Selected works from the Musée's Collection

Louise Robert
N° 78-148, 1988
Acrylic, graphite and charcoal on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Roselle Caron
Collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

Following the exhibitions Around Memory and Archive (1999-2000), Ideas of Landscape, Landscape of Ideas (2000-2001), Body and Absence (2002-2003), Where? (2004) and Matters of Time and Space (2005), it is now art and writing that will come together in the exhibition De l’écriture [With Writing]. This sixth thematic presentation of works from the permanent collection of the Musée d’art contemporain will run from April 20 to October 8, 2007.

The exhibition showcases more than fifty remarkable works produced between 1965 and 2005 by artists from Québec, elsewhere in Canada and abroad. The connection with writing—be it text, words, letters, signs or calligraphy—is a component common to all these works, which reflect every artistic discipline: painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, assemblage, murals, sculpture, photography, video and installation. The main trends in contemporary art are represented: conceptual art, painting/painting, socially engaged art, Pop art, post-expressionism, etc.

Featured in this new presentation are works by Raymonde April, Pierre Ayot, Gilles Boisvert, Jean-François Bory, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Ian Carr-Harris, Melvin Charney, Greg Curnoe, Manon De Pauw, Christian Dotremont, Charles Gagnon, Raymond Gervais, Jochen Gerz, Betty Goodwin, Takashi Hayashi, Gary Hill, Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, George Legrady, Loïc Le Groumellec, Naomi London, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, André Martin, Roman Opalka, Dennis Oppenheim, Claude Péloquin, Rober Racine, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber, Judith Reigl, Larry Rivers, Louise Robert, Francine Savard, Michael Snow, Jana Sterbak, Ron Terada, Serge Tousignant, Kimio Tsuchiya, Colette Whiten and Ewa Monika Zebrowski.

Point[s] of View Series

Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 6 p.m.
Presentation of the exhibition to the public by Josée Bélisle, curator of the permanent collection.

The exhibition De l'écriture [With Writing] will be toured in different versions across the country.

For more information, please contact Emeren Garcia, Head of Touring Exhibitions at the MACM. Tel.: (514) 847-6288 — Fax: (514) 847-6293 — emeren.garcia@macm.org.