Judging from the Triennale at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, 38 artists in Quebec have been having quite a lot of fun for the past three years.Adad Hannah's tableaux vivants in the Prado (see kissing photo above)use Valazquez's Las Meninas as a backdrop. The work includes video, photos, and a glimpse inside the making of (which destroys the mystery of the images a little in my opinion).
For pure viewing pleasure, I liked two photo installations: Chih-Chien Wang's smoky water themed photos of goldfish and Niagra Falls and Nicolas Baier's luminous black monolith of mirrors.
I have never laughed harder in a museum than in Karen Tam's installation, a cosy karaoke chamber composed of comfy cushions, paper cutouts, a microphone and a tv screen on which were shown various videos of English and French songs dubbed into Mandarin (not sure) and subtitled for your singalong pleasure in French, English, and possibly Cree(again, not sure...). you can view the videos here, but the experience is not at all the same.
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what did you think of the David Armstrong Six installation "From Below" or the David Altmejd "Berger"?
Aprt from these two phenominal works, NIcolas Baier's "Vanities" resonates in my memory, the ghosts in those lead mirrors, ... it's not about what is seen but what we have always known..(Agnes Martin)
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