More stars than ever for the Montreal All-Nighter
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Montréal, January 24, 2006. For the third year in a row, the Musée d’art contemporain is joining with the Montréal High Lights Festival in presenting the Montreal All-Nighter, from 6 p.m. on Saturday, February 25 to 5 a.m. on Sunday, February 26.

The event at the Musée will unfold under the spell of the work Sternenfall (Falling Stars), one of the fifty magnificent pieces featured in the exhibition Heaven – Earth by German artist Anselm Kiefer. Organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the show, as its title indicates, explores the dialogue between heaven and earth. It ponders a civilization in search of spirituality but grappling with the weight of its human condition, beyond cultures and religions.

Also on view will be the exhibition The Collection, a selection of eleven outstanding works in the galleries set aside for the museum’s permanent collection. At the heart of this new hanging is an extraordinary painting by Kiefer, Die Fraüen der Antique (Women of Antiquity), being shown here for the first time in North America. Accompanying it are pieces by Paterson Ewen, Angela Grauerholz, Gary Hill, Arnaud Maggs, John McCracken, Ron Martin, Nam June Paik, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Roland Poulin and Jeff Wall.

As well, movie buffs will have a chance to see the Complete Video Works, 2003-2006, by German artist Thomas Köner, which will be shown continuously all night in BWR Hall. A musician and composer by training, Köner draws us into a temporal experience of exceptional poetic power.

Finally, from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the production company La 2^e Porte à Gauche is reprising its famous Bal Moderne. You are all invited to this dance, where participants, from strict neophytes to seasoned veterans, will learn and perform simple contemporary-dance moves in a fun, festive atmosphere. The evening will also be enlivened by a movement improve competition called Imprudanses.

La 2^e Porte à Gauche is a young, non-profit contemporary-dance production company, made up of Marie Béland, Amélie Bédard-Gagnon, Frédérick Gravel and Pascale Levasseur. The inspiration for its Bal Moderne comes from the concept originated in 1993 by Michel Reilhac.

It’ll be a night when all the stars are out!

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Danielle Legentil                                                    
Media Relations Officer                             
Tel.: (514) 847-6232                                                          
E-mail: danielle.legentil@macm.org