Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth. Shuvinai Ashoona, Imaginary Creatures, 2016 Shuvinai Ashoona (Kinngait, Nunavut) Shuvinai Ashoona was born in 1961. She began to draw in 1993 and joined Kinngait’s […]
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Whether they depict starry skies or spider webs, Vija Celmins’s hyperrealist drawings are attempts to grasp the universe’s immensity, one detail at a time. Vija Celmins, Untitled (Large Night Sky), 2016 Vija Celmins (Riga, Latvia) Born in 1938 in Riga, Lithuania, Vija Celmins completed […]
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde The gloomy worlds of this artistic duo create phantasmagorical ecosystems on the verge of reality. The Who’s Haunts immerses the viewer in a house engulfed by the entropic forces of nature. Jim Shane Holyoak et Matt Shane, The Who’s Haunts, 2018 © Idra Labrie Jim Holyoak and […]