Research in artworks: Building material

Un Jeudi soir à 5 h

Josée Fafard, Un jeudi soir à 15h, 2001Josée Fafard, Un jeudi soir à 15h, 2001
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 [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Fafard, Josée
Installation year: 
2001

Uncoverings

Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André BrouilletteJill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Four round glass and steel covers are inset into the sidewalk over the ventilation shafts of an underground heating system. They are lit from underneath at night and steam may be seen to escape a [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Anholt, Jill; Ockwell, Susan
Installation year: 
1998

Unknown

Ten installations are disseminated throughout the area of Pointe-Saint-Charles. Six are located near Atwater Market on both sides of the avenue. The others are located in nearby parks. Text is engrave [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Creator Unknown

Untitled

Triptych consisting of three paintings, including one collage painting. On a wall of the library, the first painting incorporates 38 Reader's Digest books placed in a row on the right, while 4 silhoue [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Royer, Claude
Installation year: 
1991

Untitled

André Lapointe, Untitled, 2006
In situ artwork, in the brush of the railway embankment. The artist cut branches of the weeds in order to reveal a form. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lapointe, André
Installation year: 
2006

Untitled

Maurice Savoie,Untitled, 1982Maurice Savoie,Untitled, 1982
Mural and element on the wall entitled Hommage au poète. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Savoie, Maurice
Installation year: 
1982

Untitled

Effets publics, Untitled, 1992Effets publics, Untitled, 1992Effets publics, Untitled, 1992
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 diffe [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Effets publics : Goulet, Rose-Marie E.; Paiement, Alain; Randy, Saharuni; Denis, Bernard; Bellavance, Guy
Installation year: 
1992

Untitled

Marcel Deschênes, Untitled, 1992
Mural embedded into the bump out of a wall and made of stacks of laminated polychromatic wood. According to the artist, the outer edges of the piece, which are painted blue and placed in a such a way [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Deschênes, Marcel
Installation year: 
1992

Untitled

Ceramic mosaic sheathing depicting an Inuk wearing a yoke with two buckets. It contains letters and syllabic signs. Nearby, a man and a woman collect these letters and signs. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Qaurittayuk, Peter
Installation year: 
1993

Untitled

The work consists of six panels that are used as doors. Each contains seven partially superimposed vertical boards. Their black surfaces feature carved text (a total of 2,200 letters) reproducing a le [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Vaillancourt, Armand
Installation year: 
1984

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

Untitled

Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976. © Marc André BrouilletteColette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976. © Marc André Brouillette
Silhouettes of human figures in wood or concrete. Engraved thoughts appear on the silhouettes and photographs, on the walls. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Whiten, Colette
Installation year: 
1976

Untitled (Totem)

Myung Ji Kim, Untitled (Totem)
Totem with Korean writing. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Ji Kim, Myung

Urbaine urbanité

Gilles Bissonnet, Urbaine urbanité, 2002
The artist painted the exterior building walls in white and installed strips of text on the façade. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bissonnet, Gilles
Installation year: 
2002

Urban Forest

Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007
A cantilevered seating element, composed of multiple layers of laminated wood varieties, floats above a grid of embedded LED lighting and related arboreal text elements. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Anholt, Jill
Installation year: 
2007