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Robert Polidori: One Survey, Many Expansive Views

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal May 22 to Sep 7 2009
Robert Polidori <I>View from Citadel (Jabal al Qal'a) #1, Amman, Jordan</I> 1996 © Robert Polidori Robert Polidori View from Citadel (Jabal al Qal'a) #1, Amman, Jordan 1996 © Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori <I>View from Citadel (Jabal al Qal'a) #1, Amman, Jordan</I> 1996 © Robert Polidori

Born in Montreal in 1951, photographer Robert Polidori returns to the city this summer in an extensive survey exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal that spans his career since 1985. Renowned for his sensitivity to architecture and colour, the New York–based artist’s wide-ranging practice captures traces of human sensibility and history left behind in empty interiors. From early series on Cuba and Chernobyl, reproduced in the New Yorker where his work has appeared regularly, he has, in recent years, moved to document the destructions of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and finished up a long-running series on renovations to the Palace of Versailles. In 2006, his work was featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York but the Montreal show, curated by MACM director Paulette Gagnon, is his first retrospective. The show travels internationally beginning in October, accompanied by a handsome catalogue produced by the gallery. (185 rue Ste-Catherine O, Montreal QC)

Robert Polidori <I>Señora Faxas Residence #1, Miramar, Havana, Cuba</I> 1997 © Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori Señora Faxas Residence #1, Miramar, Havana, Cuba 1997 © Robert Polidori

This article was first published online on August 20, 2009.

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