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COMING EVENTS

As part of Photoquai, the New World Visual Arts Biennale

UNMASKING
Arthur Renwick, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas
Curators : Martha Langford and Sherry Farrell Racette

Opening September 22 at 6 PM
Exhibition: September 23, 2009 - January 29, 2010
Opening Hours: From Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 6 PM, Thursday until 7 PM.
Free Admisison

Centre culturel canadien - Canadian Cultural Centre
5, rue de Constantine - 75007 Paris
Tel : 01 44 43 21 90

Download the Press Release in PDF.
http://www.canada-culture.org/communiques/2272/

Jeff Thomas, Father and Daughter in Toronto, Broadview Avenue (2007),
inkjet printing, 60.96 x 81.28 cm, courtesy: Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

RECENT EVENTS

Discussion (in French) organized by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and Artexte

Writing Art: from Payant to the Present
Jennifer Allen & François Dion

Public presentation in French
24 septembre, 15h to 17h
Concordia University, 1515, Ste-Catherine West, Montreal, room EV 3.719
(Between Guy and Mackay, 3rd floor, entrance on Mackay)

In the first part of this presentation, Allen will describe the results of
her research on René Payant's donation of exhibition catalogues to Artexte.
An art historian and a critic, Payant privileged a theoretical and
interdisciplinary approach to writing about art, whether classicist
painting, photography installation or feminist video. What role did the
exhibition and the catalogue play in his writing? By comparing Payant's
reviews with the catalogues he collected, Allen will show how the catalogue
comes to function as documentation, aide-mémoire and site of confrontation.

The second part of this presentation takes the form of a discussion about
contemporary strategies for writing about art between Allen and François
Dion, the director of Artexte. Documenting Payant's oeuvre, which is caught
between texts about artworks and also images of artworks, calls for a new
way of writing art history: iconographism. While considering recent examples
- from W.G. Sebald's use of photographs in novels to the illustrated blog -
Allen and Dion will also discuss attitudes towards catalogues among
contemporary artists in both Montreal and Berlin.

Jennifer Allen
A graduate of Université de Montréal and McGill University, Jennifer Allen
has lived in Berlin since 1996. Her writings ­ reviews, essays and reports -
have been published in Artforum, Frieze, Parkett, Metropolis M, Afterall,
Frog, SITE. Her most recent work includes essays on Carsten Höller
(Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), Nairy Baghramian (Bidoun), Bojan
Sarcevic (Frieze) and Mario Testino (Philipps de Pury). In Germany Allen
writes regularly for the magazines Zitty and Monopol as well as for the
newspaper Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Artexte would like to thank the CCA, CALQ, CAM, the Ministère des affaires internationales du Québec. Artexte acknowledges the support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.

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The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of Concordia University present

AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL SNOW
Tuesday, 30 September at 19:00

Screening:
Wavelength (1967)
WVLNT. Wavelength for Those Who Don't Have the Time (1967/2003)
SSHTOORRTY (2005)

There are, in the history of film, a very few artists whose work, in its radical purity and incisiveness strikes one as paradigmatic... Among them is Michael Snow, whose Wavelength, some four years old, is now a celebrated film, a turning point for many in the history of the medium as in the maker's own development.
- Annette Michelson, "Toward Snow," 1971

Michael Snow will introduce the films and discuss them with the audience.


J.A. de Seve Theatre, McConnell Library Building, Concordia University
1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal - Metro: Guy-Concordia


MICHAEL SNOW: The astonishingly varied and prolific output of Canadian artist Michael Snow spans over fifty years, including a decade in New York during which he expanded his practice from painting and sculpture to experimental film and photography. Impossible to categorize, Michael Snow has worked at the leading edge of virtually all media, including sound and holography, in parallel with his performances and recordings as an improvisational musician.

Organized by the Department of Art History, with the generous support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of Concordia University, the Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies, and the Chateau Versailles Hotel.

The event is free of charge. Everyone is welcome.

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Conference series by François-Marc Gagnon at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 2008, in English. At the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium, Michal and Renata Hornstein pavilion, 1379 Sherbrooke Street West, on Wednesday at 3:30 PM.

AGES OF LIFE IN CANADIAN ART

7 May
Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Art

In Quebec painting, we see a slow secularization of the theme of the child. The nineteenth-century depictions of the Virgin and the Christ child and the Holy Family give way to images of children seen in the context of the middle-class family. Antoine Plamondon and Théophile Hamel portrayed couples and their children, associated either with the mother, or sometimes the father,
as in Hamel’s work.

14 May
Childhood in Twentieth-Century Canadian Art

It was only in the contemporary era that children and adolescents were depicted on their own, outside their family context. They became individuals in their own right in the works of the Beaver Hall Group painters and in those of Muhlstock, Roberts, Pellan, Borduas and Jean Paul Lemieux.

21 May
Adulthood in Canadian Art

The philosophers Deschavanne and Tavoillot, in their beautiful book Philosophie des ages de la vie, say that adulthood is characterized by experience, responsibility and authenticity. We will examine how the representation of adults in the works of John Lyman, Goodridge Roberts, Louis Muhlstock and Stanley Cosgrove conforms to these values.

4 June
Age and Masculinity in Canadian Art

The ancients pondered how long a person in authority (in politics, teaching or the sciences) should remain at his post, so that society might benefit from his wisdom without regretting his senility. Our painters often dealt with this dilemma while creating official portraits (Ozias Leduc and Suzor-Coté in particular). But these same artists also executed portraits of old peasants as symbols of their attachment to the land. In each of these instances, the artists were reflecting on old age in men.

11 June
Age and Femininity in Canadian Art

Old age in women poses a specific problem, especially in the genre that wants to relive the “good old days” (paintings by Massicotte, Suzor-Coté and Ozias Leduc). What happens to the representation of older women in a culture like ours that values youth almost exclusively?

18 June
The Eternal in Northwest Coast Indigenous Canadian Art

The First Nations had a particular vision of the great beyond, because of their veneration of ancestors and because of their belief in spirits. This lecture will focus specifically on the art of Canada’s West Coast. Ancestral masks will serve to illustrate the break between the origins of this culture and the present day.

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April 18th, 2008

MONTREAL AS PALIMPSEST: ARCHITECTURE, COMMUNITY, CHANGE
Conference in the history of architecture

Shaughnessy House, Canadian Centre for Architecture

13:00-18:00
Closing keynote address 18:30
Dr. Annie Gérin
Department of Art History, UQAM

The public is welcome

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May 9, 2007
Conference series by François-Marc Gagnon at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 2007. At the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium, Michal and Renata Hornstein pavilion, 1379 Sherbrooke Street West, on Wednesday at 3:30 PM.

The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Strange in Canadian Art
This year's lecture series on Canadian Art coincides with the Emily Carr retrospective exhibition organized jointly by the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. The series will benefit from the exhibition in that nearly all the lectures will discuss the themes of the beautiful, the sublime and the strange in Canadian art in relation to Emily Carr. The French series scheduled to begin on Wednesday March 28 has been cancelled, the English series begins on Wednesday May 9.

BEAUTY
Wednesday May 9 at 3:30 pm, in English
It has long been thought that the imitation of nature was the best way for us to understand beauty. This notion will be explored through an examination of the work of Canadian landscape painters, including Clarence Gagnon, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Emily Carr and David Milne.

THE SUBLIME
Wednesday May 16 at 3:30 pm, in English
Several nineteenth-century painters and photographers tried to express the sublime by depicting waterfalls, raging rivers, forests and towering mountains. Closer to our own time, Lawren Harris and Emily Carr sought another way to express the sublime.

PROPORTIONS
Wednesday May 23 at 3:30 pm, in English
Traditionally, painters have sought beauty in the proportions of the human body through the study of nudes. Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Ozias Leduc, Stanley Cosgrove, Louis Muhlstock and Alfred Pellan all rendered nudes to various degrees, although not Emily Carr, who was far too prudish!

THE UNCANNY
Wednesday May 30 at 3:30 pm, in English
The concept of the uncanny was developed by Freud to describe our reaction to some less familiar forms of art. Art of the First Nations, especially those of the West Coast, seemed “strange” to the artists, like Paul Kane, who discovered it. Emily Carr on the other hand, had a mission to render it familiar, while Jack Shadbolt and Brian Jungen strove to preserve its character of strangeness.

CONVULSIVE BEAUTY
Wednesday June 6 at 3:30 pm, in English
André Breton said, “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all,” thereby defining the new approach to beauty advocated by Surrealism. We will examine the Surrealist view of  beauty in the work of Alfred Pellan, Léon Bellefleur, Paul-Émile Borduas and Jock MacDonald, all of whom identified with Surrealism.

ABSTRACT BEAUTY
Wednesday June 13 at 3:30 pm, in English
Guido Molinari and David Sorensen each in their own way defined themselves in relation to geometric abstraction. Emily Carr did not paint any abstract work as such, but her sense of rhythm and movement in painting can be qualified as “abstract”.

 

ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS:
Narration and Contemporary Canadian Art
Lectures are presented free of charge at Concordia University’s Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, at 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, room EV-1.605.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2007, AT 6:00 PM
The Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Art:The Discontinuities of Memory and Narrative Discourse
Loren Lerner, Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007, AT 6:00 PM
Mobile Cinema and the Fictionalization of Space
Olivier Asselin, Professor, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007, AT 6:00 PM
Never Let the Truth Stand in the Way of a Good Story
Kelly Mark, artist, Toronto, Ontario

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007, AT 6:00 PM
The Narrativity of the Image
Marie Fraser, Art historian and independant curator

December 5, 2006
Public lecture by François-Marc Gagnon, Borduas’ Refus global and Automatist Painting, for the alumni of the department of Art History, Concordia University, 7:30 PM (in English) EV1-605.

November 30, 2006
Symposium, Antoine Plamondon: De face et de profil. McCord Museum, Montreal, in collaboration with the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute of Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University (in French).
Download complete program (PDF)

Plamondon and His Times : Portraying the Winners.
Ramsay Cook, Université de Toronto

Le peintre, le tableau et le spectateur compétent.
Didier Prioul, Université Laval

Signé A.P : la question du dessin chez Plamondon.
Mario Béland, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Download Presentation (PDF)

Les stations d’un chemin de croix : une correspondance éclairante.
Jacques Des Rochers, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Plamondon's self-portrait and its relationship to Venetian self-portraiture.
Sandra Paikowsky, Université Concordia

Antoine Plamondon, physionomiste
François-Marc Gagnon, chaire Jarilowsky, Université Concordia

Antoine Plamondon et la presse : de la chronique à la polémique.
Laurier Lacroix, Université du Québec à Montréal

November 26, 2006 
Symposium on Borduas’ legacy presented by the Art History graduate students of Concordia University as part of the exhibition, Metro Borduas. FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. EV 1-605. (in English and French).
Download complete program (PDF)

November 24 and 25, 2006
Symposium, Re-Crafting Tradition.  Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, Montréal (in English and French).
Download complete program (PDF)

November 23, 2006: presentation by François-Marc Gagnon entitled, Pourquoi faut-il sauver le patrimoine religieux du Québec? as part of the symposium, Le patrimoine religieux du Québec : Éducation et transmission du sens. Le Gésu – Centre de créativité, 1200, rue Bleury, Montréal, 11.00 AM – 12 :30 PM (in French).
For the complete program: www.colloquepatrimoinereligieux.qc.ca 

November 18, 2006
Presentation by François-Marc Gagnon entitled, L’immense blague de l’art moderniste au Pen & Pencil Club, le 28 avril 1939, as part of the symposium, Clarence A. Gagnon and Edwin Holgate.
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (in French and English).
Download complete program (PDF)

November 8, 2006
Public lecture by François-Marc Gagnon entitled, Le manifeste Refus global de Borduas arrivait-il trop tôt? Commission de la Capitale nationale, as part of the series,  Tribunal de l’histoire 2006-2007 at Chapelle du Séminaire de Québec, 5:30 and 7:30 PM (in French).

March 29th – May 17th, 2006
The subject of François-Marc Gagnon’s 2006 lecture series at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is the Portrait in Canadian Art.  The French series will debut March 29th, followed by the English series May 17th.

May 26, 2006
THE ABSTRACT EDGE
Robert Davidson and Contemporary Aboriginal Arts Practice

Friday, May 26, 2006 from 12:30 to 4:30 pm - in English and French
Key note speaker: Robert Davidson

Organized in conjunction with the Department of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts,
Concordia University and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in
Canadian Art, the symposium will bring together artists, curators and
academics from across Canada to discuss Aboriginal contemporary art.

Invited speakers:
Guy Sioui Durand
Mattiusi Iyaituk
Sylvie Poirier
Sherry Farrell Racette
Carmen Robertson

For more information or to register:
(514) 398-7100 ext. 305
info@mccord.mcgill.ca
www.mccord-museum.qc.ca

December 1, 2005
The Institute was proud to be a co-sponsor of the symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood at the McCord Museum.
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/

October 2, 2005 to January 29, 2006
Dr. Gagnon was a co-organizer of the exhibition Leduc, Borduas et le paysage de Saint-Hilaire at the Musée d’art de Mont-Saint-Hilaire.
http://www.mamsh.qc.ca/

Dr. Gagnon and two of the Institute’s research associates, Denis Longchamps  and Louise Dupont-Tanguay, wrote essays for the accompanying publication Le sage et le rebelle.

September 30, 2005 and October 1, 2005:
The Institute was pleased to be a co-sponsor of the symposium Collecting and Exhibiting Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/activites/etudiants/activites_36.html

September 23, 2005
The Institute co-hosted the launch of Martha Langford’s book Image & Imagination (McGill-Queen’s University Press) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
http://www.moisdelaphoto.com/index_2005.html

SUMMER 2005

The Institute was a co-sponsor of the Sam Borenstein and His Milieu lecture series at Concordia University.
http://www.samborenstein.com/lecture.html

Recent Talks by François-Marc Gagnon 

December 7, 2005            
L’art canadien commence-t-il avec Krieghoff? Au tribunal de                                           l’histoire, Musée de l’Amérique française, Québec.
http://www.capitale.gouv.qc.ca/souvenir/memoire/default.html

November 22, 2005     
Fernand Leduc et la problématique de la matière  University of                                     Western Ontario, London
http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/html/events_calendar.html#nov

November 21, 2005
Quebec Identity and Painting University of Western Ontario,                                               London.                                                                                                                       http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/html/events_calendar.html#nov

October 20, 2005                 
Les jésuites et les monstres : La contribution du père Louis                                     Nicolas   Conference organized by the Canadian Society for                                          Eighteenth-Century Studies, Trois-Rivières.
http://www.uqtr.ca/dfra/congres2005/programme.html#v

October 19, 2005
Keynote Speaker for the international symposium, What Future for which Churches, Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://www.avenireglises.ca./

October 9, 2005 
André Breton, Percé et la guerre
Musée Le Chaffaud, Percé.

September 24, 2005
Invited speaker at the symposium Hot Mush and the Cold North: The Group of Seven, Ottawa Art Gallery.
http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/exhibits/2005/hot_mush/panel-en.php

PAST EVENTS and ACTIVITIES

The following is a sample of the press and promotional material from past events and activities that the Institute was involved in:

August 4 to Sept. 4, 2000           
18e Symposium International de la Nouvelle Peinture au Canada, Baie-St-Paul
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September 8, 2000
Le Devoir, Endowment announcement
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September 30, 2000
François-Marc Gagnon: Professeur épormyable, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
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October 4 to 7, 2000
Textiles d’Amérique et de France, Musée de la civilization, Hull
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October 26, 2000
Marian Dale Scott 1906-1993: Pionnière de l’art moderne, Galerie de l’UQAM
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March 6, 2001
La Presse, Endowment announcement
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April 6, 2001
The Province, Interview with François-Marc Gagnon
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October 19, 2001
Images of the First Peoples of Canada,  UAAC Annual Conference, Montreal
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November 8, 2001               
Thursday Report, Announcement of publication of Joan Acland, First Nations Artists in Canada
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January 24, 2002
Thursday Report, Announcement of interview with Joan Acland and François-Marc Gagnon on CBC Radio
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March 11, 2005
Who Are We? Otherness in Canadian Studies, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
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April 2005
Paul-Émile Borduas, Société d’histoire de Beloeil – Mont-St-Hilaire
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June 11, 2005
Le Journal de Montréal, Announcement of Leduc- Borduas Exhibition, Mont-St-Hilaire
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June 14, 2005
La Presse, Announcement of Leduc-Borduas Exhibition, Mont-St-Hilaire
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