Vent bleu

Vent bleu

Maude Arès, Mykalle Bielinski, Horizon Factory, Sam Francis, Guido Molinari, Anne-Marie Proulx

This exhibition is structured around Vent bleu (1995), a major work by Guido Molinari composed of five monumental panels. Now part of the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the work will be presented at the Guido Molinari Foundation thirty years after its inaugural exhibition, in the space that once served as the artist’s studio. Arranged in a semicircle, the panels create a stage-like environment that encourages encounters between visual and performing arts through new creations in dialogue with this emblematic work. Inspired by the ethereal dimension of Vent bleu, the exhibition proposes a conversation between Molinari’s geometric abstraction and the human experience of wind. The result of an exceptional collaboration between the MNBAQ and the Guido Molinari Foundation, the exhibition offers a contemplative and immersive experience of a work not shown in Montreal since 1997. The exhibition explores the multiple identities of wind—as a natural element, a force of movement, a vital breath, a bodily experience, and a poetic voice. Contemporary artists create new works that seek to document, translate, and perform this elusive element: photographer Anne-Marie Proulx, multidisciplinary artist Maude Arès, singer-songwriter, performer, and composer Mykalle Bielinski, the multidisciplinary duo Horizon Factory (Erin Hill and Nina Vroemen).