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Montreal, June 14 2011 – The 12th edition of the FIMA (Festival International Montréal en Arts) has in store for you a diversified and international program that is filled with images and movement, great encounters and discoveries from June 29 to July 3. Over 100 exhibiting artists from Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Argentina will wait for you on the BoulevArt, on Ste. Catherine Street East, between St. Hubert and Papineau. Dozens of performers, movie makers and multimedia artists coming from Quebec, Germany, Malaysia, Argentina, Ontario, Turkey and the United States will present their moving and living art.
« The FIMA is showcasing many great talents from all regions of Quebec… We can be proud of the richness of our Quebec artists! », says Paul Haince, president of the SPDAC, the Society for Promotion and Distribution of Arts and Culture, which launched the FIMA in 2000.
By participating to the Public’s Choice Award, the festival-goers run a chance to win an artwork from their favourite artist! Many other prizes will be handed out, like the juried prizes and the Discovery Prize at the Award Ceremony which will take place at the Cabaret à Mado (1115 Ste.Catherine Street East), on Sunday, July 3, at 8:00 p.m.
New this year on the BoulevArt: one portion of the street will be dedicated to emerging artists, who run a chance to win the Emerging Artist Prize handed by Kalibre, an organization aiming to promote and produce emerging artists.
On the program this year…
The FIMA is happy to welcome for the first time in Montreal the international project My True Whisper of Skin by Isabel Caccia, from Argentina. The artist will build a giant labyrinthine web in the parc Serge- Garant (behind metro Beaudry) with the help of the public and their… pantyhose! That’s right! Isabel will offer you a nail polish in exchange for your stockings. You will also be able to participate to the construction of the web, and walk through it like a spider.
BRING YOUR NYLONS AND SPREAD THE WORD!
The French artist from Germany, Julie Jaffrennou, will present Carnation, a solo piece about the discrepancy between the human body and its many representations in western society. She will wear a second skin made of latex that she will cut with scissors and then sew back with a needle in very tight seams. The artist collective EN MASSE will create a giant painting at the parc de l’Espoir under the direction of Jason Botkin and Rupert Bottenberg.
Two artists from the SAT[Mixsessions] collective, jocool (Joseph Lefèvre) and TIND (Francis Théberge) will create a multimedia installation that will occupy the storefront of the Albatroz boutique, located at 1205 Ste. Catherine Street East for the whole duration of the FIMA. They will give a live performance on Friday, July 1, at 9:00 p.m.
« We are proud to present to the public talented artists from all backgrounds. There is something for everybody in this multidisciplinary and multisensory edition. A true celebration of the visual arts in all their diversity” says Paul Haince.
Don’t miss the greatest outdoor art event in Quebec and eastern Canada! For more information, visit www.festivaldesarts.org. The official program will be available starting June 14.
ABOUT THE FIMA
The FIMA (Festival International Montréal en Arts) is the greatest open air art gallery in eastern Canada.
The BoulevArt expands over a one-kilometre stretch of Montreal’s central artery, Ste. Catherine Street, closed to the automobile traffic all summer. The FIMA offers festival-goers a unique opportunity to meet artists from various backgrounds, professionals and emerging artists, and to purchase artworks directly from the artists (without going through a gallery or an agent). More than an exhibition, FIMA offers a rich and diversified program: short film projections, multimedia performances, live painting and multidisciplinary performances. Over 100 000 people walk on the BoulevArt everyday. |
