MONTREAL, CANADASCENE SCAPEAmel Chamandy: Through the Artist’sEyes, photo exhibit, Galerie NuEdgeMay 7 – September 18, 2010

The Montreal Musée District’s Galerie NuEdgewill feature the latest black and white photoretrospect entitled Scene Scape, Through theArtist’s Eyes by artist Amel Chamandy. Thisseries of black and white photographs willintimately connect the artist’s past to herpresent through an interactive show focusingon a series of images taken in 1998. “SceneScape” will be unlike any other project Amelhas undertaken as an artist. The scope of theshow will combine photography, video andsound to create an immersive environment,one in which the audience will becomeemotionally attached to the work. “Theexhibition will be about engaging the audiencein every possible way, both visually andinteractively. The photos intend to provoke inthe viewer an emotional response which willrequire them to engage their senses.” Throughthe poetic transformation of these photographs,from the simple and familiar into the complex

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Artist’s Eyes” is a poetic and powerfulcomposition. “Scene Scape” will make its debutonto the global stage at Galerie NuEdge onMay 7th and run until September 11, 2010.www.galerienuedge.com

Marcel Dzama: Of Many Turns,Montreal Contemporary Art MuseumFebruary 4 – April 25, 2010

Marcel Dzama was born in Winnipeg and haslived in New York since 2004. Musée d’artcontemporain will feature one of the artist’slargest solo exhibitions titled “Of Many Turns”.This exhibition will highlight some the artist’sthemes – such as nostalgia, early modernism,the relationship between irony and cynicism,politics, and subjectivity in order to arrive at adif ferent understanding of his work.Dzama transforms seemingly arbitrary imagery,steeped in nostalgia, into a sort of mythologythat is aesthetically attractive while precludingmost straightforward readings. Dzama’s video’s,sculptures, paintings, collages and drawingsof carnivalesque scenes of choreographedviolent and erotic behavior draw upon a richand back-catalogue of artistic and literaryreferences that stem from pre-war children’sbook illustrations.www.macm.org

OTTAWACMCP- Nicolas Baier: Pareidolias,National Gallery Of CanadaFebruary 12 – April 24, 2010

Since the early 1990s’ Montreal Artist NicolasBaier has been challenging photographicencounters with his elaborately constructeddigital imagery. This fascinating exhibitionfeatures a large selection of photographic worksthat represent the artist’s most recentproduction. The exhibit title “Pareidolia” refersto the practice of ascribing an image, a meaningor a name of phenomena despite the absenceof any true correlation; for instance, the gameof transforming clouds into other objects. It isanother way to open the mind and transformclouds into other objects. The artist invites usto play along in this exhibit. Organized by theMusée régional de Rimouski, the Museum ofContemporary Canadian Art, the Musée nationaldes beaux-arts du Québec and circulated bythe Canadian Museum of ContemporaryPhotography.”www.gallery.ca

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and anomalous, yet almost mysterious, therelationship of the viewer with their surroundingswill be challenged. This photographic work isan attempt to change the way individualsinteract with the world around them and,through her images, the emotional experiencebecomes a kind of investigative search.This Montreal artist has been creating sincethe age of 15 and her studies in the 80’stouched on art history, restoration, paintingand drawing. The images from the “SceneScape” series have evolved mostly fromcharcoal and ink drawings that she producedat an earlier stage in her career. Through thecombination of traditional medium andcontemporary technique, the artist digitallytransforms small size black and white filmnegatives to produce photographs to a scaleup to four by six feet. Color is transcended inorder to capture the viewer’interest and toconvey a message. The deconstructed imagesmirror Amel’s daily life. “The photographsrepresent pieces of the puzzle of life itself,shifting, moving,vibrating, and at timesdistorted.” It’s the complexity of what Amelenvisions in life. “Scene Scape, Through the

NEW YORK, USAPicasso: Themes and Variations, MoMAMarch 28 – September 6, 2010

With over one hundred works on display,“Picasso: Themes and Variations” exploresPablo Picasso’s creative process through themedium of pr intmaking, tracing hisdevelopment from the early years of thetwentieth century, with depictions of itinerantcircus performers in the Blue and Rose periods,to his discovery of Cubism. This unique exhibittraces the artist’s evolution through his artisticvision stemming over a few decades ofexperimentation in etching, lithography, andlinoleum cut that demonstrates how each ofthese techniques inspired new directions inhis work.www.moma.org

LONDON, ENGLANDChris Ofili: Tate BritainJanuary 27 – May 16, 2010

Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricatelyornamented paintings, pencil drawings andwatercolors from the mid 1990s to today willbe exhibited at the Tate Britain. He was oneof the most acclaimed British painters of hisgeneration. He won the Turner Prize in 1998and represented Great Britain at the 50thVenice Biennale in 2003. His exuberantpaintings are renowned for their rich layeringand inventive use of media, including balls ofelephant dung that punctuate the canvas andsupport it at the base, as well as glitter, resin,map pins and magazine cut-outs. His influencesare drawn from Zimbabwean cave painting toBlaxploitation movies, fusing comic book heroesand icons of funk and hip-hop, and, for thefirst time, these celebrated paintings are beingpresented alongside current developments.www.tate.org.uk/britain

Richard Hamilton: Serpentine GalleryMarch 3 – April 25, 2010

The Serpentine Gallery will present a soloexhibit of one of the world’s most respectedliving artist Richard Hamilton. Since the 1950’sHamilton has embraced many differentmediums, including painting, printmaking,installations and industrial design. His workcontinued to evolve throughout his long andvery influential career, particularly in theapproach to process and techniques. Theexhibition will explore in depth the use ofmultiples and varied in which ways theartist used photographic representation incontemporary society.www.serpentinegallery.org

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Theo Van Doesburg: Van Doesburg andthe International Avant-Garde, Tate ModernFebruary 4 – May 16, 2010

This is a unique and exciting chance for VanDoesburg’s work to be seen for the first timein the UK at the Tate Modern a pivotal figureof the European avant-garde. Van Doesburgworked in disciplines within art, design andtext. This artistic movement of painters,architects and designers sought to build a newsociety in the aftermath of World War I,advocating an international style of art anddesign based on a strict geometry of horizontalsand verticals. This exhibition explores VanDoesburg’s role as a promoter of DutchNeoclassicism, his Dada personality, his effortsto influence the Bauhaus, his links withinternational Constructivists, and his creationof the group Art Concret.www.tate.org.uk/modern/

PARIS, FRANCELucian Freud: Centre PompidouMarch 10– July 19, 2010

At 88 years old, Lucian Freud is one of themost influential and important living artists inthe world today and his work will be featuredin a retrospective exhibition at the CentrePompidou. The exhibition presents anexceptional overview of his masterpieces andpays an unprecedented tribute to one of thegreatest contemporary painters. His exhibit willbe composed of around 50 large-scalepaintings, accompanied by a selection ofgraphic works and photographs of the artist’sLondon studio. The uniqueness of LucianFreud’s works lies in his meticulous and almostobsess treatment of the portraits and the nude,based on an absolute approach to the art ofpainting. “I want the painting to be flesh”.www.centrepompidou.fr

BARCELONA, SPAIN

Rodney Graham: Through the Forest,Museu D’art Contemporani De BarcelonaJanuary 30 – May 18 2010

Rodney Graham’s exhibition “Through theForest” provides an insight into the developmentof his complex body of work influenced by1970s Conceptual art and its way of thinking.Born in 1949 in Abbotsford, British Columbia,this Canadian artist’s work, displays a longpath that goes from the adaptation of literarymodels and the appropriation of moments inart history to impressive film works and finallyculminates in a classical art medium, painting.In tandem with the exhibition at the MACBA,where the series of paintings Picasso, MyMaster (2005) is also on view, a series of reliefsby Graham will be exhibited at the MuseuPicasso in Barcelona, Entitled “PossibleAbstractions”, this series constitutes acaricature of the polemically ironic attackson the development of modern abstractpainting and claims to be a new form of thatbrand of art.www.macba.cat

DUBAIArt Dubai: Madinat Jumeirah ResortMarch 17 - 20, 2010

For four consecutive years Art Dubai has beena defining platform for contemporary art practiceacross the Middle East region. Art Dubai 2010is held in partnership with the private equitygroup Abraaj Capital and continues to enjoysupport from its sponsors. Based at thestunning beachside Madinat Jumeirah Resort,Art Dubai 2010 offers visitors the most extensiveprogram of contemporary art exhibitions andevents to date. Highlights of Art Dubai 2010will include the return of the acclaimed GlobalArt Form, the second annual Abraaj CapitalArt Prize “The Poetry of Time”, a prestigiouswatch exhibition curated by Van Cleef & Arpels,Art park, and contemparabia 2010. In addition,Art Dubai has invited not-for-profit artsorganization Bidoun Projects to curate itsprogram of special projects highlighting theimportantance of collaboration in the region.www.artdubai.ae

Pablo Picasso. The Bull, state VII (Le Taureau). December 26,1945. Lithograph. Composition 12 x 17 1/2" (30.5 x 44.4 cm). Sheet12 15/16 x 17 1/2" (32 x 44.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art.Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund. © 2009 Estate of PabloPicasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Chris Ofili, Afrodizzia, 1995

Lucian Freud, Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait), 1965/© Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza / photo : JosÈ Loren /Lucian Freud

Theo Van Doesburg, Simultaneous Counter-Composition (1929ñ30)Photograph: Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney andHarriet Janis Collection, 1967