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Press release
For immediate release Launch of the fall season at the MAC
Montréal, August 22, 2007. Exhibitions, Projections series, Nocturnes, poetry slam—the launch of the fall season at Musée d’art contemporain will be bold, entrancing and challenging. Exhibitions
Karel Funk Portraits of men that seem straight out of the Renaissance, dressed in high-tech outdoor wear; the technical virtuosity of the Flemish masters, in hyperrealistic paintings that verge on the photographic: intimate portraits of people who do not reveal themselves. The fascination exerted by Karel Funk’s painting stems in large part from unbearable tensions. Come fall under their spell… The exhibition—the artist’s first in a museum—features a dozen portraits produced over the past five years. Karel Funk was born in Winnipeg, where he continues to live and work.
Vik Muniz: Reflex Peanut butter and jelly, chocolate, sugar, wire, dirt and diamonds are just some of the items on the astonishing list of materials used by this artist to create images that he then photographs so as to preserve them. Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has gained international recognition for the photographic works he creates out of everyday materials. These images, inspired by current events, art history or famous figures, are at once familiar and enigmatic. Initially perceived as witty visual statements, his works also question the way visual information is constructed, presented, and then perceived by the viewer. The exhibition comprises 110 photographs, from 1988 to the present, from 27 different series. Vik Muniz: Reflex was organized by the Miami Art Museum, Florida, with support from the MiamiArt Museum’s Annual Exhibition Fund and additional support provided by Duggal Visual Solutions. This will be the exhibition’s only stop in Canada.
The “big cake” is our society of excessive consumption, while the “jumbo spoons” represent twelve monuments to the memory of individuals or entities Thomas Hirschhorn associates with failed utopias: the architecture of Mies van der Rohe, Venice, the moon, guns and fashion, to name only a few. In this installation, the artist offers a space for reflection and commitment with respect to the state of the world, the end of certain twentieth-century utopias and the urgent question of hunger. Born in Switzerland, Hirschhorn has lived and worked in Paris since 1980. Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake (2000), a recent major acquisition of the Musée d’art contemporain, was shown at the Chicago Art Institute when it was first created, and then in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou, in 2005 as part of the group exhibition Dionysiac.
Saskia Olde Wolbers: Trailer, 2005 (10 min) Dutch-born, London-based artist Saskia Olde Wolbers creates narrative video works that pull us into unknown worlds, between dreams and imagination. Trailer starts out somewhere in the vast Amazonian jungle, among the native plants with exotic Spanish and Latin names, and dissolves into the dark red of an Ohio movie theatre. Presented in connection with this year’s Mois de la Photo à Montréal, which explores the question of the narrative in contemporary art.
Mark Lewis: Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside, 2005 (4 min 12 sec) In recent years, Mark Lewis’s work has revealed a connection with the pictorial tradition of experiencing and representing time. In Rush Hour, a work recently acquired by the Musée, Lewis captures the sun at certain times of day when its light stretches out shadows on the ground. A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Mark Lewis lives and works in London.
September 7 / October 5 / November 2 / December 7, 2007 The Musée Nocturnes are now a fixture of the urban landscape. On the first Friday of every month, the museum is open late, from 6 to 9 p.m., for an evening where you can expect the unexpected. Self-guided visits to the galleries or speed tours of the exhibitions; live music; and bar service. On the program: September 7, We Are Wolves—electro-punk-rock music in conjunction with the launch of their latest album Total Magique; October 5, the cosmix mix mix mix aesthetic of Martin Tétreault; November 2, the National Parcs group in a music/video performance; and finally, December 7, revolving around the theme of dreams, with Moment Factory and Moondata. No reservation necessary. Admission with regular Musée ticket or our new $10 Wired card.
Journées de la culture: Slam in connection with De l’écriture As part of the Journées de la culture, a slam poetry event will take place in the galleries housing the exhibition De l’écriture/With Writing. Meet slammers Mario Cholette, Carl Bessette and Ivan Bielinski (IVY) as they give timed performances where the audience is the judge! Free of charge.
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