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Pierre Dorion

March 4 to May 30, 2010
Free Free Admission

From March 4 to May 30, 2010, The Museum will present, in the new galleries of contemporary art, Pierre Dorion, Painting and Photography. For his very first exhibition in a Montreal museum, the Montreal painter has opted to present 15 canvases (2009-2010) alongside with some 40 archival photographs on which they are based. Visitors will discover that photograpy, although a little-known aspect of Dorion's oeuvre, actually plays a crucial role in the devlopement of his work.

TIFFANY GLASS

A Passion for Colour

February 12 to May 2, 2010
$ Admission Fee
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion
Level 2

Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) is famous for the original and spectacular effectsof colour and light that he achieved in his blown vases, stained glass windows and lamps. A Canadian first, this exhibition focusses on Tiffany's outstanding contribution to design and the technology of glass.

Exodus

January 28 to June 27, 2010
Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level S2

Moses, a central figure in the Jewish religion who is also seen as a heroic and revered Old Testament leader and prefiguration of Jesus by Christians and as a great prophet by Muslims, is the focus of this exhibition, featuring graphic works created by two Jewish artists, Marc Chagall and Pnina Cohen Gagnon. Exodus is presented from January 28, to June 27, 2010. Admission to this exhibition is free.

Global Warning: Scenes from a Planet under Pressure

Works from the Montreal Museum’s Collection of Contemporary Art

Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level S2

On November 10, 2009, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts unveiled new galleries of contemporary art. By transforming and reallocating the galleries that run under Sherbrooke Street between the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion and the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, it has doubled the previous gallery space, to display its extensive and diversified permanent collection. From now on, the collection will be presented thematically, with a new installation each year. Global Warning: Scenes from a Planet under Pressure is the inaugural exhibition for these galleries and this new approach.

Pre-Columbian art

Free Free Admission
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion
Level 1

The collection of pre-Columbian art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one of the largest in Canada, has grown again, with important donations that are now on display in the new galleries devoted to the art of ancient America. Some 100 objects, including thirty-two recent donations and nineteen loans, have been selected for this presentation of rare works. It presents a chronological and cultural approach to each major cultural area in Ancient America: Mesoamerica, the Intermediate Area (Central America) and the Andes in South America. “With the arrival of a new curator, Victor Pimentel, the Museum has reinstated its policy of research and enrichment for the collection of pre-Columbian art, as part of the dynamic of revitalizing the Museum on the eve of its 150th anniversary,” said Nathalie Bondil, the Museum’s director. As is the case with the entire Museum collection, admission to the galleries of pre-Columbian art is free at all times.

Sacred Africa II

Works from the Collections of Cirque du Soleil, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Redpath Museum, McGill University

Free Free Admission
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion
Level 1

Since November 19, 2008, Sacred Africa II will present a new selection of major works primarily from Laliberté’s collection, illustrating the artistic approaches of other peoples of West Africa and Equatorial and Central Africa. Sacred Africa II: Works from the Collections of Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Redpath Museum, McGill University brings together forty-eight works, sculptures, masks and objects, in the new, more spacious galleries that will now be devoted to African art.

The Body in Glass

Gift of the Anna and Joe Mendel Collection to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Free Free Admission
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion
Level 1

An exceptional gift of one hundred glass sculptures recently enriched the Museum’s Department of Decorative Arts, thanks to the generosity of Anna and Joe Mendel, long-standing friends of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Drawn to glass by its intrinsic properties and expressive potential, these collectors wished to share their enthusiasm for the Studio Glass Movement with Museum visitors. The Mendel Collection is the only one of its kind in Canada, ranking with those of the leading American connoisseurs who have made glass their passion. A first selection of nineteen artworks from the Mendel Collection, The Body in Glass, will be presented in a new gallery within the Museum’s permanent collection.

Napoleon

GIFT OF THE BEN WEIDER COLLECTION
TO THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level 3

Today, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is inaugurating new permanent galleries devoted to Napoleon and the arts under the First Empire, thanks to a major gift – the collection of works assembled by the late Ben Weider, for whom “Napoleon was a giant of history, one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century, who helped to define the modern age.” According to Nathalie Bondil, the Museum’s Director, “This outstanding gift and Mr. Weider’s philanthropic desire to raise the profile of Napoleon have enabled us to acquire a group of works on long-term loan and have sparked offers of further gifts, so that the Museum can, at last, open an Empire gallery. Not only Montreal’s heritage but also that of Canada will be enriched, for this magnificent period in the arts was hitherto poorly represented for obvious historical reasons. We will always be extremely grateful to Mr. Weider.”