Drive End: Martin Beauregard’s First Exhibition in a Museum

MONTREAL.- Through September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean‐Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum. Admission to the exhibition is free at all times. A drive‐in has been converted into an automobile graveyard. An old man with a dramatically lined face, wearing a cowboy hat, watches time go by. An empty screen glimmers in the twilight sky amid the rusty old jalopies. A sign identifies the location of the drive‐in, Val‐d’Or. The four images are enormous, three metres high and over seven metres long, and they glow like film projections. As the artist explains, “The installation offers several simultaneous viewpoints on the visible yet imaginary territory conjured up by what the images represent. The spatial la

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