Œuvre d'art public

Clouds on buses

Ian Cauthery, Clouds on buses, 1995. © Paul MacDonald
Location:
Guelph, ON, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Cauthery, Ian
Text author(s): 
Cauthery, Ian; Shakespeare, William
Installation year: 
1995
Remarks on location: 

Interior advertising spaces on 9 local buses

Description: 

On city buses, in lieu of advertising for commercial products, are Ian Cauthery's drawings of clouds and various bits of poetic text.

Text of the artwork: 

Ride the curled clouds Fluctuating, drifting, listless and then the elements be free

Text theme: 
Ariel in Shakespeare, William, La Tempête, Paris : Mercure de France, 1963, 127 p.
Artwork theme: 

Cauthery aims to take the bus rider away from the pedestrian and into the realm of the imaginary.

History: 
Exhibition: Niche, Guelph, ON
Event date(s): 
1995
Document(s): 

Niche : installations publiques, interventions et performances/Public Installations, Interventions and Performances

Gray, Kate (1995).  Niche : installations publiques, interventions et performances/Public Installations, Interventions and Performances. Espace. no. 33 (Automne - Fall) , p. 21-25

Niche: installations, interventions, performances. April 22-May 20, 1995

Massier, John, Gordon Hatt (1995).  Niche: installations, interventions, performances. April 22-May 20, 1995. Guelph : The Install Art Collective