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FIFA — Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier + Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos

Name: FIFA — Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier + Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos
Start: 2026-03-12T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z
Location: Satosphere

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Immersive experiences

In collaboration with FIFA, SAT and Hubblo present a double bill of immersive films dedicated to two exceptional painters: Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier, premiering, followed by Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos.

Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier

Step into a vibrant universe of flowing colours connecting our spirits to the cosmos and all of creation through the art of the late Alex Janvier (1935-2024). A trailblazer in contemporary Indigenous Art, Janvier’s signature visual language refused to be boxed in by the traditional frame of art galleries. Honouring his legacy and artistic approach, Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier frees his work to flow and embrace audiences in a stunning 360-degree domed projection. Through immersive storytelling movement, nature, art, and limitless imagination merge with never heard before recordings from the great painter himself. From the Cold Lake First Nations, Treaty 6 Territory, Janvier’s artwork has always carried his perspective as a Denesuline man, reflecting his experiences, culture, and spirituality. Janvier’s words and work have captivated people around the world, showing us we all belong to this planet, and to each other.

Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos

Between pictorial brilliance and sonic vertigo, Orchestrating Chaos celebrates the work of visual artist Jacques Hurtubise in an immersive experience created by Normal Studio, enhanced by the original music of Hippie Hourrah. Presented in chronological order and highlighting the artist’s gestures, it allows viewers to get closer than ever to the carefully animated works, seeing and appreciating them like never before. Mirroring the frenzied exploration that drives Hurtubise’s art, the audience plunges into the splashes, probes the gestures, and follows the winding paths of creation. Divided into six cycles that trace key moments in the artist’s journey, the experience emphasizes the richness of this extraordinary body of work, which has left a mark on Canadian art history. Orchestrating Chaos exists at the intersection of two overlapping and merging worlds, seeking to offer a new way of experiencing this larger-than-life corpus.

Schedule

March 12, 2026 - March 20, 2026
*The March 11 screening has been postponed to March 12 due to the ice storm.

March 12, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 20 at 5:30PM

Duration: 53 minutes

Public

12 years + (at parents' discretion)

Alex Janvier

Alex Janvier (1935–2024) is a world-renowned Canadian Indigenous Artist from Treaty 6 territory, Alberta, Canada. His vibrant colours and distinctive lines tell you stories about his unique culture and life experiences. Alex is often known as a muralist as he has many commissioned works in public institutions across Canada. Alex has participated in many National and International exhibitions for several decades now. Alex has graciously garnered many accolades and recognitions from various organizations as a pioneer of Indigenous Modernist Art in Canada. Alex peacefully passed away at the age of 89. He painted almost everyday.

See Janvier Gallery's website

Bernard Duguay (Lucion)

Bernard is a happy blend of rigour and creativity. His career has taken him to positions as director, artistic director and set designer for numerous cultural, museum and corporate events. In 2000, he founded the multimedia production company Lucion Média, a studio that quickly became a source of inspiration and a creative hub for many new media artists and directors. His sensibility: integrating artisans capable of producing works of high artistic value. His signature: a gentle blend of poetry and technology.

See Lucion's website

Jacques Hurtubise

Jacques Hurtubise (1939-2014) was born in Montreal, Quebec, in February 1939. Freshly graduated from the Montreal School of Fine Arts in 1960, he moved to New York, where he discovered American Abstract Expressionism—a movement he would brilliantly integrate into his own artistic language. Through his large-scale paintings, screen printing, and digital printmaking, Hurtubise distinguished himself with the originality of his approach, the complexity of his compositions, and his masterful use of color. Over five decades, his bold and distinctive body of work was exhibited across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Jacques Hurtubise passed away in December 2014 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Hippie Hourrah

Hippie Hourrah is a Montreal-based neo-psychedelic band consisting of Cédric Marinelli, Miles Dupire-Gagnon, and Gabriel Lambert. Backed on stage and in the studio by a rotating cast of collaborators, the trio brings together musicians who have played in acts like Anemone, Elephant Stone, and Les Marinellis. They have travelled across America and Europe with these projects, producing some of the most acclaimed albums to come out of Quebec’s garage, pop, and psychedelic scenes over the past decade. Two years following their debut eponymous record in 2021, the trio released Exposition individuelle, a bold concept album inspired by and built around the work of late Quebec painter Jacques Hurtubise (1939–2014), earning widespread praise for its ambition and originality. Hippie Hourrah now brings Exposition individuelle to a close with the announcement of Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos, a large-scale immersive experience. Co-created with Normal Studio, the multimedia project will see animated versions of Hurtubise’s paintings will be projected in 360° onto a dome-shaped screen, woven together with an original Hippie Hourrah soundtrack, set for release by Simone Records in June 2025 to coincide with the launch of the immersive experience.

See their website