Erwin Wurm, "Fat Car", 2002.
By Jean-Michel Ross
Over the last few years in Québec, public galleries and artist-run centres seem to be the venues producing events by internationally renowned visual artists. For a long time, the role of host and exhibition producer for such artists was the exclusive domain of big museums and large-scale events (such as Les Cent jours d’art contemporain, the Biennale de Montréal or the Manif d’art de Québec) but it has now been taken up by a wider range of institutions. During the last few months, this conjuncture has given Montrealers the opportunity to view exhibitions by artists like London’s Janice Kerbel and Chile’s Claudia del Fierro at Galerie Optica, Americain artist Ron Athey at Centre Clark, and French artist Dominique Blais and Austrian artist Klaus Scherübel at the Darling Foundry. (more…)
