Paul-Desmarais Theater
26 February 2020, 7:00pm
Paul-Desmarais Theater
On Sunday 3 Dec we invite you to discover or rediscover our exhibitions, with youth and family programming starting at 1pm
3 December 2023, 1pm to 6pm
Tours, stories, and screenings on Free Sunday
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On Sunday 3 Dec we invite you to discover or rediscover our exhibitions, with youth and family programming starting at 1pm
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
18 October 2006 to 10 June 2007
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow
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Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
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What the future looked like
Shaughnessy House
3 December 2023, 3pm
Shaughnessy House
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
11 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010
Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
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Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
7 December 2023, 6:30pm
Documents of Displacement III
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Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
22 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: First Office
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Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.