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Absence et Presence, A dual exhibit of Verona Sorensen and Kakim Goh, Maison de la culture du Plateau, to June 2

by Byron Toben
09.05.2013

This is an art exhibit that should not be missed by anyone interested in the contrast between form and abstraction, memory and experience. Opening under the umbrella of the huge Acess Asie month, its vernissage on May 4 at the Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal drew a packed house, far beyond that of galleries on Sherbrooke or in Westmount.

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Let the Good Times Roll

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The Good Times, by Dan Brault, Galerie Laroche/Joncas, to May 12

by Suzanne Hood
06.05.2013

Dan Brault knows how to have a good time, at least as far as painting is concerned. In his current exhibition of new work at Galerie Laroche/Joncas, aptly titled “The Good Times,” the Quebec-based artist presents a vibrant, candy-coated universe in which cartoonish doodles, geometric patterns, and painterly gestures all bump and bounce against one another.

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Motherhood Issues

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Aimer le Désordre, at La Centrale, to March 17

by Christiana Myers
05.03.2013

To be content as a mother, you’ve got to love disorder. That bit of wisdom is embedded the title of Fréderique Ulman-Gagné’s current exhibition at La Centrale, one of Montreal’s artist-run centres with a feminist mandate. Aimer le Désordre showcases seventeen paintings depicting the artist’s role as a mother. By collaborating with her son, Ulman-Gagné creates dynamic works that speak of balance, routine, and the celebration of motherhood in contemporary art.

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Images de Femmes

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Images de Femmes celebrates 20 years of Mile End brilliance, vernissage March 2, Bibliothèque du Mile End

by Heather Leighton
02.03.2013

The all-woman art collective, Images de femmes, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and will be featuring work by some 70 women artists. The official kick-off is today, Saturday, March 2, at 1:30 pm at the Mile End Library with a reception and vernissage. In addition to a sister art exhibition across the street at AME ART until March 10, workshops given by local artists are scheduled throughout the week, which culminates with Rythmes de femmes, a celebration of women and music at the Rialto Theatre on Sunday, March 10.

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Virtual Jihad

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Wafaa Bilal, Blown Up: Gaming and War, at the MAI

by Zeshaun Saleem
18.12.2012

Right now, 1.2 billion people in our world practice open defecation. Furthermore, nearly 200,000 political prisoners inhabit North Korean’s brutal prison camps and approximately 50,000 Iraqi refugees have been forced into prostitution- many of whom are girls as young as 11, 12. For the rest of us, these particular global inequities are not so disconcerting. Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak. However, for Iraqi born New York artist Wafaa Bilal, such escapes from awareness is not possible. That his feet are in two worlds – of both comfort and conflict – is brilliantly illustrated through his art, an art of activism.

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New Skin for the Old Ceremony

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Romina Sol Catanzaro at the Centro Culturel Simón Bolívar, to December 20

by Lesley McCubbin
14.12.2012

The story of modern art in a nutshell: enter photography, exit the Académie. In the 175-odd years since Louis Daguerre invented his image-capturing process, figurative representation has gone by the wayside, subsumed by a flood of artistic moments, each more outrageous than the last.

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20,000 Leagues Under

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Ed Pien, Under Water, Pierre François Ouellette Art Contemporain, to January 26

by Suzanne Hood
13.12.2012

With remarkable precision and attention to detail, Ed Pien creates a shimmering, hypnotic undersea realm in his current exhibition entitled “Under Water”, on now at François Ouellette Art Contemporain. “Under Water” showcases eight of Pien’s recent papercut works—astoundingly intricate cutouts of 3M reflective film and shoji paper that depict marine life deep beneath the waves—and scores of ink and gouache drawings from his “Deep Water” series.

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An American Shops in Paris

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Once Upon a Time… Impressionism, Musée des beaux-arts, to January 20

by Lesley McCubbin
28.11.2012

To begin at the end: the gift shop, through which we all must pass. A sea of Impressionist-emblazoned objects, from key rings and knickknacks to mugs and mousepads, strangely fitting, since “art-as-commodity” is a theme of Once Upon a Time… Impressionism: how an early 20th Century rebellion laid the groundwork for current-day attitudes toward art and artists, including commercialism and the star system.

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“baby, baby, baby”

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Alexis O’Hara’s La Couvée at HTMlles 10: Risky Business

by Catherine Averback
22.11.2012

I took a friend of mine, Jessica, who’s just moved here in the last few months from small-town Ontario, to Alexis O’Hara’s La Couvée at HTMlles 10: Risky Business festival last Thursday. As we left in a dizzied state, I told her this is what Montreal was. Things like what we’d just seen; that is what makes this place so different from anywhere else; this vast openness to diverse, endless art forms. She’d told me she wanted to go home, and that she loved the big city, but there was something missing here from what she knew at home.

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Conversation Among Masters

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Mark Lang, Galerie de Bellefeuille

by Marianne Ackerman
20.11.2012

More Catholic than the Pope: once the phrase meant something, but as yet another orthodoxy splinters into dissent and disenchantment, we should probably abandon it altogether and get used to a word from art and philosophy: hyperreality. Montreal artist Mark Lang is a contemporary master.

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Zero Sum

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Ryoji Ikeda, DHC/ART, to November 18

by Lesley McCubbin
10.11.2012

Admittedly, as a painter, I may be a little under-qualified to comment on this show. Yet I’m going to urge you, dear readers, to go and see it. Yes, urge. Because, despite my relative techno-illiteracy, something in me is dimly aware that this show is capital-I Important. I say that without irony. Ryoji Ikeda, the cool, minimal Japanese-born, Parisian-based composer/visual artist whose two-part show continues through November 18 at DHC/ART, is addressing some of the major questions of our times, using an incredibly—some might say ‘unbearably’—sophisticated language to do so.

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Long Day’s Journey

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Janet Biggs, Musée d'art contemporain, to January 6

by Suzanne Hood
06.11.2012

Brooklyn-based video artist Janet Biggs is known for creating thrilling, and sometimes terrifying, video portraits of lone individuals pursuing extreme activities in harsh environments. In her exhibition currently showing at the Musée de Art Contemporain de Montreal (MACM), Biggs stays true to form by transporting her viewers to the frozen landscape of the far north, and to a dioxide-billowing sulfur mine in Indonesia.

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Rising to the Occasion

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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto

by Kallee Lins
02.10.2012

While I would rarely suggest that Montréal’s pulsing art scene should be taking cues from Toronto, Hogtown’s Nuit Blanche this past Saturday was a great success thanks to people who never get their due credit… the curators. The event went out of its way to demystify the curatorial process by dividing exhibits into various zones, each with its own curator and thematic focus. While the star artworks of the night were found at Museum for the End of the End of the World curated by Janine Marchessault and Michael Prokopow and presented at City Hall, I ventured a bit farther east to spend the night in Zone C.

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Gotham Goes Dystopic

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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto

by Shawn Katz
01.10.2012

For my first Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto last year, I took to Queen Street West – the “Plateau of Toronto,” I’d been told – and made my way east towards the centre. Mistake, I eventually found out. Contrary to Montreal’s all-night art fest, the Toronto edition is mostly clustered around the downtown core, where [...]

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Sounds like Art

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Nuit Blanche, Toronto

by Marianne Ackerman
01.10.2012

Two a.m. Saturday night, Bay St. is thoroughly occupied. A human island in the middle of the street dances to a thumping rock beat. Line-ups at caravans offering food and free coffee are dozens deep. The rest of us slide by like a human snake under neon and starlight. Insiders call it Nuit – (sounds [...]

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