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Press release
For immediate release 2008: A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION AND ROCK & ROLL FOR THE MAC
Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme This summer, the Musée will be launching an exciting new initiative with the first edition of the Triennial of Québec Art, an exhibition devoted to the current state of contemporary Québec art. To be held every three years, the Triennial is the result of extensive field research by the Musée’s curators, who combed numerous exhibitions and artists’ studios over the last year looking for the very best in contemporary Québec art. The works of the more than 30 artists selected will be on view from May 24 to September 7, 2008. For the first time in the Musée’s history, the exhibition will be presented in all the museum’s galleries. Mirroring the subject matter of the various works, the exhibition title is inspired by Lavoisier’s famous saying: Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée. Tout se transforme. (Nothing is lost, nothing is created. Everything is transformed.) All of today’s artistic media will be featured: painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. It’s the most ambitious Québec contemporary art exhibition of its kind ever presented. Josée Bélisle, Mark Lanctôt, Pierre Landry and chief curator Paulette Gagnon are responsible for this exhibition. Lesley Johnstone is the project coordinator.
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 In the fall, the Musée will be literally electrified by the exhibition, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. What’s more, Montréal will be the only Canadian stop for this exhilarating event. Organized by Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Sympathy for the Devil examines the history of the relationship between avant-garde art and rock music over the past 40 years. From Andy Warhol’s legendary involvement with The Velvet Underground in New York, to its London equivalent with Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and The Beatles, and culminating in new works by artists such as Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, and Rirkrit Tiravanije, Sympathy for the Devil is the most comprehensive presentation of work arising from the intersection of these two cultural entities. The exhibition is comprised of over 100 works (installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings, videos) created by 60 artists and groups, subdivided into six themes corresponding to the musical scenes in New York, the United Kingdom, Western Europe, the American West Coast (particularly Los Angeles), the Midwest and the rest of the world (more specifically Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Thailand). The title, borrowed from the eponymous Rolling Stones song and Jean-Luc Godard’s film One One/Sympathy for the Devil, is emblematic of this exchange between the two cultural forms.
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