoming expansion works), the MAC had the good idea to partner with other places this season. We will be able to see an immersive installation by Cyprien Gaillard, Nightlife, at the Cinémathèque (from September 7 to November 5) or a video project by Jeremy Shaw at the Darling Foundry (from December 12). At its location in Place Ville Marie, the MAC has programmed Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia, an exhibition that documents the group’s actions in Russia as well as the reactions of the state. From October 25.
Mother Memory Cellophane is the event of the fall at the McCord Stewart. An exhibition co-produced by MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, directed by Séamus Gallagher, which was inspired by the presentation of Miss Chemistry in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair. A living female model was then used to launch the nylon stocking. In addition, the exhibition Montreal in the making, which brings together a hundred works by James Duncan, continues throughout the year, until April 21. You can see the urban landscapes that the Montreal painter made in the 19th century, enhanced by 3D effects.
This fall, the Pointe-à-Callière museum is continuing its temporary exhibitions. First with his exhibition on Egypt, Three thousand years on the Nile, which brings together 300 objects from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. Until October 15. Then with his exhibition Coups de coeur! Our collections are on display, which brings together around 400 objects from the museum arranged in a theatrical scenography. Furniture, clothing, jewelry, toys, tools, books, etc. that tell the story of Montreal and its inhabitants, including Expo 67 and the 1976 Olympic Games. Until next January 7.
