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Pure metallic element having symbol Al and atomic number 13; a hard, strong, silver white metal.

Monument à la Pointe

Gills Mihalcean, Monument à la pointe, 2001Gills Mihalcean, Monument à la pointe, 2001
Monument commemorating the district of Pointe-Saint-Charles and its inhabitants. It is shaped like a boat, evoking maritime transfers. Three wooden beams support a triangular element. Its three layers [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mihalcean, Gilles
Installation year: 
2001

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Richard Purdy, Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz…, 1994
Two aluminium murals feature engraved letters and calligraphy symbols. The metallic surface is textured and krinkled, making it difficult to read. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Purdy, Richard
Installation year: 
1994

Allô, les voyelles

Gilbert Poissant, Allô, les voyelles, 1998. © Gilbert Poissant
Six round murals in three different formats, all slightly textured and in bright colours (blue, red, yellow). The mural displaying the letters "e", "a" and "u" are located at two intersecting walls. O [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Poissant, Gilbert
Installation year: 
1998

Vox non echo

Gilbert Poissant, Vox non echo, 1999
The round mural consists of three earthenware pieces painted with aluminum strips. It features two steel blue half-moons and a white square in the middle, along with a few touches of red and yellow. T [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Poissant, Gilbert
Installation year: 
1999

Ô

Élisabeth Mathieu, Ô, 2004
Hanging sculpture consisting of two components made of a series of glass trapezes and parallelograms that feature silk-screened motifs representing water and that are set in a structure. Attached to t [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mathieu, Élisabeth
Installation year: 
2004

La preuve

Élisabeth Mathieu, La preuve, 2004
Sculpture consisting of two structures hanging from six cables. Placed one in front of the other, the structures are vertically intertwined, forming a spiral. Each is made of eight parallelograms, six [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mathieu, Élisabeth
Installation year: 
2004

Transcription 92

Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992
The mural unfolds on the 18 glass panels of a curtain wall and on a painted drywall surface mounted on the adjacent wall. Evoking a musical staff, each glass panel features 5 superimposed words. They [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lemieux, Lisette
Installation year: 
1992

Kristallnacht (Nuit de cristal)

Lisette Lemieux, Kristallnacht, 2003Lisette Lemieux, Kristallnacht, 2003
The artwork is shaped as a frieze panel and installed along three of the lobby's walls. The black frieze panel is pierced with words in French, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The cut-out first layer ope [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lemieux, Lisette
Installation year: 
2003

Les voyelles. « Salut Rimbaud »

Pierre Leblanc, Les voyelles, 1990
A different sculpture tops each of the columns in a colonnade. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Leblanc, Pierre
Installation year: 
1990

Les Allusifs

Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, Les Allusifs, 2002Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, Les Allusifs, 2002Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, Les Allusifs, 2002
The work is composed of eight stainless steel sculptures on a platform with embedded steel strips. The sculptural elements refer to the history of the districts of Saint-Henri and Sainte-Cunégonde - m [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Jarnuszkiewicz, Jacek
Installation year: 
2002
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