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The Earth is Blue Like an Orange

September 1, 2010 to March 27, 2011
Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level S2

The second presentation of the collection of contemporary art in the reorganized underground galleries brings together some thirty works – most of them recently acquired, some on loan, notably from Loto-Quebec – informed with a sense of the marvellous. and soaring into the world of the imagination. These works, paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos by Canadian, American and Japanese artists open vistas in which viewers can suddenly, if briefly, look differently at the world. Free admission

The Symbolist Muse

A Selection of Prints from the National Gallery of Canada

July 16 to October 21, 2010
Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level S2

Until October 21, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting The Symbolist Muse: A Selection of Prints from the National Gallery of Canada in its Graphic Art Centre. The exhibition includes over fifty masterpieces, spectacular prints by such renowned and influential figures as Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Edvard Munch, Maximilian Kurzweil, Max Klinger, Félicien Rops, Franz von Stuck and James Ensor, as well as, in certain works, Auguste Rodin, Henri Fantin-Latour, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and the early Pablo Picasso, among others. This exhibition has been organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. Admission to the exhibition is free at all times.

The Tribe and the Hermit

Michel Rouleau’s Tent-Chairs

July 13 to November 14, 2010
Free Free Admission
Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion
Level 2

From July 13 to November 14, 12010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents The Tribe and the Hermit by Montreal designer Michel Rouleau in the Design Lab. Six tent‐chairs are arranged in a circle on an ersatz lawn dotted with artificial flowers. Each unit consists of a beach chair under a tent of two‐tone striped cotton canvas. A soundtrack alternates urban (cars, airplanes and crowds…) and rural noises (crickets and the wind in the trees…), interspersed with periods of silence. The Tribe and the Hermit is a physical and sensorial spatial piece that examines the existential relationship between the individual and society. According to its creator, it is “a space you can immerse yourself in that tends to foster meditation and introspection – a meeting place for social introverts!” Visitors are invited to sit back and relax in these tent‐chairs, as all the furniture in the Design Lab is presented for the public to try out. Admission to the exhibition is free at all times.

Drive End

June 17 to September 19, 2010
Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level S2

From June 17 to September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End by Martin Beauregard, a remarkable photographic project illustrating the themes of obsolescence and migration. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum. Admission to the exhibition is free at all times.

Studio Glass

Anna and Joe Mendel Collection

April 8, 2010 to January 30, 2011
Free Free Admission
Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion
Level 1

A hundred works of contemporary art glass offered as a gift to theMontreal Museum of Fine Arts by Montreal collectors Anna and Joe Mendel will bepresented from April 8, 2010, to January 30, 2011. Studio Glass: Anna and Joe MendelCollection follows the first selection, The Body in Glass, which visitors to the Museum wereinvited to discover in the fall of 2008. With this major gift of works, the Museum becomesthe only Canadian institution to offer a comprehensive survey of international art glass.Admission to the exhibition is free, as it is for the Museum’s entire permanent collection.