Press release (MAC)<\/p>\n
Montr\u00e9al, November 11, 2015 –<\/strong> The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al (MAC) is pleased to announce that it is Art Public Montr\u00e9al<\/em>\u2019s featured partner for the month in November. This endorsement falls squarely within the Mus\u00e9e\u2019s mission to promote contemporary art in the heart of Montr\u00e9al life, an endeavour that extends well beyond its own walls.<\/p>\n Throughout November, Art Public Montr\u00e9al<\/em> will feature seven works displayed around the city that are part of the MAC\u2019s permanent collection. These works, created for the most part by artists from Qu\u00e9bec, form an impressive and varied set, headlined by three pieces that contribute to the city\u2019s unique character:<\/p>\n La Voie lact\u00e9e<\/em><\/strong> by Genevi\u00e8ve Cadieux<\/strong><\/p>\n Located on the roof of the MAC since its downtown inauguration in 1992, La Voie lact\u00e9e<\/em> by Genevi\u00e8ve Cadieux lights up the Montr\u00e9al sky and guides its dwellers, an improbable beacon over the downtown core below. Night and day, this large, luminous photograph rises like a monument \u2013 free and celestial \u2013 overlooking the city. The artist is interested in female speech and chose to photograph her mother\u2019s lips, thus honouring and feminizing the museum. This strong and seductive presence has become one of the foremost symbols of the metropolis.<\/p>\n La Joute<\/em><\/strong> by Jean-Paul Riopelle<\/strong><\/p>\n The only fountain-sculpture made by Riopelle, La Joute<\/em> is located in the square dedicated to the artist within the Quartier international de Montr\u00e9al. Installed between the Palais des congr\u00e8s and the Centre CDP Capital, the work is a dreamlike detour that celebrates the extraordinary in the very heart of the business world. La Joute<\/em> is made up of 30 bronze elements representing some of the animal and mythological figures that marked Riopelle\u2019s childhood and imagination. The artist also employed alchemy in this work by combining jets of water and circles of fire that can be viewed on summer nights. Between fire and water stand, among others, the Owl, the Fish, the Bear and the Dog. It is a spectacle that incites the elements, a game that invites hurried passersby to slow down before the beauty of the world. Preserved under crates during major roadwork, La Joute<\/em> will re-emerge in all its splendour in the summer of 2016. The work will be unboxed in December 2015.<\/p>\n Nadia ou Le Saut du tremplin<\/em><\/strong> by Marcel Barbeau<\/strong><\/p>\n 1976: Montr\u00e9al hosts the Olympic Games. That same year, Marcel Barbeau creates the sculpture Nadia ou Le Saut du tremplin<\/em> in reference to a certain Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast who thrilled the world and marked the Games by attaining perfection\u2026 and collecting the gold medals that go with it. Located in Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Old Port, the sculpture features bright red lines that are clean and dynamic, honouring the fluidity, lightness and freedom of motion. The work is a crystallization of movement and traces, in the city air, the pirouettes of a young woman who marked Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n Moved by a desire to make public art more accessible, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain has joined 17 other prestigious partners who have pooled their public artworks together for the Art public Montr\u00e9al<\/em> project, thus creating a collection of 600 important pieces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Acknowledgments<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al is a provincially owned corporation funded by the Minist\u00e8re de la Culture et des Communications du Qu\u00e9bec. It receives additional funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts. The museum gratefully acknowledges their support and that of its principal partner, Collection Loto-Qu\u00e9bec. The MAC also thanks its media partners <\/em>La Presse and <\/em>Cogeco.<\/em><\/p>\n Press release (MAC) Montr\u00e9al, November 11, 2015 – The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al (MAC) is pleased to announce that it is Art Public Montr\u00e9al\u2019s featured partner for the month in November. This endorsement falls squarely within the Mus\u00e9e\u2019s mission to promote contemporary art in the heart of Montr\u00e9al life, an endeavour that extends well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":55529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56500,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497\/revisions\/56500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Photo:\u00a0La Voie lact\u00e9e<\/em>, Genevi\u00e8ve Cadieux<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Genevi\u00e8ve Cadieux \/ Galerie Ren\u00e9 Blouin (2015) –\u00a0Cr\u00e9dit photo : Richard-Max Tremblay (2014)<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"