Art this week

Danny Gaudreault, performing at VIVA! Art Action Thursday, Oct. 8

Well hello, art enthusiasts—we’re back with a fresh edition of Art this week after a short hiatus. There’s a ton of stuff going on this week so let’s get straight to it. First off, we’re now in the final days of Montreal’s biennial exploration of photography, Le Mois de la Photo, which ends on Oct. 11, so if you haven’t have a chance yet to check out the exhibitions, now is the time. You can take advantage of guided tours at three major exhibition sites, at Parisian Laundry (3550 St-Antoine W., $8) Wed–Fri at 5:30 p.m. or Sat–Sun at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., at Complexe de Gaspé (5445 de Gaspé, free)  Wed. at 2:45 p.m. and at the Belgo Building (372 Ste-Catherine W., free) Thurs. at 2:45 p.m. In other Mois de la Photo news, there will be a festive soirée Thursday, Oct. 8 at event headquarters Parisian Laundry with cocktails, snacks, tunes by DJ Donald Lauture, and a chance to win a new camera. (3550 St-Antoine, 8 p.m., $10/$5 students)

Le Mois de la Photo installation by Roberto Pellegrinuzzi at Parisian Laundry. Photo by Guy L’Heureux.

Today, Wednesday marks the first day of Viva! Art Action, a biennial event focussed on ephemeral, action-based arts including performances and interventions (and nightly suppers), running to Oct. 10 at Les Ateliers Jean-Brilliant. Check out tonight’s opening event featuring performances by Doyon/Demers, Sandra Johnstone and Soufia Bensaïd (661 Rose-de Lima, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m., free)

If outdoors is more your things, check out the area around Place des Arts for Common Space, a series of eight open-air artworks that play with our relationship with technology, including sound sculptures, projections and interactive multimedia installations, running until Oct. 18. Various sites around Place des Arts, check the map here.

Fans of visionary and surrealist art will want to head to the Village’s Écomusée du fier monde tonight, Wednesday, for the vernissage of a large group show organized by the Canadian branch of the Society for Art of Imagination, which includes works by the late H. R. Giger (who won an Oscar for his famous Alien of the film series of the same name), plus Alex Grey, Miguel Tio, Laurie Lipton and locals Jean Pronovost, Chris Dyer, Heidi Taillefer and more. 2050 Amherst, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 5–11 p.m.

You might also head to the Old Port Wednesday to check out the feminine, photorealistic portraits by painter Johanne Cullen at Galerie d’Art LOFT. 8 St-Paul E., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m.

Work by Johanne Cullen at Galerie d’Art LOFT

On Thursday, head to Artgang for the opening of two shows, What Goes Around Comes Around by New York graff artist and typographist Greg Lamarche AKA SPone, as well as Mémoires, a retrospective of photography by El Salvadorean artist José Enrique Montes Hernandez, whose body of work includes capturing graffiti and street art movements around the world, as well as a stint as the official photographer of Montreal rock god Jean Leloup. 6524 St-Hubert, Thursday, Oct. 8, 5 p.m.

Artwork by SPone at Artgang

On Friday head to 820Plaza for their inaugural exhibition, the group show Unsafe at Any Speed, a title borrowed from Ralph Nader’s 1963 exposé of the auto industry, which features works from Jon Rafman, Ivana Basic, Valérie Blass, Matt Goerzen and more. 6820 Marconi, Friday, Oct. 9, 7–10 p.m.

Also Friday, Divan Orange hosts a 5à7 to launch their October exhibition of works by Sophie Wilkins and Anik Favreau. 4234 St-Laurent, Friday, Oct. 9, 5–7 p.m.

Another graffiti-centric show goes down in Hochelaga on Saturday, at art supply shop Le Sino’s group exhibition Letter is the Limit, featuring 14 graff writers from Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City and Sherbrooke featuring black and white lettering-based works on paper from artists like Naimo, Pask, Koal, LYF3R and Sirus. 2817 Ontario E., Saturday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m.

You can always count on the Belgo for a good place to spend a Saturday, and this week is no exception with two new shows opening, including Stay Golden by New York based Anishinaabe artist  Maria Hupfield at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (#308). The show features a variety of gold-coloured sculptures as well as the felt canoe she created for Jiimaan, a performance work staged in Venice earlier this year. Then head upstairs to Galerie Trois Points (#520) for BF4E, a series of wall-mounted sculptures by Mathieu Lévesque that draw a line between the disciplines of sculpture and painting. 372 Ste-Catherine W., Saturday, Oct. 10, 3–5 p.m.

Artwork by Maria Hupfield at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau

As always, there’s plenty more going on this week, so be sure to check the full listings below!

Vernissages:

Oct. 7, 5 p.m. (VIP), 6:30 p.m. (Regular)
CIRCA art actuel – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #444)
Benefit Exhibition – Group Show
To Oct. 24 – Public vernissage Oct. 10, 3 p.m.

Oct. 7, 5–11 p.m.
Écomusée du Fier Monde – 2050 Amherst
Canadian Society for Art of Imagination – Group Show
To Oct. 17

Oct. 7, 6 p.m.
Galerie d’Art LOFT – 8 St-Paul E.
Destins – Johanne Cullen
To Oct. 18

Oct. 7, 5–8 p.m.
Galerie Bernard – 3926 St-Denis
New Ground – Manuel Bisson
To Nov. 7

Oct. 8, 6 p.m.
New Eldorado – 1800 Préfontaine (alleyway)
David Liver Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
To Oct. 11

Oct. 8, 5–9 p.m.
Fresca Luna Déco-Art – 3830 St-Denis
Haîti Lachérie – Manoucheka LaCherie
To Oct. 18

Oct. 8, 5–11 p.m.
Usine 106U – 160 Roy E.
Ventriloque – Group Show
To Oct. 30

Oct. 8, 5 p.m.
Artgang – 6524 St-Hubert
What Goes Around Comes Around – Greg Lamarche (SPone)
Mémoires – José Enrique Montes Hernandez
To Nov. 1

Oct. 8
Galerie d’Art d’Outremont – 41 St-Just
Repai(è)res – Debby Talbot
To Nov. 1

Oct. 8, 5–7 p.m.
Beaux-Arts des Amériques – 3944 St-Denis
Metamorphosis – Rachael Pease
To Nov. 14

Oct. 8, 6 p.m.
Musée du costume et du textile du Québec (MCTQ) – 363 de la Commune E.
Concours de la Mode Montréalaise
To Jan. 10, 2016

Oct. 9, 5–7 p.m.
Divan Orange – 4234 St-Laurent
Sophie Wilkins + Anik Favreau
To Oct. 29

Oct. 9, 5 p.m.
Centre Culturel Simon Bolivar – 394 de Maisonneuve W.
Flottements du désir – Cécile Comblen
To Oct. 30

Oct. 9, 7–10 p.m.
820Plaza – 6820 Marconi
Unsafe at Any Speed – Group Show
To Nov. 20

Oct. 9
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion – 1379 Sherbrooke W.
Her Story Today: Six Painters from Quebec and Canada – Marie-Claude Bouthillier + Wanda Koop + Christine Major + Angèle Verret + Carol Wainio + Janet Werner
To Aug. 7, 2016

Oct. 10, 4–8 p.m.
E. K. Voland Art Gallery – 4710 St-Ambroise, #100
Filling the Void – Françoise Issaly
To Oct. 16

Oct. 10, 5–10 p.m.
La Galerie – 1200 Amherst, #102
Le cirque légérement psychédélique – Olivier Dumoulin
To Nov. 3

Oct. 10, 7 p.m.
Le Sino – 2817 Ontario E.
Letter is the Limit – Group Show
To Nov. 7

Oct. 10, 3–5 p.m.
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #308)
Stay Golden – Maria Hupfield
To Nov. 14

Oct. 10, 3 p.m.
Galerie Nicolas Robert – 10 King
The Structure of Interference – Joe Lima
To Nov. 14

Oct. 10, 3 p.m.
Galerie Trois Points – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #520)
BF4E – Mathieu Lévesque
To Nov. 14

Last Call:

Victoria Hall – 4626 Sherbrooke W.
When the Stone Talks: The Art of Contemporary Zimbabwean Sculptors
To Oct. 7

Victoria Hall – 4626 Sherbrooke W.
When the Stone Talks: The Art of Contemporary Zimbabwean Sculptors
To Oct. 7

Vidéographe – 4550 Garnier
Nouvelle Cartographie: Humanités et réalités numériques
To Oct. 7

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.
#04.vav//2015 – Marlon Kroll + Marie-Claude Lacroix + Laila Mestari + Julie Piché + Annika Steimle
To Oct. 9

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran – 1892 Payette
Setting the Stage – Martin Golland
To Oct. 10

Phi Centre – 407 St-Pierre
The Knights of the Devil – Jacques Pugin
To Oct. 10

Joyce Yahouda Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #516)
Multiverse – Paul Wong
To Oct. 10

Galerie B-312 – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #403)
Texting Syria – Liam Maloney
To Oct.10

Galerie Simon Blais – 5420 St-Laurent, #100
Accumulations – Michel Campeau + Bertrand Carrière + Serge Clément
To Oct. 10

Centre des Arts actuels Skol – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #314)
The People in This Picture are Standing on All That Remained of a Handsome Residence – Christina Battle
To Oct. 10

Atelier Circulaire – 5445 de Gaspé, #105
Autoportraits robots – Leandro Berra
To Oct. 10

Galerie Donald Browne – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #528)
Éphémérides – Sara A. Tremblay
To Oct. 10

Le Sino – 2817 Ontario E.
See You Nextime – Wonez + Noper + Crane + Nems + Rouks
To Oct. 10

Arprim – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #426)
Based on a True Story, Part II – Tara Cooper + Terry O’Neill
Expozine 2014 Finalists
To Oct. 10

Galerie de l’UQAM – Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, 1400 Berri, #J-R 120
Another Life – Patricia Piccinini
Solistes – Anne-Renée Hotte
To Oct. 10

Galerie Division – 2020 William
Scott McFarland
To Oct. 10

Centre des Arts actuels Skol – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #314)
Christina Battle
To Oct. 10

Canadian Guild of Crafts – 1460-B Sherbrooke W.
Monument: Lasting Evidence of Someone or Something Notable – Andrea Graham
To Oct. 10

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.
Le Mois de la Photo – Official Headquarters
To Oct. 11

Maison de la culture Frontenac – 2550 Ontario E.
Hello World! – Christopher Baker
Paysages Fracturées – MissPixels (Isabelle Gagné)
Virtually There – Andreas Rutkauskas
To Oct. 11

Centre CLARK – 5455 de Gaspé, #114
Memories Center – Gregory Chatonsky + Dominique Sirois
Torrent – Dina Kelberman
P(N,R) = N!(N-R)! – Tanya St-Pierre + Philippe-Aubert Gauthier
To Oct. 11

Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal – 465 Mont Royal E.
Écoumène – Sébastien Lafleur
To Oct. 11

Ongoing Shows:

Palais des congrès – 159 St-Antoine W.
The Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo – The Exhibition
To Oct. 12

Eastern Bloc – 7240 Clark, 2nd Floor
Biopolitics: Cell Control
To Oct. 14

Station 16 – 3523 St-Laurent
Everything But the Whole Story – Joe Iurato
To Oct. 15

Espace VERRE – 1200 Mill
Face Nord – Michèle Perozeni
To Oct. 16

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – 4296 St-Laurent
C R I C C R A C – Gaëlle Choisne
To Oct. 16

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (PFOAC) – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #216)
Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
To Oct. 17

SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #507)
Tous décavés – Isabelle Le Minh
To Oct. 17

Galerie Laroche/Joncas – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #410)
Inhabited Likeness – Lesley Anderson
To Oct. 17

OBORO – 4001 Berri, #301
Somewhere Else – Rebecca Belmore
Tiburón – Anne Ashton
To Oct. 17

Optica – 5455 de Gaspé, #106
Top Secret. The Stasi Archives – Simon Menner
The World as Will and Representation – Roy Arden
To Oct. 17

Diagonale – 5455 de Gaspé, #110
Never Play Basketball Now – Eva Taulois
To Oct. 17

Art45 – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #220)
Scotiabank Photography Award X 3 – Lynne Cohen + Mark Ruwedel + Angela Grauerholz
To Oct. 17

La Castiglione – 5761 St-Laurent
Explorations photographiques – Group Show
To Oct. 17

Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) – 3680 Jeanne-Mance
Le corps sans organes – Ila Firouzabadi + Payam Mofidi
To Oct. 17

Galerie C.O.A – 6405 St-Laurent
[…] Mute – Group Show
To Oct. 17

Centre de design de l’UQAM – 1440 Sanguinet
Arthur Erickson: Site Lines
To Oct. 18

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.
Rodin: Metamorphoses
To Oct. 18

Galerie Youn – 5226 St-Laurent
Now Entering Beyawnder – Jay Dart
Pacific Rim Gothic – Paul Morstad
To Oct. 18

Visual Voice Art Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #421)
15,000 Volts – Melanie Hoff
To Oct. 18

Goethe-Institut – 1626 St-Laurent
A Side Man 5000 Adventure – Darsha Hewitt & Nelly-Ève Rajotte
To Oct. 18

Quartier des Spectacles – Surrounding Place des Arts
Common Space – Group Exhibition of Outdoor Installations
To Oct. 18

FOFA Gallery (Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts) – 1515 Ste-Catherine W.
La Perle Noir – Nikhil Chopra
Remnants of a Separation – Aanchal Malhotra
La Femme Maison – Yoshimi Lee
To Oct. 23

BBAM! Gallery – 3255 St-Jacques
Arsenic Love – Kamille Yergeau
To Oct. 23

Galerie Thomas Henry Ross – 5445 de Gaspé, #423
La très honorable Kim Waldron – Kim Waldron
To Oct. 23

Galerie d’Avignon – 88 Laurier E.
Steve Volpe
To Oct. 23

The McClure Gallery (Visual Arts Centre) – 350 Victoria
Light Falls on Things: The Metaphysics of Painting – Matthieu Bouchard + Allison Katz + Ludovic Cléroux + Bea Parsons
To Oct. 24 – Curator’s Talk Oct. 8, 7 p.m.

L’Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir – 5333 Casgrain, #802
Jouer avec l’espace – Lucie Jolicoeur Côté
To Oct. 24

Les Territoires – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #527)
Exposition Collective MAPPE: Forced Air – Zoe Koke + jake moore + Carolyne Scenna + Lisandre St-Cyr Lamothe
To Oct. 24

Galerie LUZ – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #418)
Mile End Blues – Lina Vandal
Communing with the Crows – Pamela D. Stewart
Des gestes et des signes – Lise Roy
To Oct. 24

Artexte – 2 Ste-Catherine E., #301
An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada
To Oct. 24

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery – 1400 de Maisonneuve W., Ground Floor
Algorithmic Archaeology – Sean Snyder
To Oct. 24 – Curator’s talk Oct. 7, 5 p.m.

Galerie d’Este – 4396 St-Laurent
Les natures mortes: Épisodes de petits déclins – Annie Baillargeon
To Oct. 25

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.
Marion Wagschal, Friends, Memories, Fables – Five Decades of Painting
To Oct. 25

Musée du costume et du textile du Québec (MCTQ) – 363 de la Commune E.
Leitmotifs
To Oct. 25

Z Art Space – 819 Atwater
Common Aliens – Group Show
To Oct. 29

Matahari Loft – 1673 Mont-Royal E.
Expo 106U – Group Show
To Oct. 29

Candide Café – 6293 St-Hubert
SoulLine Project – Funky B
To Oct. 30

Café L’Artère – 7000 du Parc
QuébécoisEs, musulmanes… et après
To Oct. 30

Fresh Paint 256 – 256 Ste-Catherine E.
Dérive – MSHL + Nelio + THTF
To Oct. 31

Cinéma du Parc – 3575 du Parc
Ephemeral Sentiment – Tammy Isabel Pardo
To Oct. 31

Canadian Guild of Crafts – 1460-B Sherbrooke W.
Resonance – Group show of 26 jewellers from l’École de joaillerie de Montréal
To Oct. 31

TOHU (Espace BOHU) – 2345 Jarry
La Quête de Mystère – Graziella Malagoni
To Oct. 31

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert
Monuments of a Perfect Future – Brandon Vickerd
Lesser Gods – Bevan Ramsay
HORS-LAB – Laurent Lamarche
To Oct. 31

Galerie Dominique Bouffard – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #508)
Surf & Turf: Even Fish Drown – Nicolas Ranellucci
To Nov. 1

Le repaire des 100 talents – 5867 St-Hubert
L’Exposition Universelle de Transylvanie de 1899 – Group Show
To Nov. 6

Occurrence – 5455 de Gaspé, #108
All Yours – Erik Kessels
Other People’s Photographs – Joachim Schmid
To Nov. 7

Dazibao – 5455 de Gaspé, #109
Positions / Connexions – David K. Ross
To Nov. 7

Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – 3755 Botrel
Hyperland – Karine Giboulo
To Nov. 8

Café-Bar Théâtre Ste-Catherine – 264 Ste-Catherine E.
Art Up w/ Studio Béluga –  A. J. Little
To Nov. 21

Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles – 5800 St-Denis, #501
Title Here – Group Show
To Nov. 26

Galerie Lounge TD – 307 Ste-Catherine W., Second Floor
La poésie de l’existence – Kittie Bruneau
To Nov. 29

Musée de Lachine – 1 du Musée, Lachine
Lake-Like – Group Show
To Nov. 29

Darling Foundry – 745 Ottawa
Hôteles formes sauvages – André Fortino
LAT. 17°33′13″N LONG. 99°24′37″W – Roy Meuwissen
Mirador – Acapulco
To Nov. 29

VOX Centre de l’Image Contemporaine – 2 Ste-Catherine E., #401
A Series of Images About You – Lina Selander
Siren Songs Children’s Exhibition – Clément de Gaulejac
To Dec. 5

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.
Durational Photography – Owen Kydd
To Dec. 6

Musée du Rock’n’Roll – 2222 Ontario E.
Ère Metal: The Evolution of Quebecois Metal
To Dec. 18

Centre d’histoire de Montréal – 335 Place d’Youville
Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940–1960
To Dec. 30

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.
George S. Zimbel: A Humanist Photographer
To Jan. 3, 2016

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.
After Faceb00k: In Loving Memory <3
To Jan. 10, 2016

Fondation Guido Molinari – 3290 Ste-Catherine E.
Quantifiers – Guido Molinari
To Jan. 17, 2016

Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) – 1920 Baile
Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities: Álvaro Siza in Berlin and the Hague
To Feb. 7, 2016

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.
Montreal Through the Eyes of Vittorio: 50 Years of City Life and Graphic Design
To April. 10, 2016