Jason Gringler, Machine for Writing (Silver, Orange), 2007. Image: angellgallery.com

Pop Montreal is on from 3 - 7 October throughout the city. Click HERE for more information and full schedule.

As part of Pop, Art Pop presents five exhibitions that VoCA recommends checking out:

1. SONGS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Curated by David Liss (of Toronto’s MOCCA)
WHERE: Art Mûr (5826 St-Hubert)
WHEN: 6 oct - 3 nov.
OPENING: Oct. 6, 3pm - 5pm

John Nobrega, Kaiser II, 2006. Image: edwarddaygallery.com

Group show inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (1794), works that when read together reflect on estrangement from nature, the symptom of the corrupting forces of materialism and a terminal fear of mortality.

Michael Toke, Red Study, 2003. Image: 3.sympatico.ca

Actually, nevermind all that. Look for artists like Jubal Brown and Mat Brown, Jason Gringler, Raphael Iglesisas, Wil Murray, John Nobriega, Nick and Sheila Pye, Fiona Smyth and Michael Toke.

“There is nothing so dramatic and inspirational to ponder and express than the End of Everything.”

2. WIL MURRAY :: MACHINE MOLLE
Curated by Marie-Douce St-Jacques
WHERE: Notman House (51 Sherbrooke O.)
WHEN: 3 oct - 7 oct.
OPENING: Oct. 6, 6pm

Wil Murray’s canvases illustrate the metamorphosis of a tirelessly functional machine.

Wil Murray, Birthday Party Shouting Shooting, 2007. Image: wilmurray.com

Wil Murray, Robin Vote, 2006. Image: wilmurray.com

3. SUPERFANTASTIC ART SHOW
Curated by Candice Soave & Randy Albright
WHERE: Notman House (51 Sherbrooke O.)
WHEN: 3 oct - 7 oct.
OPENING: Oct. 6, 6pm

Artists: Benn Sena Da Silva, Natalie Conn, Frederico Ns, Daniel Heimbinder, RSA, Josh Wiles, AIDS 3D, Yves Schaum, Brian Pusey, Kyle Field, Pedro Faro, Adrien Casey

Daniel Heimbinder, Aircraft Carrier. Image: twofootedman.com

Superfantastic is a “nomadic exhibition organism” that provides emerging artists with the opportunity to show work outside the gallery-artschool-museum systems. Over the last ten years, they have exhibited selected objects, photographs, videos, paintings, prints and drawings in 20 international cities and over 100 artists.

4. PAVILION PROJECTS :: AMONG US

Transforming the festival’s walking circuit into an exhibition corridor with the works of Tom and Simon Bloor (UK), David Armstrong-Six and The Enterprise, Pavilion Projects is actively working to draw out the boundaries of the festival, further actualizing its temporary command of the city’s cultural currents.

David Armstrong-Six, TOO MUCH TIME, 2004. Image: greenerpasturesgallery.com

5. MUDBOY:: OTHERN LIGHTS (presented by FILM POP / présenté par FILM POP)
WHERE: Portuguese Association of Canada (4170 St-Urbain)
WHEN: Oct. 4

Dave Fischer, Othern Lights (5:10) Image: cca.org

Combining homemade electronic instruments with field recordings to create surround sound spellcasting environments, Othern Lights is a 7 minute immersive video experience.
Sound by mudboy, animation by David Fischer.

Dave Fischer, When Heaven is Full, The Dead Shall Walk The Earth (19:33). Image: cca.org