Rodney Graham @ MACM * Poutine @ Patati Patata

Hope you all spent a nice New Year's Eve? We spent it quietly, just the 2 of us with a vast smorgasbord of tapas, cava, vino tinto and Single Malt ;-))
We already uncorked our first bottle of bubbles to celebrate with our parents at 6pm (so midnight in Belgium). And the sky is the limit with modern technology, so we had front row seats for the Wuustwezel Fireworks through webcam and surround sound.
Next day, our 2 godchildren Senne & Robbe, commonly referred to as "The Rascals", read out their New Year's Letters through Skype.

And then it was back 2 work. On wednesdaynight we went to the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal for our first cultural injection of the year. Between 6 and 9pm on wednesday's there is no entrance fee. There was an excellent temporary exhibition of Rodney Graham. This BC (as in British Columbia) artist displays multidisciplinary conceptual work influenced by films, music and contemporary culture. But sometimes contemporary art is a bit "out there". But then again, maybe we need not take it so seriously.
I was especially intruiged by "Lobbing potatoes at a gong". A wall-wide projecton with loud stereo-sound shows the artist in front of an audience (that does not give a blink as such) sitting in a chair and throwing potatoes at a huge Chinese gong. Later on, all the potatoes were distilled into vodka and are part of the artwork. LOL


After this, it was time to fill the ol' stomach, so went to "Patati Patata" one of the best places in Montreal to have burgers and poutine.


Poutine like the Russian president? No, it's a Quebec signature dish: fries topped with melting cheese curds drenched in brown gravy. I got quite to like, although "Frut Special" will stay my all time favourite.

And now we need to start planning our next visit to IKEA, buying paint, coz Helena is moving out all her stuff somewhere around the 15th of Jan. So after the poutine, that will be the next big thing to tackle.

Have a good one!