The Earth is Blue Like an Orange

September 14, 2010 to August 21, 2011

Less than a year ago, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
opened new galleries devoted exclusively to contemporary
art, doubling the exhibition space, with the intention of
displaying works from the Museum’s collection in unusual
theme-based presentations. The Earth is Blue like an Orange,
the second of these presentations of the contemporary arts
collection, will be shown from September 14, 2010 to March 27,
2011, in the galleries that have been reorganized thanks
to a major partnership with Loto-Québec.

As a counterpoint to the first installation, Global Warming:
Scenes from a Planet under Pressure, the Museum has opted
to bring together some thirty works informed with a sense
of the marvellous. Art can tell us about the present state
of things, fraught with reasons for anxiety, but it can also
choose to go beyond the factual nature of things and soar
into the world of the imagination. The Earth is Blue like
an Orange is comprised of photographs, paintings, sculptures,
installations, videos and models, by Canadian artists first
and foremost, but also by European, American and
Japanese artists. A number of these works, most of
them recently acquired, others on loan, open vistas in
which we viewers, now habitually nervous, can suddenly,
if briefly, see the world in a new light. Admission to the
exhibition is free at all times.

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1.
Erik Parker
Born in Stuttgart in 1968
Guru
2008 2009
Acrylic on canvas
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Janet and Bruce Bailey

2.
Patricia Piccinini
Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1965
Nest
2006
Fibreglass, automotive paint, scooter parts, leather
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, On loan from a private collection

3.
Carlos Garaicoa
Born in Havana in 1967
Yo nunca he sido surrealista hasta el día de hoy [I was never a Surrealist until today]
2008
Wood, cardboard, synthetic material, metal, electrical components, edition of 3
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Purchase, The Museum Campaign 1988 1993 Fund