Robert Goguen - le député dormant

MARIO DOUCETTE, Robert Goguen - le député dormant, encre et crayons aquarelle sur papier, 2015

Monsters - Galerie Abyss, Montréal QC

Autobus bilingues au Nouveau-Brunswick

MARIO DOUCETTE, Autobus "bilingues", encre et graphite sur papier, 2015

Getting naked - THEMUSEUM, Kitchener ON

MARIO DOUCETTE, 1755 (la chasse aux anges), 2007

Opens March 7

The Canadian Council Art Bank has been collecting work by the best Canadian artists of our time for over forty years, becoming the world's largest collector of contemporary Canadian art. The Art Bank shares its collection through art rental and outreach programs which sees approximately 3,000 works on display at various locations each year. But rarely are the works that depict subjects who are naked, nude, or unclothed exhibited, pieces which make up a large percentage of their collection.

THEMUSEUM is displaying almost a hundred of these works that range in date, media, subject and styles. The exhibit encourages the audience to explore themes that will differentiate the pieces from those conventionally considered objectifying, pornographic or controversial. It is designed to educate, entertain and give viewers an engaging experience to explore contemporary Canadian art that the country has been so reluctant to publicly display.These unique works will challenge perceptions, create discussion and ultimately determine : do you GET Naked?

THEMUSEUM
10 King St. W
Kitchener, ON

http://www.THEMUSEUM.ca

Oh, Canada - Glenbow Museum, Calgary AB

Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America

JANUARY 31 - APRIL 26 2015

Organized by MASS MoCA, Curated by Denise Markonish

This exhibition is vast in scope and size - so big that no one gallery space in Calgary is large enough to host all of it. Glenbow is proud to partner with Esker Foundation, Illongworth Kerr Gallery and Nickle Galleries to bring the epic Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America to Calgary.

Oh, Canada is the creation of American curator Denise Markonish and is the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever produced outside the country. The artists she selected explore ideas that could inhabit the heart of any Canadian. There are works that explore landscape and its powerful hold on the Canadian psyche; dread and bravery in the exploration of the uncanny; Aboriginal identity and the on-going effects of colonialism; traditions of storytelling; the idea of the North; the Canadian cultural mosaic; a return to craft and more.

Glenbow's installation features artists from every corner of the country: Nunavut's Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootogook, British Columbia's Douglas Coupland, Saskatchewan's Wally Dion, Manitoba's Divya Mehra, Ontario's Shary Boyle, Quebec's Patrick Bernatchez, New Brunswick's Mario Doucette and Albertans Terrance Houle and Eric Cameron, to name just a few.

Check out the exhibition website www.ohcanadayyc.com for artist bios and a calendar of events and programs related to the exhibition.

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Dans cette vidéo, l'artiste Mario Doucette parle de son oeuvre dans Surgir de l'ombre : La biennale canadienne 2014, présentement à l'affiche au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. In this video, artist

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Mario Doucette discusses his work, currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada as part of Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014.

le jacshow

Le jacshow est un rendez-vous bimensuel télévisuel, une aventure en création de contenus, une exploration de l'univers des créateurs acadiens et une plateforme de diffusion pour l'art d'ici. Animé par l'artiste multidisciplinaire Jac Gautreau, accompagné de Sébastien Michaud à la direction musicale et de Jonah Haché aux images, le jacshow recevra chaque semaine des artistes de divers disciplines, des chroniqueuses et chroniqueurs passioné.e.s et des critiques aguerris.

Voilà le tout premier épisode du Jacshow sur le réseau de Community One chez BellAliant! Les invités : l'artiste visuel Mario Doucette, le poète et dramaturge Joannie Thomas, la critique culturelle Sarah Brideau et en prestation musicale Caroline Savoie.

JACSHOW EP 1- Mario Doucette from jac gautreau on Vimeo.