Exciting! Thrilling!
Ballade pour la Paix, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Installation, was overwhelming!
It made you want to dance in the street!
26 flags, from 26 different countries flying and flapping in the wind!
A carnival spirit had overtaken ‘elegant’ Sherbrooke St.
A carnival spirit which was imprinting on all participants – subliminally – the inclusiveness of all countries, all cultures.
The essence of inclusivity: ‘Interdimensional’, no longer simply multidimensional.
A frontal attack on colonialism’s celebration of the white man and his conquest of all other cultures and peoples.
The Picasso Exhibition, in the summer of 2018, also incorporated this awareness of inclusivity.
The first thing that greeted the visitor were the roots for Picasso's revolutionary art, which broke so violently from the dominant traditions at the time in art.
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African sculpture!. A shock which attacked the absolute hold on our way of looking at the world!
The Installation, the Picasso Exhibition, were not one shot deals.
They are part of a spotlight in the Museum focused on inclusivity, of all peoples, of all cultures.
For 2019, the sixth Pavilion will be opened on the 4th floor of the grand first building of the Museum.
A new wing for World Cultures and Togetherness!
And as part of this project, the Museum in partnership with McGill University will celebrate the Treaty of 1721,
a great Treaty for Peace with the first nations 3 centuries ago.
Once again Sherbrooke St. will vibrate with joy, with color...and with fun!I But underneath......
Nathalie Bondil comments,
"The installations are a cultural tool for solving political and togetherness issues.
A smooth, natural empathetic tool for building bridges.
I share Isaac Newton's belief:
‘Bridges unite. Walls divide.'"
