Publisher Description

In the spring of 2022, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present the first exhibition in Canada devoted to the Swiss artist Nicolas Party, whose unique visual language both challenges and celebrates the conventions of pictorial representation. Entitled Mauve Twilight, after a painting by Canadian artist Ozias Leduc in the Museum's collection, this exhibition will bring together over 20 pastels and sculptures specifically chosen by the artist, as well as various pastels, prints, watercolours and textiles he will have created for the Museum. The exhibition will also include masterworks from the Museum's richly diverse collection incorporated into an immersive series of murals painted on site by the artist in the Museum's most historic galleries. A richly illustrated bilingual catalogue (English and French) will accompany the exhibition. A record of this unique experience imagined for the Museum, it will include a fictional text authored by a Quebec writer drawing inspiration from Party's works and numerous photographs capturing the artist's creative process and his large murals created in situ for the exhibition. Text in English and French. 200 colour illustrations

Author Biography

Nicolas Party (Lausanne, 1980) is a figurative artist living and working in New York. His artistic practice stems from his passion for graffiti, pursued from an early age and refined over a decade. Party's work is not confined to painting. In fact, his creative universe – mainly featuring still lifes and portraits – is also declined through other media, such as murals, installations, ceramic pieces, and sculptures. The latter are often references to ancient Greek and Roman fragments. His work has been the subject of collective and solo exhibitions held in important international venues such as the Musée Magritte (Brussels, 2018), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC, 2017), the Dallas Museum of Art (2016), the Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, 2015), and the Swiss Institute (New York, 2012).

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CONTENTS18NICOLAS PARTY : L'HEURE MAUVE UNE OEUVRE POUR TOUTES LES SAISONSSTÉPHANE AQUIN24NICOLAS PARTY: L'HEURE MAUVE A WORK FOR ALL SEASONSSTÉPHANE AQUIN28PEINTURES DE LEUR TEMPS : HISTOIRES DE L'ANTHROPOCÈNEBÉNÉDICTE RAMADE38PAINTINGS OF THEIR TIME: STORIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENEBÉNÉDICTE RAMADEEN MUSIQUE / SET TO MUSICPAR PIERRE LAPOINTE / BY PIERRE LAPOINTE66LE SERPENT QUI DANSE / THE DANCING SERPENT67LA DANSE DU CONQUISTADOR / DANCE OF THE CONQUISTADOR82L'HYMNE AU PRINTEMPS83L'HYMNE À L'AUTOMNE (POUR ROBIDOUX) / ODE TO AUTUMN (FOR ROBIDOUX)98-99SAG MIR WO DIE BLUMEN SING / OÙ VONT LES FLEURS / WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE101LES FLEURS D'UNE AUTRE DIMENSION / FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION116L'HIVER / WINTERTIME117AUJOURD'HUI LA NEIGE REVIENT / TODAY IS BRUSHED IN SNOW AGAIN136NON JE N'AI RIEN OUBLIÉ / NO, I COULD NEVER FORGET137LE MÊME CAFÉ, LA MÊME RUE / SAME STREET, SAME CAFÉ157GNOSSIENNE NO 1 / GNOSSIENNE NO. 1161L'HEURE MAUVE 22178YOUKALI179PÉPIPHONIE / PEPIPHONY

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