On the first anniversary of Leonard Cohen\u2019s passing, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al invites Montreal and Leonard Cohen enthusiasts to come together at the foot of Silo No.\u00a05 to commemorate the remarkable wordsmith.<\/p>\n
The MAC will be inaugurating a silent, majestic installation by artist Jenny Holzer as part of its Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che en toute chose \/ A Crack in Everything<\/a><\/em> exhibition, which will open at the MAC on November 9, 2017. Presented by CBC\/Radio\u2011Canada, the exhibition is part of the official program for Montreal\u2019s 375th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n The MAC has commissioned neo-conceptual American artist Jenny Holzer to create a piece consisting of a giant projection of select phrases from Cohen\u2019s poems, songs, and other writings\u2014in both French and English. This unique and ephemeral work will be visible for five nights only, from 6\u00a0p.m. to 11\u00a0p.m., starting on November 7 and going until November\u00a011.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unusual for the MAC to venture beyond its walls and take over an urban space to give Montrealers a one-of-a-kind, public, collective experience. It was important for us to organize a sizeable, free event for Montrealers on the occasion of Montreal\u2019s 375th anniversary. It is also a moment we wanted to offer anyone wanting to mark the first anniversary of Leonard Cohen\u2019s death. In this sense, Jenny Holzer\u2019s majestic piece is a heartfelt, creative and touching silent tribute to the poet who left us so recently.\u201d<\/em> Jenny Holzer has projected light onto buildings and landscapes since the early 1990s, creating large-scale, text-based installations, which seek to illuminate and reveal. Taking inspiration from the urban projections realized on the Castel Sant\u2019Angelo in Rome, on the pyramid of the Louvre in Paris and on London\u2019s City Hall, Jenny Holzer revisits the fine line between the written word and the image, thus transforming the text into the object of observation. The integration of Cohen\u2019s writing into such large-scale work will also offer an alternative perspective on the author\u2019s original underlying meanings and messages. This creation will present a temporary tribute marked by a deep admiration for the Montreal poet on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of his death and the 375th anniversary of his hometown.<\/p>\n Click here for a clip<\/a> of For Leonard Cohen<\/em> Opening: Tuesday, November 7, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m, Silo no. 5 To discover the artist’s work:\u00a0http:\/\/projects.jennyholzer.com\/projections<\/p>\n On the first anniversary of Leonard Cohen\u2019s passing, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al invites Montreal and Leonard Cohen enthusiasts to come together at the foot of Silo No.\u00a05 to commemorate the remarkable wordsmith. The MAC will be inaugurating a silent, majestic installation by artist Jenny Holzer as part of its Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":64714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64717","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\/64717","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=64717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64718,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717\/revisions\/64718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artpublicmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2014\u00a0John Zeppetelli, Director and Chief Curator at the MAC, and co-curator of the Leonard Cohen: Une br\u00e8che en toute chose \/ A Crack in Everything<\/em> exhibition.<\/p>\n
\n*\u00a0Please note the real artwork will be silent.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Join us at the corner of McGill and de la Commune in Old Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\nSource – \u00a0press release october 2017, Mus\u00e9e d’art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>
\nPhoto credit: Georges Fok, with permission from the artist<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"