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Poète en bâtiment

Michel Bujol, Poète en bâtiment, 1975. © Marie-Claude LangevinMichel Bujol, Poète en bâtiment, 1975. © Marie-Claude LangevinMichel Bujol, Poète en bâtiment, 1975. © Marie-Claude Langevin
A letter addressed to Jean Drapeau is painted on a brick wall. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bujold, Michel
Installation year: 
1975

Signatures

Marie-France Brière, Signatures, 2002. © Marie-Claude LangevinMarie-France Brière, Signatures, 2002. © Marie-Claude Langevin
The artwork is composed of three elements. Steel panels stand vertically on the floor. Marble plates are affixed to them in such a way as to evoke an open book. Each plate bears a signature in relief. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Brière, Marie-France
Installation year: 
2002

Les mots bleus

Guy Bourassa, Les mots bleus,1995
Two large painted surfaces. Two aluminum shapes: a face outlined in letters and a panel featuring a cutout hand writing a few letters. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bourassa, Guy
Installation year: 
1995

Suivre son étoile

Michel Bois, Suivre son étoile, 1992. © Josianne Gervais
Relief-painting on a rectangular wooden support. Wooden cutout figures are painted in bright colours, standing out against a black background. They represent, among others, an acrobat, a hand-balancer [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bois, Michel
Installation year: 
1992

C’est mon père qui m’a appris à lire

Danielle Binet, C'est mon père qui m'a appris à lire, 1995. © Pascale Beaudet
Eight black and white photographs are installed in the upper part of the walls. They represent types of printed material that can be found in a library: a novel, children's fairy tales, comic books, m [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Binet, Danielle
Installation year: 
1995

12 écriteaux au cou des arbres

Monique Bertrand, 12 écriteaux au cou des arbres, 2004
Twelve steel plates were suspended to trees. These plates were painted black with white markings. The inscriptions appeared sometimes as icons (star, crescent moon), sometimes as two dates on a tombst [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bertrand, Monique
Installation year: 
2004

Stèle

Sylvie L. Bergeron, Stèle, 1993 © Sylvie L. Bergeron
The artwork consists of a tombstone featuring a poem. Words are written on a plaque on the ground. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bergeron, Sylvie L.
Installation year: 
1993

Untitled

The artwork consists of a triptych. The first painting shows an embossed moon, linked to a text by Marcel Proust. The second painting shows water lilies. The last one represents a domestic scene. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Béliveau, Paul
Installation year: 
1993

La mémoire mythique

Luc Beauparlant, La mémoire mythique, 1998. © Luc Beauparlant
A sentence is written on the ground in the middle of the garden, the words forming two arches. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Beauparlant, Luc
Installation year: 
1998

Hommage à Gaétan Beaudin

On the ground, a square cement slab incorporates fragments of various pottery pieces. In the center, a plaque shows a quote from Gaétan Beaudin (1924-2002). [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Unknown Creator
Installation year: 
2002

L’histoire de la musique à Montréal

Frédéric Back, L’histoire de la musique à Montréal, 1967Frédérick Back, L’histoire de la musique à Montréal, 1967Frédéric Back, L’histoire de la musique à Montréal, 1967Frédéric Back, L’histoire de la musique à Montréal, 1967
The huge artwork consists of thousands of superimposed glass slats, lit by 105 tubes and supported by one tonne of steel. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Back, Frédéric
Installation year: 
1967

Double trompe-l’oeil

Pierre Ayot, Double trompe-l'oeil, 1990. © Marie-Claude Langevin
Sculptural installation composed of a text box and various three-dimensional objects, either reproduced in silkscreen or carved. In a frame, a document entitled "A false true story" explains the diffe [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Ayot, Pierre
Installation year: 
1990

Perfect Future / Ouverture

Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000Dejan Atanackovic, Perfect future/ouverture, 2000
For this artwork, the artist used three different media: a medium poster format throughout Québec City, a large format poster placed at the front entrance outside the Musée de la civilisation, and the [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Atanackovic, Dejan
Installation year: 
2000

Asphalt Garden

Michèle Adrian & Paula Meijerink, Asphalt Garden, 2003
Flooded paved courtyard. The artist played with the black opacity of asphalt vs the clear transparency of water, with their capacity to absorb or reflect light, with the constant immobility of the fir [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Adrian, Michèle; Meijerink, Paula (SE BUSCA)
Installation year: 
2003

Monument aux braves

Suzanne Silvercruys, Monument aux braves, 1948
This monument commemorates the brave Shawinigan men who fell in the fields of Flanders during the two wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The monument is modeled on tombstones of ancient Greece. A bronze [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Silvercruys, Suzanne
Installation year: 
1948