Research in artworks: Random

Turning

Eldon Garnet,Turning, 2004Eldon Garnet,Turning, 2004
TURNING is a tower which appears to be slightly out of balance, slightly askew, leaning. Text flows around three poles, gracefully spiraling upward as the tower ascends from the ground in three dire [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Garnet, Eldon
Installation year: 
2004

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

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

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

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

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

Lucienne Cornet, Sans Titre, 1983. © Renée Larochelle
The sculpture consists of two panels mounted onto two brick walls. The first panel is a long horizontal rectangle and presents different types of representations subject to the morphology of the first [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Cornet, Lucienne
Installation year: 
1983

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

Jenny Holzer, Untitled, 2007Jenny Holzer, Untitled, 2007. © Roger Kao
Video projections of words on a building [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Holzer, Jenny
Installation year: 
2008

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

Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972
Mural and door on a church [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bonet, Jordi
Installation year: 
1972

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

Van

Phil Morrison, Van, 2002Phil Morrison, Van, 2002
Car pierced with letters. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Morrison, Phil
Installation year: 
2002

Vers tissés serré

L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-ClL'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. ©L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-Cl
Created by assembling hundreds of glass jars, the installation Vers tissés serré sends visitors on a poetic journey through Montreal, with help from words by Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Braul [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team
Installation year: 
2010