book launch

A double book launch at Pub Burgundy Lion

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...ad her book and wrote his first-ever, non-paid review. That was the impact Nathalie Guilbeault’s story had on Christian Fennell, a writer and editor from Toronto. He commented on a Facebook post, and she responded on Instagram. “The Leafs will beat the Habs in six,” he wrote. One year into the pandemic, Fennell headed down the 401 east to Montreal, where Guilbeault was waiting to collect her wager. The writing continued, their latest books now com...
ALEXANDER CALDER

Alexander Calder – Until February 24, 2019, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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...also reveals little-known sculptures made by the artist in his childhood. Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA, explains: “Montreal is home to the most important work of public art in Canada: the monumental sculpture Trois disques, or as Montrealers affectionately call it, Man, remembering ‘Man and His World.’ Evoking humanism as did Expo 67 – an exhibition that looked toward the future – this sculpture alludes to humanity’s...
Egyptian Mummies

Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives

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...anks are also owed, of course, to our six guests from the distant past.” – Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA Introductions Before meeting any of the mummies, we begin along the Nile where a small wooden model of a funerary boat sets the scene. In the next room we meet Nestawedjat, a wealthy married woman from Thebes, who died in about 700BCE. Like Russian nesting dolls, her mummy was placed in a series of three coffins. Emb...
avant-garde Montrealers

Avant-Garde Montrealers at the MMFA

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...ayed an instrumental role in promoting contemporary decorative arts,” said Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA. “This exhibition honours the important work accomplished by three forward-thinking gallerists. At a time when contemporary art underestimated these modes of expression, they dedicated themselves to championing these art forms. It’s interesting to note that they opened their galleries – the first of their kind in Can...
BLACK CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY ART

Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art – until September 16, 2018

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...ts their rightful place, enriching our common aesthetic imagination,” says Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA. “Here We Are Here: Black Contemporary Canadian Art shines the spotlight on the historical and current relevance of Blackness to the Canadian social fabric. Contemporary art allows us to explore perennial questions of race, exclusion and belonging from another angle. This exhibition renounces the idea of a single nar...
Motion – Emotion

Motion – Emotion – until November 11, 2018, MMFA

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...his preoccupying concern for the environment in works with a darker side. Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA, explains: “Seeing Jean-Michel’s latest production during a recent visit to his Paris studio, I wanted to invite him back to the Museum. I was impressed by the graphic power of his tornadoes and waves… a humble homage to mighty Nature and the violence of the elements in these precariously balanced sculptures.” In 201...
Picasso

Picasso at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until September 16, 2018

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...ints of view on the international history of art that requires rethinking. Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA, and curator of the Montreal presentation, explains, “This project appealed to me since it enabled us to tell the story of the decolonization of the gaze over a century, that of Picasso: He was born in 1881, a year before the opening of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro and four years before Africa was divided am...
Parmigianino to Matisse

Parmigianino to Matisse – Until August 12, 2018, MMFA

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...of his collection of works on paper, one of the finest in the land,” says Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator of the MMFA. The collector has commented on the joy of collecting drawings, which he began acquiring in the 1990s: “I realized that to pursue this new passion, I would need to quickly educate myself. I immersed myself in the world of drawings. I studied the different artists, learning to differentiate between the important...

Nadia Myre – until May 27, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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...hibition attest to the encounter between Indigenous peoples and Europeans. Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator of the MMFA, is “touched to welcome this first solo exhibition by Nadia Myre in a museum. She is an artist I have known and appreciated for years. Her heightened sensitivity coupled with her conceptual articulation and aesthetic sensibilities place her among the best female artists of her generation.” “This exhibition is a...
Meryl McMaster

Meryl McMaster – Until December 3, 2017, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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...termination, her poetic self-portraits are stunning in their beauty,” said Nathalie Bondil, Director and Chief Curator of the MMFA. “By means of photography and performance Meryl McMaster explores the identity of First Nations and their cultural context. Examining her own heritage – Indigenous and Euro-Canadian – through portraiture and self-portraiture, she surveys self-construction through lineage, history, and culture,” explained Ami Barak, gue...