Contemporary art in Quebec City
As we have reported earlier this year, the Museum of fine Arts of Quebec opened the anniversary celebrations with an exhibition of works of artists born in or having passed through Quebec and have left their imprint of the artistic life of the city. They were artists of the past. The museum has not made room for artists of the present who, again are from here or have studied here or again have spent some time in our walls.
Some of the works exhibited deal with pop culture and behind their often humoristic aspect, they in fact tell of the failings of our society, the complexity and contradictions of our aspirations and dreams. Others deal with the material, its diversity, its plastic and formal qualities. Often done with refuse materials, these assemblages bring testimony to the extraordinary creativity of the artists through techniques close to that of the do-it-yourselfer. The human body is the focus of other works: the body, its imprint, the traces left by it, its memory. It is object on the one hand and subject on the other. It is material at times and immaterial at others. Finally, the notion of space is dealt with in a whole series of works: natural spaces, spaces that are constructed, intimate spaces all spaces that affect our daily experiences and our relations with our environment.
The performance, a contemporary art form that is big here in Quebec city, has not been ignored. Scheduled for the 16th and 17th of January and again during the month of April, artists, individually or collectively, will stand up to this creative process based of space, time, movement and bodies in action. These performances will be offered at no cost to the public.
A must see!