The back-to-school/work season is in summer mode, both in terms of weather conditions and exhibition content.
Several large-scale, high-quality exhibitions play a prolonged role:
- Painted Presence: Rembrandt and his Peers at AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), an approach to art at the time of the Dutch master ;
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/painted-presence-rembrandt-and-his-peers
- Saints, sinners, lovers & fools at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, an incursion into the aesthetic universe of Flemish painting
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/
en/exhibitions/saints-sinners-lovers-and-fools/
- Helen McNicholl: An Impressionist Journey at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, an exhibition expressing the intense artistic search for light
https://www.mnbaq.org/en
- Hiroshige’s landscape prints are still on show until October 13. Discover this illustrated tour immersing you in the world of the Tokaido stages, between Edo and Kyoto. https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/tokaido/
- Last but not least, the Canadian Centre for Architecture offers an interesting exploration of landscape illustration through a selection of printed documents from its library. This exhibition invites us to question the notion of landscape – which is highly polysemous, evolving and interactive – and its representation.
https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/93193/reading-landscapes
Gentle autumn!