Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Plexiglas

Symbols of the Cuneiforms

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:44:29 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Thomas, Lionel; Thomas, Patricia; Lachnit, F.

Artwork creator(s):

Thomas, Lionel

Thomas, Patricia

Lachnit, F.

Text author(s):

Thomas, Lionel; Thomas, Patricia; Lachnit, F.

Text author(s):

Thomas, Lionel

Thomas, Patricia

Lachnit, F.

Installation year:

1960

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Marc André Brouillette

Description:

This artwork is a delicate metal bas-relief with plexiglas inserts. The white sections light up at night.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Cuneiform writing

Text theme:

Cuneiform writing was developed in Mesopotamia

Artwork theme:

Writing

History

History:

The piece was saved during the conversion of the old library in the mid-1990s.

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Lionel Thomas

Owner(s):

City of Vancouver

Document(s):

Public Art in Vancouver. Angels Among Lions

Stay Away From Lonely Places

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:35:00 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Terada, Ron

Artwork creator(s):

Terada, Ron

Text author(s):

Nelson, Willie

Text author(s):

Nelson, Willie

Installation year:

2005

Remarks on location:

Displayed on the gallery front

Artwork description

Source: Watson, Scott (2005), Intertidal : Vancouver Art & Artists, Vancouver : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Description:

Installation of words on the façade of a building

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

STAY AWAY
FROM LONELY PLACES

Text theme:

Warning; solitude; song title ("Stay Away From Lonely Places") written by Willie Nelson and Don Bowman.

Artwork theme:

Anxiety linked to individual condition present in social misfits or the excluded; migration experience

History

History:

March 1-November 1, 2006. The piece mounted onto Chapel & Sunday School in Birmingham's Eastside regeneration district.

Stay Away From Lonely Places, presented in conjunction with the Ron Terada exhibition, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, May 20-June 25, 2005

Event date(s):

2005

Dimensions

Height:

0.83m

Width:

3.22m

Depth:

0.27 m

Other information

Artist's biography:

Terada, Ron

Source:

1. Ron Terada (à travers le Catriona Jeffries Gallery à Vancouver) Charo Neville Associate Curator Catriona Jeffries Gallery 274 East 1st Ave., Vancouver V5T1A6 Tél : 604-736-1554 cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.net

Document(s):

Intertidal : Vancouver Art &Artists

1,986,965 (2001 Census). An Intertidal Travelogue

Literalists of the Imagination

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:42:07 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Schelle, Susan

Artwork creator(s):

Schelle, Susan

Text author(s):

Moore, Marianne

Text author(s):

Moore, Marianne

Installation year:

1988

Artwork description

Source: Toronto Sculpture Garden (2008). Literati. (http://www.torontosculpturegarden.com/SusanSchelle.htm)

Description:

Three cast concrete Italian-style benches serve as a framing device for an image of a 16^th century fountain projected onto a sheet of clear plexiglass.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarks on image:

Overview (text on central bench)

Text of the artwork:

LITERALISTS OF THE IMAGINATION

Text theme:

Irony

Artwork theme:

Irony, misplaced notions of romanticism and sentimentality, personal refuge and serenity.

Text reference:

Ideas of Good and Evil

History

History:

Literati, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto

Event date(s):

1988

Dimensions

Height:

2.43m

Width:

3.65m

Depth:

2.43 m

Other information

Note(s):

This exhibition also presents the artwork Margaret's Table ... remembering Margaret Lawrence, by Mark Gomes.

Artist's biography:

Schelle, Susan

Author's biography:

Moore, Marianne - Marianne Moore

Source:

1. Susan Schelle marsue@istar.ca 2. Toronto Sculpture Garden P.O. Box 65, Station Q Toronto (Ontario) M4T 2L7 Tél : 416-515-9658 Questions générales : info@torontosculpturegarden.com A titre d’information : Louis L. Odette (fondateur) Rina Greer (directrice) William Greer (photographe, préposé général)

Document(s):

Toronto Sculpture Garden. Literati. Susan Schelle/Mark Gomes. July 14-September 30, 1988,

History. Essays. Sculpture In The Garden: Sanctuary Or Exile?

Literati

History. Essays. Advancing The Public Domain

Art in the Park

Toronto Sculpture Garden

Vacancy

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:51:58 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Cesta, Carl (Persona Volare Collective)

Artwork creator(s):

Cesta, Carl

Text author(s):

Cesta, Carl (Persona Volare Collective)

Text author(s):

Cesta, Carl

Installation year:

2007

Artwork description

Source: The Tree Museum (2007). Artist : Persona Volare. (http://www.personavolare.com/cesta_artwork_2007.php)

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

VACANCY

History

History:

What Is Place, The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, ON (opening Sept. 16, 2007. Curator: Anne O'Callaghan).

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Skelton, Carl

Source:

1. Carlo Cesta 16 Geary Ave., Toronto, ON, M6H 2B3 416-537-5244 416-526-8347 ccc@carlocesta.com On peut aussi écrire à l’artiste par l’entremise du site du groupe d’artistes Persona Volare : http://www.personavolare.com/contact_00.php?artist=cesta 2. Anne O’Callaghan Conservatrice, The Tree Museum (Coordonnées personnelles:) 1444 Dupont Street Unite 11A Toronto, Ontario.M6P 4H3 416-551-2166 current@attglobal.net

Document(s):

Relatively Remote. The Tree Museum’s Decade in the Woods

One Long Autumn

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:59:06 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Eschuk, Jonathan; Mellings, Kelly

Artwork creator(s):

Eschuk, Jonathan

Mellings, Kelly

Text author(s):

Eschuk, Jonathan; Mellings, Kelly

Text author(s):

Eschuk, Jonathan

Mellings, Kelly

Installation year:

2002

Artwork description

Source: Edmonton (2008). One Long Autumn. (http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/ets/about_ets/clareview-station.aspx)

Description:

Colored glass with text and images from archives.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Historical text about the train

Dimensions

Other information

Owner(s):

City of Edmonton

Book Tower

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:18:57 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Johnston, Byron

Artwork creator(s):

Johnston, Byron

Text author(s):

Johnston, Byron

Text author(s):

Johnston, Byron

Installation year:

2003

Artwork description

Source: University of Lethbridge (2008). Art Gallery. (http://www.uleth.ca/artgallery/)

Description:

Column made of books

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Artwork theme:

The changing values of books, fate of books over time.

Dimensions

Height:

Other information

Note(s):

Book Tower comments on the changing values of books and what happens to these important objects over time. “As students who buy expensive texts and faculty who dedicate years to writing them, we are all aware that books can go from high financial value to occupying a recycling bin with incredible speed,” says Dr. Josephine Mills, Director/Curator, U of L Art Gallery.

Source: University of Lethbridge (2004). U of L Art Gallery. Alumi magazine, vol. 8, no.1 (spring)

http://www.uleth.ca/alumni/files/alumni_journal/Spring04_AlumniJournal.pdf

Artist's biography:

Byron Johnston

Document(s):

New Sculpture "Tower" Over Campus

La Vie commune

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:09 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Installation year:

1989

Remarks on location:

The drawings were located on two floors of the station, in the corridors between the docks.

Artwork description

Description:

Seven traffic signs with plexiglas covers and black and white drawings. These represented outlined plots of cultivated land that the artist had traced during a trip to Crete. The phrase appeared on each drawing.

Text of the artwork:

Les gens vont et viennent tout le jour entre les parcelles

Text theme:

Life

Artwork theme:

The land

History

History:

Métro d’Art Event date: 1989-1990

Event date(s):

1990

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The Métro d'art event was organized by Galerie La Centrale (at that time, La Galerie Powerhouse), in association with the Société des transports de la ville de Montréal, and included the works of twelve female artists in various metro stations around Montreal: Raymonde Jodoin (Crémazie Station), Michèle Assal and Christina Horeau (Jean-Talon Station), Marie Fraser (Laurier Station), Khadejha McCall and Loly Darcel (Sherbrooke Station), Kitty Scott and Laurel Woodcock (Lucien-L'Allier Station), Cecile Baird and Josée Pellerin (Lionel-Groulx Station), Carole Beaulieu and Renée Lavaillante (Snowdon Station).

Artist's biography:

Renée Lavaillante

Document(s):

L’espace et ses…régisseurs

Métro d’art. Galerie souterraine

À la page de l'iridescent

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:31:26 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lagueux, Jacinthe

Artwork creator(s):

Lagueux, Jacinthe

Text author(s):

Lagueux, Jacinthe

Text author(s):

Lagueux, Jacinthe

Installation year:

1985

Remarks on location:

The artwork is located in an area separated with glass walls from the children's section.

Artwork description

Description:

Sculptural grouping consisting of a suspended element as well as other elements installed on two adjacent walls. The suspended element represents an open book, held by a metal rod at one end of its spine. Its pages are made of translucent plexiglas, tinged with pink. The elements located on the walls consist of rectangular forms held slightly away from the wall by plexiglas rods and installed in such a way as to make them overlap. A crumpled sheet of iridescent, pinkish plastic is glued to their surface.

Artwork theme:

Literature

Dimensions

Height:

3.6m

Width:

1.93m

Depth:

0.91 m

Other information

Note(s):

The artwork is not signed.

The plaque indicates: JACINTHE LAGUEUX / « À LA PAGE DE L'IRIDESCENT » / 1985

Owner(s):

Ville de Québec; Bibliothèque Saint-Albert

Un Jeudi soir à 5 h

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:03:46 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Fafard, Josée

Artwork creator(s):

Fafard, Josée

Text author(s):

Fafard, Josée

Text author(s):

Fafard, Josée

Installation year:

2001

Remarks on location:

The artwork is on the ceiling of the waiting area.

Artwork description

Source: MCCCQ (2003). L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement. Bilan 1999-2002. Québec: MCCQ

Description:

The work consists of nine suspended sculptures, approximately eight hundred small, colourful isosceles triangles and nine sentences or words, all attached to the ceiling. Each sculpture is associated with a theme, a colour and an itinerary represented by triangles of the same colour and a sentence or word.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Ce soir, j’ai rendez-vous avec Gwenaëlle

Qu’est-ce qu’on fait en fin de semaine ?

Surtout attendre jusqu’au dernier moment

Et dire que demain ça recommence

Tu m’as manqué (e) … Katia !

Ici, un jour, il t’est arrivé, toi aussi, d’éprouver cette sensation

Jamais ils ne se séparaient sans avoir convenu / d’un autre endroit où se retrouver

Le reverrai-je demain ?

Text theme:

Daily Life, Routine

Artwork theme:

According to the artist, the green apple evokes "food" and is associated with the sentence "CE SOIR, J’AI RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC GWENAËLLE". The orange leaf represents "the week-end" and is associated with the question "QU’EST-CE QU’ON FAIT EN FIN DE SEMAINE ?. The sentence "SURTOUT ATTENDRE JUSQU’AU DERNIER MOMENT" is written next to a purple gift, which represents "the joy of suspending". The maroon cellular phone is associated with the sentence "ET DIRE QUE DEMAIN ÇA RECOMMENCE" and evokes "work", while the red heart and the the sentence "TU M’AS MANQUÉ (E) …" represent "love". The yellow sun represents "friendship" and is associated with the word "KATIA !" The pictogram for a women's toilet evokes "vital needs" and is associated with the sentence "ICI, UN JOUR, IL T’EST ARRIVÉ, TOI AUSSI, D’ÉPROUVER CETTE SENSATION". The sentence "JAMAIS ILS NE SE SÉPARAIENT SANS AVOIR CONVENU / D’UN AUTRE ENDROIT OÙ SE RETROUVER" is written near the open book, which symbolizes reading . The white cloud sculpture and the QUESTION "LE REVERRAI-JE DEMAIN ?" is associated with "dreaming".

Dimensions

Other information

Owner(s):

Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT)

Architect(s):

Lessard, Louis (architect)

Document(s):

L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement. Bilan 1999-2002

Les Mots de Sophie

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:54:15 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Dutil, Daniel

Artwork creator(s):

Dutil, Daniel

Text author(s):

Dutil, Daniel

Text author(s):

Dutil, Daniel

Installation year:

2003

Remarks on location:

The artwork occupies the alcove's entire wall looking onto the men's locker room. The wall is located in the entrance hall, which can be accessed from the West side of the schoolyard and from the South side corridor in the school.

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Éric Gauthier

Description:

Wall sculpture occupying an entire wall. The wall surface is divided in the center by a vertical aluminium rectangle. On each side of this central shape, the wall's concrete slabs are covered with galvanized steel sheets, glued onto a piece of plywood. Words related to youth issues were hand-punched into the steel surface. The vertical rectangle consists of a central horizontal piece in brushed aluminium framed by two painted aluminium posts, green on the left and red on the right. In the upper part of this central piece, a blue plexiglass component is a symbol of "the watery matter and the fluidity of the spirit," according to the artist. Above the plexiglass component, a reflecting stainless steel sheet is attached to the lateral posts and to the ceiling.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Efforts Honnêteté Politesse Ensemble Persévérance

Text theme:

Youth concerns

Artwork theme:

Self-reflection

Dimensions

Height:

3.55m

Width:

2.44m

Other information

Note(s):

The engraved words were suggested by the students of École Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire and chosen by the artist. They speak of the concerns of young people while evoking the poetic character of the socio-cultural environment that has flourished in Trois-Rivières. The central piece of the artwork refers to the geographical environment (the St.Lawrence River) by borrowing its colours from navigation codes (those represented by the colours red and green used to guide boats) and its formal representation from the construction world (the artwork is inspired by techniques and formal elements used in the construction industry, such as the principle of vertical casing).

Owner(s):

Commission scolaire du Chemin-du-Roy; École Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire

Quai des départs

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:21:17 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Chouinard, Magali

Artwork creator(s):

Chouinard, Magali

Text author(s):

Chouinard, Magali

Text author(s):

Chouinard, Magali

Installation year:

1993

Artwork description

Source: Magali Chouinard page web (2012). Quai des départs.(http://magalichouinard.com/fr/projets/quai-des-d%C3%A9parts-1992-93)

Source: Repentigny library (2008). Library. ( http://www.ville.repentigny.qc.ca/bibliotheque/)

Description:

Work consisting of a statue, six low reliefs, two vertical structures and one chair, along with an installation in the floor surface. The artwork is set on a dais linking two of the library's reading rooms. A papier mâché sculpture representing a man writing in a notebook is set on the highest step. The character is sitting between two vertical structures, the first of which looks like a wooden column with a square section, and the other consisting two superimposed transparent plexiglas plaques linked by wooden moldings. Writing appears on the plaques, white on one side, black on the other. On the ground, a tiled path directs the attention to the back wall, where the six low reliefs are installed in a row. These consist in paper collages mounted on wooden and metal surfaces. A pine chair is placed in front of the third low relief. Each of these represents a type of literature through the use of a character.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Artwork theme:

Ancient literature to modern literature, history of humanity, poetry and music, story and drama, documentary and biography

Dimensions

Width:

19.46m

Depth:

6.38 m

Other information

Artist's biography:

Magali Chouinard

Owner(s):

Ville de Repentigny; Bibliothèque de Repentigny

Source:

Source des informations : Conseil de la culture de Lanaudière