Clockwise from top left: Adolph Friedländer, Comedians de Mephisto Co. Allied with Le Roy—Talma—Bosco World Monarchs of Magic, 1905. © Musée McCord; Mylène Guay, national coordinator of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective; BGL, Canvas, 2014. CMYK print, laminated and mounted on cardboard, 61 x 92 cm. Numbered edition of 200. Sold framed; Guillaume Lachapelle, Nuit étoilée, 2012. Courtesy Art Mûr.
Our editors’ weekly roundup of Canadian art news.
The Musée McCord in Montreal announced a major acquisition of magic-themed posters and documents donated by La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso. The museum now holds the largest public collection of its kind, boasting 600 posters from the golden age of magic, numerous rare books and documents related to magic’s most famous figure, Harry Houdini.
The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective hired a new national coordinator: Mylène Guay. Of Abanaki descent, Guay holds a bachelor of history from the University of Québec à Montréal, and recently worked at Wapikoni Mobile, an organization dedicated to producing short films made by young Aboriginal filmmakers.
Ahead of their showing at the 2015 Venice Biennale, BGL began fundraising by selling an editioned print featuring the probable leitmotif of their Venice project: drip-covered paint cans.
Montreal gallery Art Mûr revealed that two artists from their roster, Simon Bilodeau and Guillaume Lachapelle, will be included in a large group show, titled “Personal Structures,” as a part of the officially recognized collateral programming at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Two other Art Mûr artists will be in Italy this year, capitalizing on the art world’s attention in that area. Jinny Yu will have a solo exhibition at l’Oratorio San Ludovico in Venice from September 1 to November 22, 2015, and Jannick Deslauriers‘s work will be shown in the 25th edition of “Miniarttextil” in Como from May 9 to June 21, 2015.
RBC and the Canadian Art Foundation opened the call for submissions to the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition on Wednesday. The CPC supports Canada’s next generation of visual artists through widespread exposure, and finalists receive a total of $85,000 in prize money. Applications close at 4 p.m. EST on May 6, 2015.
