From May 1 to November 29, 2015
MONTRÉAL, ARRONDISSEMENT DE LACHINE, le 12 mai 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Lake-like, an exhibition curated by René Viau, presents works by seven guest artists in counterpoint with selected pieces from the Musée de Lachine art collection. The evocative tour, ranging from landscape tradition to contemporary exploration, opens at the Musée from May 1 to November 29, 2015.
Visitors to Musée de Lachine are frequently awestruck by the beauty of the site. The majesty of the river that borders the grounds astounds the eye and gives rise to a sense of plenitude, which the curator, René Viau, brings into the Musée galleries. The works assembled in Lake-like attest the powerful attraction that natural landscapes continue to hold for artists.
While giving viewers the opportunity to reconnect with memories of lakeside afternoons, the exhibition is also designed to expand perspectives and depart from pictorial traditions. To this end, art critic Viau opens the show with a large 1965 canvas by Edmund Alleyn from the Musée collection, setting the overall tone. From work to work, landscape is represented by different means, often breaking with the past, and the aesthetic and conceptual approaches vary.
Lake-like is a timeless space in which sketches from the 1940s, chosen for their picturesque qualities, rub shoulders with recent works by Sarah Bertrand-Hamel, Chih-Chien Wang and Michael Merrill. These artists develop unexpected viewpoints, observe the structural or changing aspects of their elements and treat their subject matter in unconventional ways. Other guest artists, Sébastien Worsnip, Raymonde April and Geneviève Chevalier, offer a representation of reality that delves beneath its surface, fragments it and reconfigures place history.
Assembled under a lake theme, works by some thirty artists speak to each other. For example, the prints, painting and installation by Jean Paul Riopelle, Fernand Leduc and Linda Covit echo the photographs by Jessica Auer. Together, the array of exhilarating creations invites the pleasure of contemplation and discovery, addressing both familiar shores and unexplored horizons scrutinized by different generations of artists.
Through November 29, at Musée de Lachine, located at 1 Chemin du Musée, at the corner of Saint-Patrick Street.
Information: 514 634-3478 or www.museedelachine.com.
SOURCE Musée de Lachine
Isabelle Lessard, 514 634-3478
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