Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art

Luanne Martineau: Aidan’s Fiddle (2009): Industrial felt, needle-felted wool, yarn and thread; 223.5 x 223.5 x 25.4 cm. Private collection. Courtesy Aidan Larock, Ottawa, the artist, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
Marcel Dzama, Luanne Martineau, Etienne Zack
February 4 to April 25

A rare treat! Three of Canada’s most exciting emerging artists exhibited simultaneously under one roof! Although Winnipeg-born, New York-based Marcel Dzama brings the immediate name-recognition, Martineau and Zack’s exhibitions are sure to impress, as well. The Dzama exhibition, Of Many Turns, will be the largest gathering of his work in a public museum thus far, and focuses on his most recent productions in a wide range of media, including dioramas, videos, sculptures, paintings, collages and drawings. It will certainly be a good opportunity to appraise more fully this artist’s enigmatic, and extremely popular, work. Victoria, B.C.-based Martineau is rapidly gaining attention for her unique and complex felt and wool sculptures. A dozen recent works, including an artist’s book, sculptures, drawings and  “drulptures” — a combination of the two latter art forms — will make up her exhibition.  Lastly, Montreal-based painter (and RBC Painting Competition winner) Zack will be showing 20 works produced over the last six years, as well as two new paintings created for the show.