Sound and Vision.
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Publication Title: C: International Contemporary Art
Format: Online
Author: Hickey, Andria

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec

Sound and Vision, the summer exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is the first collection-based curatorial collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and the MMFA. While the title of the exhibition alludes to a relationship between the audible and the optical, in a round-table curators' talk during the exhibition AGO curator David Moos suggested that Sound and Vision is as much a dialogue of collecting practices as it is a snapshot of the contemporary Canadian art world. That being said, the exhibition can be approached with a sense of predictability: Sound and Vision features the expected roster of works by Canadian artists who have notable careers both within and outside of Canada. However, by combining work by Tim Lee, Janieta Eyre, Steven Shearer, Althea...



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