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Quebec
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/expositions/a-laffiche
Critically acclaimed multidisciplinary company Lemieux & Pilon 4D will be celebrating their 30th year by presenting an immersive installation in the 2014 International Digital Arts Biennial until August 31, 2014. Their productions, which employ the technology of virtual projections, erase the boundaries between performance, set design, film, video, dance, poetry, visual arts, light, music and sound exploration, thus promoting the integration of these diverse forms of expression.
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal
http://www.macm.org/en/exhibitions/current/
Fans of electronic music will be excited to see how Ryoji Ikeda combines sound with visual arts. In his installation, Ryoji Ikeda’s practice explores the rationality, simplicity and intricacy of ultrasounds, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound. A master of minimalist sound, Ryoji Ikeda takes the manipulation of sonic data to the limits of perception. In his work, the sublime blends with infinity, and the nexus of sensations triggered by his visual and sonic compositions evokes a vast, intangible and strikingly elegant world. Catch Ryoji Ikeda: C4I before it ends on June 18, 2014!
Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec
http://www.mnbaq.org/expositions/actuellement
Until September 7, 2014, the Musee National des Beaux-Arts in Quebec will be putting on an exhibition of the two founding fathers of modern Canadian art in dialogue with each other. Maurice and Lyman in the company of Matisse will feature approximately a dozen paintings by the French master as well as some 80 works by James Wilson Morrice and John Lyman: these portraits, nudes, Canadian landscapes and scenes from Venice, North Africa as well as the North of France, the West Indies and the Caribbean share an unmistakable common quest for light and an exceptional mastery of colors.
Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
http://www.ago.net/exhibitions
Composed of more than 130 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and archival materials, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty draws on the artists’ experiences during times of conflict and violence, including the London Blitz of the Second World War, to examine how confinement and angst fostered their extraordinary creativity and unique visions. It also demonstrates how the two artists reflected differently upon torment. Open until July 20, 2014, this exhibition of two giants of 20th-century British art surely should not be missed.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
http://tomthomson.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions2/
Curated by Virginia Eichhorn, Director and Chief Curator, William Ronald and Alexandra Luke will hold works by William Ronald, who was the driving force behind the formation in 1953 of the Painters Eleven, a group that introduced abstraction to Canadian art, and Alexandra Luke, an artist who organized the Canadian Abstract Exhibition which lead to the formation of the Painters Eleven. The exhibition will focus on works that remain in the family – and will underscore the tension and difficulties in maintaining an artistic practice and balancing a family life as well. The exhibition will last until September 14, 2014.
National Gallery of Canada
http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/exhibitions/current
From June 12, 2014 to September 14, 2014, the National Gallery of Canada will be holding an exhibition of works by Dore, arguably the most renowned illustrator of all time. Gustave Dore (1832-1883): Master of Imagination will be organized in collaboration with the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and this exhibition will be the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to this major artist, including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. A hundred works, ranging from spectacular panoramas to intimate studies, will be brought together to illustrate Dore’s great artistic diversity.
British Columbia
Vancouver Art Gallery
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/current_exhibitions.html
Art-lovers interested in audience engaging installation art will find Offsite: Babk Golkar, running until September 18, 2014, quite intriguing.Vancouver-Based artist Babak Golkar will present several large terracotta pots at Offsite. Each vessel is uniquely designed to contain a scream, providing a unique location for viewers to release excess feelings encountered in the everyday. Both clever and playful, Golkar's installation takes a critical look at the effects of increased expectations and anxiety in contemporary society.
Alberta
The Glenbow Museum
http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/
What it is: Borrowed from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, up until August 24, 2014, the Glenbow Museum will be presenting 75 paintings by world-renowned artists from the 15th to 20th century, including Eugene Delacroix's haunting Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking (1850), Henri Matisse's ink study Leda (1945) and three works by surrealist master Salvador Dali, including the 13.9' x 10.6' Santiago El Grande (1957). Masterworks will focus on exquisite and valuable paintings by important old masters, as well as by seminal artists in the history of Canadian art.
Saskatchewan
Mendel Art Gallery
http://www.mendel.ca/category/exhibitions/present/
Examining the London period through works by Carr and commissions and projects by major contemporary Canadian and international artists, including Louise Lawler, Mark Wallinger, and Charlotte Salomon, Convoluted Beauty: In the Company of Emily Carr will take a look at her time spent in London. Becoming eventually in retrospect a formative point in her career, one where she resolutely declared her sense of her own Canadian as well as artistic identity, those interested in Canadian art can visit this exhibition from June 27, 2014 to September 14, 2014.
Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/AGNS_Halifax/exhibitions/default.aspx
As an homage to Canadian history, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia will be presenting War of 1812-1814: Then and After, emphasizing the crucial battles that have a particular relationship with this province, especially the taking of the US frigate CHESAPEAKE by HMS SHANNON on 1 June 1813 and the burning of Washington by General Ross on 24 August 1814. A survey of other important events and battles during the war, the monuments to its heroes, and the lasting results of the war still evident today will complete the exhibition. Two damaged 1813 aquatints and a rare 1814 engraving will be shown at the exhibition so be sure to see it before August 24, 2014.
Manitoba
Winnipeg Art Gallery
http://wag.ca/art/exhibitions/current-exhibitions
As an attempt to blur the lines between artist and curator, Micah Lexier has worked with Paul Butler, Curator of Contemporary Art, to create an installation where a constellation of artworks—both found and made—are in dialogue with each other. The exhibition reflects on the creative process of making and presenting art, and, like all of Lexier’s work, is not only a portrait of the artist, but of his practice as well. Catch Micah Lexier: This, That, Those before it ends on August 4, 2014.
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