Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts brings together new works by Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau (born in 1980), Impermanencies 01, 2017, digital prints, 84 x 102 cm. Collection of the artist.
MONTREAL
.- Well known for his photography, multidisciplinary artist Yann Pocreau has for a number of years been keenly interested in light and its many manifestations. The exhibition Impermanencies, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, brings together new works by Pocreau that offer a poetic reflection on time, the cosmos and photography.
Impermanencies is the culmination of an MMFA-sponsored residency the artist completed at the Darling Foundry from 2016 to 2018 as well as a research stint conducted at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory in 2018, during which he studied the universe and its phenomena. The exhibition offers a metaphorical expression of Pocreaus recent musings and the existential questions that astronomy and an observation of the stars naturally inspire.
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Starting tomorrow and lasting until April 30, Art Souterrain Festival is picking up from where it left off from last year’s cancellation with its 13th edition, this time featuring an urban component to explore beneath Montreal’s streets. This year, the theme is chronometry (time), and is expressed by dozens of artist through installations, images, and more. Those who wish to avoid being indoors with other art lovers can wait until the festival goes digital after April 30. Details for everything where to find artwork, whose work is on display, and more can be found here.
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This spring, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will open three exhibitions that address important societal issues through the work of contemporary artists. Starting in March, the exhibition Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet will explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planetâs ecosystems caused by human intervention. Then, in April, two monographic exhibitions will respectively spotlight Montreal contemporary artists Yann Pocreau, whose interest has turned to cosmology in his recent photography explorations, and Caroline Monnet, whose work sensitively depicts the precarious living conditions experienced by Canadaâs Indigenous communities.
Adding to this, visitors will be able to continue to enjoy the major exhibition Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures until September 12, and the discovery exhibition GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics until July 4.