Museums abound, follow the guide!

On August 6, the death of art historian and artist Marcel Saint-Pierre recalled the immense research work he had carried out on the work of Serge Lemoyne (1941-1998), among others for the retrospective of his work presented at the Musée du Québec in 1988-1989.

We find this same Lemoyne in the spotlight this fall with an exhibition that could also be significant for the study of his work and for our artistic history.

Entitled Lemoyne. Off-side, edited by the curator Eve-Lyne Beaudry, it will allow us to return to her precursor art of happenings.

The more time passes, the more resonance Lemoyne’s work gains. Unfortunately, his multidisciplinary work has not benefited from any retrospective since his death over 23 years ago.

The exhibition at National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec(MNBAQ) will certainly be one of the back-to-school events.

In any case, this is what the catalog contains, including texts signed by the curator, but also by Jocelyne Lepage, Serge Allaire, Ève Lamoureux and Robert Enright. From October 28.

Quebec artists and American painter

To the Molinari Foundation, it will be necessary to go to the presentation of Gaucher, Molinari, Tousignant: around Barnett Newman. This event developed by Gilles Daigneault and Margarida Mafra will show the proximity between the approach of Quebec artists and that of the famous American painter. It is a meeting on September 30.

Always on the side of returning to the history of Canadian art, it will be necessary to go to the side of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) to see the photographs of a somewhat forgotten portrait painter. For decades, Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), photographer of political, scientific and artistic celebrities (Churchill, Einstein, Picasso…) himself enjoyed worldwide notoriety. Karsh’s last exhibition at the MMFA dates back to 1992. More than 100 photos of the artist will this time be in the spotlight under the leadership of curator Hilliard T. Goldfarb. It is to watch, from September 22.

Museums focused on today’s world

This museum season will also and above all be that of contemporary art. Also at the MMFA, the chief curator, Mary-Dailey Desmarais, presents an exhibition on the notion of listening, exchanges, dialogues, reconciliation.

A very relevant subject while deafness towards the other often wins. Entitled How long does it take for one voice to reach the other?, this presentation will allow exchanges between ancient art and current art.

With works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Charles Gagnon, Auguste Rodin, Betty Goodwin, Jusepe de Ribera, Nick Cave, Yves Gaucher, Geneviève Cadieux, Nadia Myre, Shilpa Gupta, Stanley February…

Stanley February will also be in the spotlight in two other museums, at the MAC LAU in Saint-Jérôme (from November 7) and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (from December 2).

The presentation text of the Contemporary art museum of the Laurentians present Possible lives | Menm viyé tintin as “a participatory work, based on Morse code and distress signals, which questions the conditions of visual artists, the relationships they maintain with galleries and the art world”.

The curators Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre and Maud Jacquin will also take a socio-artistic look at the living conditions in our current world.

In Smile! Emotions at work, they will showcase how changes in the world of employment have an impact on our behaviors and our relationships, while leading us to reflect on the twisted way the economic system has made of emotions a “ exploitable capital ”.

With works from around twenty artists, including Marjolaine Bourdua, Pierre Dorion, Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière, Melanie Gilligan, Liz Magic Laser, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Julien Prévieux, Laure Prouvost, Pilvi Takala, Carl Trahan… From October 2 to Joliette Art Museum.

The Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment, in Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, will offer a solo by Andreas Rutkauskas orchestrated by Geneviève Chevalier. Entitled Refuge: after the fire, this multidisciplinary exhibition including photography, video and even immersive technologies, will plunge us into the issue of resilience associated with forest fires. From September 26.

The use of cyber weapons against militant citizens

Note also that the Museum of Modern Art inaugurates its spaces at Place Ville-Marie with Forensic Architecture, contagion of terror, event presented in collaboration with filmmaker Laura Poitras, recognized among others for Citizenfour (2015), documentary about Edward Snowden.

This exhibition will deal with the use of cyber weapons against militant citizens. To watch … unless it is this exhibition that is watching us. From November.

The title is enigmatic, and the subject in the spirit of the time … The Relic Explorer: Where We Come From, You and I Know We’re Not Here Forever by Larry Achiampong, at the Phi Foundation, will deal with collective memory in relation to colonialism and postcolonialism. It is Victoria Carrasco and Cheryl Sim who make the police station. From September 9.

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