Scale Matters is a two-part exhibition series focusing on certain artists’ preference for either very large or very small formats. The first part, Thinking Big, presented last fall about fifteen imposing large-scale works from the Museum’s collection. In this second installment, entitled Short and Sweet, nearly 80 small-scale works are displayed in the gallery. Paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, artists’ books, ceramics, Pre-Columbian artifacts, ivories—the selection spans eras and mediums with remarkable richness. Landscape is a central component of the exhibition, though other themes are also present: words within artworks, abstraction, and more. A wide range of artists have been selected: Ozias Leduc, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté, as well as Natalia Goncharova and Pablo Picasso. Among contemporary artists are Pierre Gauvreau, Claude Tousignant, Rita Letendre, Raymonde April, and Ève Cadieux, an artist from the Lanaudière region. The exhibition, curated by Pascale Beaudet and France Gascon, is a production of the Musée d’art de Joliette and received financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Curators: Pascale Beaudet and France Gascon