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ARTS THIS WINTER Visual Arts by JULIE BEAULIEU VALÉRIE BLASS, FEMME PANIER PHOTO Max Tremblay TOP RIGHT: Lyonel Feininger, Façades I, Lunebourg BOTTOM RIGHT: in Traffic: Theodore Wan, Bridine Scrub (For General Surgery) What does this winter’s 2012 artistic and cultural scene have in store for us? As the cold-weather season approaches, here are some exhibitions I suggest you see this winter, along with a reminder of what is currently on show this fall. Enjoy your visit! For the first time in almost 50 years, Quebeckers will be able to see the first North American Lyonel Feininger retrospective (Jan. 20 to May 13). “Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus” at Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal is a comprehensive panorama of the works of the painter featuring his early satirical cartoons, comic strips, little-known photographs and hand-made wood figures, emblematic depictions of carnival scenes, architecture and seascapes. Feininger was not just an artist, but also a musician, a talented violinist and composer. Music, which played an influential role in the work of the artist, holds a special place in this exhibition. The Montreal Musée d’art contemporain makes way for women artists. The “Ghada Amer” exhibition (Feb. 2 to April 22) presents some of the most significant works of this Cairo-born American artist. “Egyptian artist Ghada Amer is inspired by pornography, popular culture and ancient legends to evoke womanly pleasure, obsessive desire and erotic awareness,” says Marie Christine Eyene, art critic and freelance curator. Also on show at the Musée d’art contemporain is the exhibition “Wangechi Mutu” featuring the museum’s recent acquisition, the installation Moth Girls (Feb. 2 to April 22). The remarkable work by Mutu, a Nairobi-born New York artist, merges poetic symbolism with socio-political critique anchored in the memory of a land, its roots and ancient traditions in a unique collection whose aesthetic and political issues are still current. Still at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal artist Valérie Blass will be honoured (Feb. 2 to April 22) in an exhibition that will unveil her newest works alongside some of her earlier ones. Jointly curated by several curators from across Canada, “Traffic: Conceptual art in Canada – 1965-1980” will be shown concurrently in Toronto, Guelph and London and at Concordia University’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Jan. 13 to Feb. 25). It is the first major exhibition on the influence and diversity of Canadian Conceptual Art. LSM • “Up Close and Personal with the Caillebotte Brothers. Painter and Photographer: an inside look at France in the age of Impressionism” exhibition invites you to an intimate meeting between two views, two visions. Although photography was still in its early stages in the 19 th century, Martial produced at least 150 unedited photographs, which are hung alongside some 40 paintings produced by his brother Gustave—a patron and great friend of the Impressionists—including Degas, Monet and Renoir. On exhibition at Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec until January 8. • Also at the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec: the exhibitions “Napoleon Bourassa. A Quest for the Ideal” (until January 15) and “Steichen. Glamour – Fashion and Celebrities. The Condé Nast Years – 1923-1937” (until Feb. 5). • “Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye” is the first retrospective exhibition of the Montreal-born NOW SHOWING G. CAILLEBOTTE, UN BALCON artist Dorothea Rockburne, bringing together about 50 of her works. Following her studies at Montreal’s École des beaux-arts and the MBAM, she continued her training at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, notably with Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov and Esteban Vicente. On exhibition until April 8 at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, where the Quebec public will discover the development of a Montreal artist’s abstraction abroad. There is no entry fee. • The 50 or so portraits of Quebec artists painted by Richard-Max Tremblay since 1983 are currently on display in the exhibition “Tête-à-tête” at Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal until February 5. It is worth mentioning that the MBAM collection, which has grown significantly since 1980, has resulted in the exhibition, “Quebec and Canadian Art 1980- 2010” and includes some of its outstanding acquisitions. TRANSLATION: LYNN TRAVERS 52 DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012
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