Research in artworks: Permanent

Le fleuve se creuse un passage vers le ciel

Agnès Riverin, Le fleuve se creuse un passage vers le ciel, 2006Agnès Riverin, Le fleuve se creuse un passage vers le ciel, 2006Agnès Riverin, Le fleuve se creuse un passage vers le ciel, 2006
The artwork is divided into four distinct parts: two pictorial sections, a sculpted section and an engraved and oxidized steel section. In the first two sections, a bright and colorful sky g [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Riverin, Agnès
Installation year: 
2006

Le Jardin secret

Francine Larivée, Le jardin secret, 2000Francine Larivée, Le jardin secret, 2000
Sculptural installation looking like a huge filing cabinet with a cover and 64 drawers that can opened, based on the Yi-King. Divided into two numerically equivalent series and installed over eight ro [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Larivée, Francine
Installation year: 
2000

Le jardin secret de Spica

Rober Racine, Le Jardin secret de Spica, 2001
Fifty deep blue plates are arranged in the courtyard. They all feature the names of stars - some familiar, others less. Spica, for example, is a magnitude 1 star in the Virgo Constellation, according [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Racine, Rober
Installation year: 
2001

Le lieu de la présence

 Dominique Blain, Le lieu de la présence, 2005 Dominique Blain, Le lieu de la présence, 2005. © Nathalie Dion Dominique Blain, Le lieu de la présence, 2005. © Nathalie Dion
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 later [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Blain, Dominique

Le mur de la paix

Cécile Dion, Le mur de la paix, 2007
Inscribed on a wall, the word "Peace" is translated into the 34 languages that represent Montreal's largest communities. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Dion, Cécile
Installation year: 
2007

Le passé, le présent et le futur. La mort, l’espace, la liberté

Jordi Bonet, Le passé, le présent et le futur, 1969-1970. © Photothèque du JournJordi Bonet, Le passé, le présent et le futur, 1969-1970
Monumental mural triptych. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bonet, Jordi
Installation year: 
1969

Le poète dans l’univers

Georges Lauda & Paul Pannier, Poète dans l’univers,1968.Georges Lauda & Paul Pannier, Poète dans l’univers,1968.Georges Lauda & Paul Pannier, Poète dans l’univers,1968.
Three major Quebec poets - Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943) and, of course, Octave Crémazie (1827-1879) for whom the metro station was named - are represented by i [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lauda, Georges; Pannier, Paul
Installation year: 
1968

Le souffle de l’île

Hélène Rochette, Le souffle de lîle, 1997Hélène Rochette, Le souffle de lîle, 1997Hélène Rochette, Le souffle de lîle, 1997
Brushed aluminum sculpture installed at the foot of a cliff. The work is inspired by Félix Leclerc, his beloved Île d'Orléans, its geese, its boats and its River. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Rochette, Hélène
Installation year: 
1997

Le Témoin

Lucienne Cornet, Le Témoin, 2003
The work consists of a concrete column, at the top of which two bronze shapes are attached. A little house placed inside a stainless steel boat sit on the very top of the column. An integrated lamp li [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Cornet, Lucienne
Installation year: 
2003

Le temps du verbe

Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, Le temps du verbe,1997Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, Le temps du verbe,1997
A concrete wall features a series of drawers like those used in archival filing. A square plate seems to jump out of one of the drawers. Numbers 1 to 16 appear on it. A grille is superimposed onto thi [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Jarnuszkiewicz, Jacek
Installation year: 
1997

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

Les beaux rêves

A text for children, translated into Braille, is integrated into a mural. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Goulet, Rose-Marie E.; Guy, Suzanne; Asselin, Francine
Installation year: 
1978

Les mots bleus

Guy Bourassa, Les mots bleus,1995
Two large painted surfaces. Two aluminum shapes: a face outlined in letters and a panel featuring a cutout hand writing a few letters. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bourassa, Guy
Installation year: 
1995

Les Mots de Sophie

Daniel Dutil, Les Mots de Sophie, 2003. © Éric Gauthier
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 wi [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Dutil, Daniel
Installation year: 
2003

Les mots nous regardent. J’avance en poésie comme un cheval de trait.

Pierre Leblanc, Les mots qui nous regardent. J’avance en poésie comme un cheval Pierre Leblanc, Les mots qui nous regardent. J’avance en poésie comme un cheval Pierre Leblanc, Les mots qui nous regardent. J’avance en poésie comme un cheval Pierre Leblanc, Les mots qui nous regardent. J’avance en poésie comme un cheval
Six sculptures sit atop long stems. The sculptures represent a canoe, a horse, an armchair, a leaf, a house and a plane. Fragments from Gaston Miron's L’Homme rapaillé are engraved in stone [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Leblanc, Pierre
Installation year: 
1999