This coming Saturday, November 5th, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be hosting its 56th annual Ball of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which is expected to be attended by a record number of visitors this year as over 930 tickets have been sold for this event this year.
With this year’s Ball’s theme being “Dessine-moi la paix” (“Draw me peace”), the organizers of the event asked a number of local artists – musicians, writers and actors – to each write a text about peace, which will then serve local visual arts artists as inspiration to create settings for the Ball dining rooms.
Among the artists invited to write their texts about peace were for instance singer and song-writer Rufus Wainwright, presenter and story-teller Boucar Diouf, actress Karine Vanasse, rapper Samian, author Kim Thuy, duo Michel Lemieux & Victor Pilon and also the members of the band Simple Plan.
The yet unreleased text about peace that Simple Plan submitted for the purposes of this event, has been turned into art by Canadian artist Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, who specializes in installation, sculpture and photography. According the the Museum’s press release, the peace-inspired text by Simple Plan inspired Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron to create a “space with interacting lighting grids that are suspended over the guests’ heads and move from one room to the other.”
The Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Ball will inagurate the Michal & Renata Hornstein “Pavillion for Peace” installation (to be opened to public on November 19th), which is one of the first legacies to mark Montreal’s 375th anniversary. With regard to this anniversary, which is coming up in 2017, Simple Plan have already been named the very first Honourable Montrealers last year.
More information about Simple Plan’s text and hopefully also some photos of the srtistic outcome of this piece should be revealed after the event.