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| A guided tour to see the seedlings at L'Esplanade Tranquille Quartier des Spectacles Photo © Lena Ghio, 2023 |
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On a gorgeous spring day, I visited l'Esplanade Tranquille in Quartiers des Spectacles, the heart of Montreal, to visit the inauguration of the rooftop garden. This will be the second year that a team of farmers managed by AU/LAB, each with their own speciality and enterprise, will use the roof to plant edibles and florals for exploration and technological and technical research in roof gardening plant in the city. Above you can see the new sprouts adapting to city life. These fresh products will work their way into the surrounding restaurants to offer freshly picked produce to their patrons.
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| Paola Saavedra from Fleurs en Ville, Stephan Senghor from Biome et Micheline Sylvestre from Emporium Safran Québec |
INDIGENOUS COLOMBIA • an unveiling before the big exhibition coming in June 2023
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| Erell Hubert, curator for Colombian art at MMFA with massive carved stone. Photo © Lena Ghio, 2023 |
Meanwhile, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invited us to witness the unveiling of a massive sculpture that came from the famous San Agustin Archaeological Park in Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The curator and archeologist Erell Hubert shared some fascinating facts about the 400 pieces we will see in the exhibition. For example, the pieces are not named nor dated nor are they assigned, as far as anyone can tell, to a named deceased person whose eternal soul they are guarding.
This exhibition will compel you to use your intuition, your feelings and your imagination to perceive meaning and insight from the mystical objects that will fill the space.
I am so excited about this exhibition because it, with the Egyptian exhibition going on at Pointe à Callière, pit the two principal views of magic that humanity has embraced against each other with magical sculptures. They reveal an obsession with eternal life of ancient people approached from two diametrically opposed points of view, from two different continents.
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