...Fonderie Darling is a visual-arts venue that was founded and is directed by the not-for-profit art organization Quartier Éphémère, which has the mandate of supporting the creation, production, and dissemination...

Brian Jungen is interested in hybrid combinations and eclectic mixes from different cultures. He creates interfaces between distinct universes so apart that they collide while delivering a critical message...

Although Montréal was already the commercial centre of Canada by the late 18th century, the invention of the steam-powered engine in 1811 was the catalyst to the industrial revolution here, just as in...

The Tunnel event writes itself into the continuity of on-site interventions organized by Quartier Éphémère in the heart of the Faubourg des Récollets/Old Griffintown and on the shores of the Lachine Canal...

Incorporated in 1993 in the Sud-Ouest borough, district of Pointe-Saint-Charles, Quartier Éphémère is a non-profit cultural organization, recognized as a charity for the educating the public to contemporary...

Débraye : voitures à controverse is an exhibition which denounces the misdeed of the car on the natural, social and psychologic environment. The Visuals Art Center Quartier Éphémère/ Darling Foundry had...

Jean-Pierre Aubé regards his work as an artist as one of research, as a creative process akin to that of the scientist. He is inspired by his environment, and his works are based on natural phenomena...

Governors Jocelyne Alloucherie, ArtistCaroline Andrieux, Founder and Artistic Director, Quartier Éphémère/Fonderie Darling G. Pierre Lapointe, President, Familial Granite Inc.Clément Demers, Consultant...

Suzanne Dery and Anthony Burnham started to collaborate in 1993. Both multimedia artists were then students at Concordia University in Montreal. Since 1995, the Flators create inflatable sculptures together...

The reverence Quartier Éphémère has for silo n°5 has been omnipresent since the founding of the association at 16 de la rue Prince. That majestic and emblematic industrial building, facing the front of...

Traces from the past are too often brutally erased, radically eliminated from our visual environment. In our society of extreme hygiene, that seeks to modernize and regulate everything leaving little...

Quartier Éphémère presents at the Darling Foundry two major works by Carmen Ruschiensky. Dramatically opposed in the manner of their making, in a monumental format and infused with a taste for culinary...

Christoph Brech presents an impressive video-graphic work at the Darling Foundry. His remarkable meditative piece accompanied with its interpretation by Dmitri Shostakovich and the Symphony for the Orchestra...

In 2019, the organization Quartier Éphémère aims to make a historical transaction by acquiring Fonderie Darling's main building from the City of Montreal. In order to do so, a crowdfunding campaign was...

The playful and provocative spirit of Buy-sellf is travelling all the way to Montreal this summer, carrying in its passionate wake thirty or so Canadian and French artists. From July 8 to August 31st...

Light Sensors The fragile installation My darling of Karilee Fuglem subtly engages the industrial architecture of the old foundry. The artist responds to the expansiveness and ampleness of the place with...

Since 1994, Quartier Éphémère has promptly supported the practice of Mathieu Beauséjour. By developing a "semiotic terrorism" his conceptual work engages others through a redirecting of the object. In...

Holding a Ph.D. in Art History from the Sorbonne (Paris) jointly with UQAM (Contemporary Art), Caroline Andrieux is particularly interested in consolidating artists’ presence in the city and in affirming...

PRESENTATION The Fonderie Darling is a visual arts center housed in an outstanding industrial building located in the west end of Old Montreal. Founded in 2002 and administrated by the non-profit organization...

Quartier Éphémère presents an exhibition of recent works by Anthony Burnham. Although the title of the show recalls the programmatic, even utopic spirit which traditionnally fostered the conception of...