The Winter Season
3 new exhibitions

Montréal, November 21, 2006. Three exhibitions, a Projections series, meetings with artists, a Montreal All-Nighter – a winter season at the Musée d’art contemporain full of invention, playfulness and poetry.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier
Jérôme Fortin
Guy Ben-Ner: Treehouse Kit

February 10 to April 22, 2007

Brilliantly inventive, they have a passion for the everyday and a talent for transformation: simultaneously, three separate exhibitions, three artists. Jean-Pierre Gauthier delves deep into the aural and metaphorical potential of found objects: pipe connectors, funnels and electric wires are metamorphosed in an extraordinary exploration of order and chaos, permanence and fragility, utility and uselessness. Jérôme Fortin’s work invokes oft-repeated gestures, patience and slowness. Using ordinary printed material (manga comics, Yellow Pages, maps), the artist meticulously and tirelessly folds and glues, creating murals out of paper screens and turning seriality into an object of fascination. Everything is designed to slow the spectator’s gaze. For his part, Guy Ben-Ner offers his comments on our readymade society in a hilarious re-reading of the story of Robinson Crusoe: thanks to an ingenious modular system, the shipwreck victim’s tree is taken apart and rebuilt as furniture!

Projections - Milutin Gubash: Lots
January 24 to March 4, 2007

The Projections series gets underway again with a program devoted to Milutin Gubash. Entitled Lots, it includes all the video works made by the artist since 2004. With disarming simplicity, Gubash explores the complexity of our relations with those around us, the places we inhabit and the strange events that sometimes occur there.

Meetings with Artists

All these artists will be taking turns to meet the public: Milutin Gubash at 5 p.m. and Guy Ben-Ner at 5:30 p.m. (in English) on Friday, February 9, 2007; Jean-Pierre Gauthier on Wednesday, February 14, at 6 p.m. (in French); and Jérôme Fortin on Wednesday, February 21, at 6 p.m. (in French). As part of the Point[s] of View series, which offers members of the public the chance to meet Musée curators, there will be a guided tour of the Jean-Pierre Gauthier exhibition by Pierre Landry on March 14, 2007 at 6 p.m., and of the Jérôme Fortin exhibition by Sandra Grant Marchand on March 28, 2007 at 6 p.m.

Montreal All-Nighter

Night-birds take note: the 2007 edition of the Montreal All-Nighter will be taking place at the Musée on March 3-4, from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Visitors will be able to enjoy full Musée programming, as well as brand-new performances by Milutin Gubash and Women with Kitchen Appliances. Finally, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and several former collaborators will be presenting a concert-performance on March 21 at 8 p.m.

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Source and information:                                           
Danielle Legentil                                                       
Media Relations Officer                                            
Tel.: (514) 847-6232                                                 
E-mail: danielle.legentil@macm.org