Public Artwork
Les quatre éléments
Location:
Bibliothèque Simone-L.-Roy, 500 rue de la Grande-Allée, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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Alternate title:
Les quatre éléments
Artwork creator(s):
Laquerre, Dominique
Text author(s):
Laquerre, Dominique
Installation year:
1991
Remarks on location:
The work is installed in the central atrium of the library.
Description:
The installation consists of paintings on wooden panels and a metallic structure. The paintings cover the upper part of four of the library's columns. They evoke the elements of nature - water, air, earth and fire - as well as various elements of the Pointe-du-Lac landscape (contours of the banks, flight of migrating birds). Text excerpts were pasted to the transparent strata of different paintings. They refer to a combination of natural elements and fields of knowledge, as chosen by the artist - fire/applied science; water/imagination and fiction; earth/practical knowledge; air/spirituality. A green steel structure is anchored between two columns, representing a cantilever bridge.
Text of the artwork:
Excerpts from pasted text:
d'expliquer, de / cheminement intérieur / s'accomplir à / [•••] sang / [•••] / avec la vie le poète et [•••]
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Text theme:
Nature, Knowledge
Artwork theme:
Nature, Knowledge
Artist's biography:
Dominique Laquerre
Owner(s):
Ville de Trois-Rivière
Architect(s):
Bigué, Michel Document(s):
Syndicate
