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Past Triennale Québécoise: Paradoxical Withdrawals

  Earlier in the century, the perpetually troubled MACM attempted to create a triennale Québécoise, which only managed to survive for two iterations (2008/2011). These were among the most ambitious attempts of the city’s art institutions to portray themselves as part of the international art world, to normalize itself in the festival model on the model of the Whitney Biennial. This also tied it even further into the tourist industry, which it was hardly distant from anyway. The first triennale set attendance records. René Blouin told La Presse that the latest crop of Contemporary Artists was decidedly different from the earlier ones: “‘For a long time there was a certain conceptual aridity in Québec art,’ he says, ‘but we’re really over that. The objects are well-made. There is a relationship to the body, to pleasure. Young artists are more erudite. It’s transdisciplinary. It’s a more generous planet that we are approaching. It speaks to us even if we are not specialists.” [Mario Cl