Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Mirror

Double Blind

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:44:13 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Hirsch, Antonia (Katharina)

Artwork creator(s):

Hirsch, Antonia (Katharina)

Text author(s):

Hirsch, Antonia (Katharina)

Text author(s):

Hirsch, Antonia (Katharina)

Installation year:

2008

Remarks on location:

In the atrium of the North building on the Broadway Campus

Artwork description

Source : Antonia Hirsch (2009). Selected Projects. Double Blind. (http://antoniahirsch.com/projects/double-blind/)

Description:

Convex, mirrored acrylic domes lay on a concrete wall spanning four stories and spelling out a "Snellen eye chart"—that familiar series of letters that many of us recognize from routine eye exams—as enormous braille letters. It is an "eye chart for the blind". A plaque next to the sculpture explains in braille the concept behind the work.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text theme:

Snellen eye chart

Artwork theme:

Cultural exclusion of the blind; power associated with sight and surveillance

Dimensions

Height:

13.7m

Width:

4.5m

Depth:

5 m

Other information

Note(s):

Double Blind is a large-scale sculptural installation commissioned for the atrium of the new Vancouver Community College’s Broadway Campus building. Double Blind is accompanied by a T-shirt that is available at the VCC Broadway Campus Bookstore. The T-shirt echoes the installation’s oxymoronic premise: those who can see the work likely don’t read braille, and those who read braille probably cannot see the work. Double Blind was created as part of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program.

Artist's biography:

Antonia Hirsch

Document(s):

Antonia Hirsch : Anthropometrics/Double Blind

Cantate

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:12:47 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Artwork creator(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Text author(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Text author(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Installation year:

2005

Artwork description

Martin, Tania (2008). Temple of music. Canadian Architect. (July 2008)

Description:

The artwork deploys over the sloping wall of the two floors dominating the main entrance hall. The work consists of a large, textured mural that was built with mirror-polished stainless steel cut-outs. It features black imprints on the metal parts as well as on the white back wall. Letters are hinted at throughout the work. Musical writings from various eras are superimposed onto this montage and shaped graphically into discs.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Musical vocabulary

Text theme:

Music

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

This mirror-artwork embraces its entire surroundings, offering a sensory experience of the architectural features that lets everyone choose their point of view. Reflections and plays on perception give the impression that the space increases tenfold. Its content gives rhythm to the comings and goings of the musicians and spectators when the place becomes very busy on concert nights.

Artist's biography:

Rose-Marie E. Goulet

Architect(s):

Consortium M.U.S.E.

Source:

mailto:gouletrm@mlink.net

Document(s):

TEMPLE OF MUSIC

Intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2004-2007

Scopes of Site

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:23:48 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Anholt, Jill

Artwork creator(s):

Anholt, Jill

Text author(s):

Anholt, Jill

Text author(s):

Anholt, Jill

Installation year:

2003

Remarks on location:

Cascina/Denia residential property, near the towers; corner plaza of Nicola and Hastings Streets

Artwork description

Source: Price, Gordon (2005). A Walk with Barbara Cole. Art public. Price Tags Magazine, no. 77 (9 october), p. 28

Source: Jill Anholt Studio (2008). Projects. Scopes of Site. (http://www.jillanholt.ca/projects/scopes-of-site)

Description:

The sculpture takes its form from periscopes and telescopes as instruments used for discovering what lay below the surface.

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Text of the artwork:

(Incomplete)

1881 Spratt’s floating oilery in Coal Harbour uses dynamite
to extract herring from the water. After only a few years,
the herring stops coming.
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1884 The finest trees felled from the site are milled to 700m
Square by 34 m long then shipped to China to build the
Imperial Palace.

Text theme:

Exploitation of local natural resources

Artwork theme:

Past, present and future of the site; exploitation of local natural resources

History

History:

Completed in 2002. Installed in 2003.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

• Budget: $84,500
• Sponsoring organization: ASPAC Development
• Private development.

Artist's biography:

Jill Anholt

Document(s):

A Walk with Barbara Cole. Art public

Portfolio. Public Art

Projects. Scopes of Site

Community Services. Cultural Services. Public Art Registry. Artwork: Scopes of Site

Le lieu de la présence

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:21:57 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Blain, Dominique

Artwork creator(s):

Blain, Dominique

Text author(s):

Blain, Dominique

Text author(s):

Blain, Dominique

Remarks on location:

Overlooks the Place Paul-Émile Borduas

Artwork description

Source: MCCCQ (2008). Intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2004-2007. Québec: MCCCQ

Description:

The artist created an installation incorporating three elements. The words "You are here,", which figure prominently on tourist maps, are engraved in the center of the window pane. On the hall's lateral wall, a mirror reflects this inscription. Silhouettes of walking people from all over the world form a pattern that repeats itself throughout the glass wall. On the top of the tables made available to users, various historical maps of Montreal indicate the exact location of the building within environments that have evolved over time.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Vous êtes ici

Text theme:

Underlines the contingency of being in a place marked by its architecture, in a street designed by the surrounding buildings or, on a larger scale, in a province whose inhabitants speak the language used the artist.

Artwork theme:

Self-consciousness within a specific space

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The artist has added a mirror on the wall that shows the reverse side of the words which, from inside, appear to be written in reverse. "A simple sentence, universally used, which is found on all city maps and which operates as a logo, is the central segment of the glass wall."

MCCCQ. (2008). Intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2004-2007. Québec: Gouvernement du Québec.

Artist's biography:

Dominique Blain

Owner(s):

BAnQ

Document(s):

Œuvres de passage

Intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2004-2007

Champ de lumière en mémoire de Gaston Miron et Pablo Neruda

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:18:56 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Hogue, Daniel

Artwork creator(s):

Hogue, Daniel

Text author(s):

Miron, Gaston; Neruda, Plabo

Text author(s):

Miron, Gaston

Neruda, Plabo

Installation year:

2005

Artwork description

Source: Derouin, Fondation (2007). Les jardins du précambrien. (http://jardinsduprecambrien.com/accueil.php)

Description:

Mirrors that have been placed on the ground, trace poems by Gaston Mirron and Pablo Neruda in braille.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

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Text of the artwork:

Gaston Miron and Pablo Neruda poems

Artwork theme:

The chiasmus of the visible and the invisible.

History

History:

Established in 1995, the year of its first international symposium, the Fondation Derouin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to:

hold artistic gatherings on various topics, with a particular emphasis on socially integrated art and relations with the public
welcome visual artists from throughout the Americas in order to foster North-South dialogue and artistic exchanges

Event date(s):

2005

Dimensions

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Document(s):

Les jardins du précambrien, exposition à Val-David, art contemporain

Les jardins du Précambrien : symposiums internationaux d'art in situ 2001-2006

Aux confins de l’œuvre / Art on the Edge

Le miroir aux alouettes

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:07:33 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Artwork creator(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Text author(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Text author(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Installation year:

2004

Artwork description

Source: Jean-Yves Vigneau (2009). Miroir aux alouettes. (http://www.vigjy.net/artiste/miroir.htm)

Source: Daigneault, Gilles (2005). Il faut cultiver notre jardin…. Espace, no.71, (Printemps/Spring), p. 40-42

Source: Jean-Yves Vigneau (2009). Miroir aux alouettes. (http://www.vigjy.net/artiste/miroir.htm)

Description:

On a sort of raft (itself the extension of a small dock), a two-sided mirror rotates in the wind. It reflects the surrounding landscape, showing multiple points of views but always returning to the lake, the watery mirror. With these multiple twists, images of the landscape cling to our eye as objects of fascination or decoys, catching our attention or leaving us distracted or indifferent.

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Text of the artwork:

Le miroir aux alouettes

Text theme:

The environment

Artwork theme:

Reflection of the surrounding landscape, showing us multiple points of views, all referring to the lake, that watery mirror

History

History:

From October 5 to 15, the Association acadienne des artistes professionnels du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Millennium Ecological Park of the University of Moncton, organized a Symposium. The theme of the meeting, Art nature, ecology and society, served as a guideline for artists invited to create artworks

Event date(s):

2004

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Jean-Yves Vigneau

Document(s):

Absorption- deuxième œuvre permanente dans le Parc écologique du millénaire

Il faut cultiver notre jardin…

Ex/Diamond

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:12:03 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Gartley, Vera

Artwork creator(s):

Gartley, Vera

Text author(s):

Gartley, Vera

Text author(s):

Gartley, Vera

Installation year:

1993

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Daniel Lindley

Description:

The artist wanted to transform a dark corner with light and a story. The text portion of her installation invites the viewer into a conversation between the artist and the maker of the lettering. In doing so, the viewer can gain some insight into the process of making this work.

The work is also based on the numbers 0 and 1. These numbers represent the basis of the mathematical Binary System used to control the Binary circuitry inside modern computers.

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Text of the artwork:

Yeaaah, I got your information the other day, you went ahead with the bigger one, the four footer.

The four footer yes and....

So that's great, Teo, ILL call you later today

Al right Y.

Dimensions

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Note(s):

When Calgary artist Vera Gartley learned of the competition to liven up the Plus 15 system with art, she chose to transform this dark corner with light, reflections and a story. The competition was sponsored by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation.

Fugue en… Mineur

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Artwork creator(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Text author(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Text author(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Installation year:

1998

Remarks on location:

The artwork is located on the ground floor, in the waiting area.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007) Rose-Marie E. Goulet. (http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=fr)

Description:

The artwork consists of high reliefs and one mirror that blend in with the architectonic elements by bringing together two angled walls. Sentences written in blue letters and differents fonts run along the walls, like ascending and descending diagonal waves. Text appears sometimes legible, sometimes upside down and therefore, illegible.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Texts suggest ideas to reflect upon or are excerpts from children's nursery rhymes and stories or comments made by teenagers in difficulty.

Text theme:

Childhood, Adolescence

Artwork theme:

Passage of time, course of life

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Rose-Marie E. Goulet

Owner(s):

Centre Jeunesse de Montréal (CJM-IU), Mont Saint-Antoine

Document(s):

Projets, archives et documents

Untitled

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:34:25 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

An Explosion of Letters

Artwork creator(s):

Effets publics : Goulet, Rose-Marie E.; Paiement, Alain; Randy, Saharuni; Denis, Bernard; Bellavance, Guy

Artwork creator(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Paiement, Alain

Randy, Saharuni

Denis, Bernard

Bellavance, Guy

Text author(s):

Effets publics : Goulet, Rose-Marie E.; Paiement, Alain; Randy, Saharuni; Denis, Bernard; Bellavance, Guy

Text author(s):

Goulet, Rose-Marie E.

Paiement, Alain

Randy, Saharuni

Denis, Bernard

Bellavance, Guy

Collaborator(s):

Bellavance, Guy (sociologist); Denis, Bernard (technician design); Goulet, Yvon (engineer)

Installation year:

1992

Artwork description

Source: University Corcordia (2008). Public art collection. (http://web2.concordia.ca/publicart/works/goulet.php)

Description:

This large installation is spread over four sites: from the square in front of the building; in the lobby; above the main staircase; and in the reading rooms of the library. A spiral unifies the different parts. The central column, located in the building's lobby, is covered with mirrors and looks like an infinite screw. Taking into account the location, the piece constantly stresses linguistic references by including fragments of text in different languages, letters and signs.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Artwork theme:

Linguistic references

History

History:

Commissioned for the opening of the library in 1992.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Effets Publics is the name of the group of artists formed in 1989 to organize the national competition to build the Concordia University Library.

Artist's biography:

Rose-Marie E. Goulet

Architect(s):

Werleman; Blouin, Guy et Associés architects

Source:

Vincent Ouellette, Service des archives de l’Université Concordia

Document(s):

Le programme du 1% : une première décennie qui donne matière à fêter

Projets, archives et documents

If public art is the measure of society's greatness what does Montreal's new art suggest about our city ?

L’Inversion du monde

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:16:18 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Purdy, Richard

Artwork creator(s):

Purdy, Richard

Text author(s):

Purdy, Richard

Text author(s):

Purdy, Richard

Collaborator(s):

Hébert, François (assistant) ; Lebel, Jean (technical assistance)

Installation year:

1989

Remarks on location:

The installation is located in the lobby, under the rotunda.

Artwork description

Source: Purdy Richard (2009). Richard Purdy. (http://www.richardpurdy.ca/)

Description:

Sculptural and environmental installation featuring a floor mosaic, a suspended sculpture and a high relief affixed to the ceiling of the rotunda. First, a polychromic mosaic on the ground represents a gridded map of the world, where continents are shown as aquatic masses and the oceans as continents. Second, brass words are inlaid into the mosaic - Pacifica, Atlantica, Indica, Arctica. Third, suspended to the ceiling, a mirror crescent moon reflects the image of the Earth and hides a globe in its upper section. Last, a star protruding from the rotunda completes the composition.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Pacifica Atlantica Indica Arctica

Text theme:

The world

Artwork theme:

The art work as a whole evokes "imaginative thinking" by presenting a "world in reverse."

History

History:

The work was created from January to April 1989.

Dimensions

Diameter:

4.8m

Other information

Artist's biography:

Richard Purdy

Owner(s):

Productions Éloize

Document(s):

Le principe d’inversion chez Richard Purdy