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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 18:42): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/le-bruit-du-monde

Le bruit du monde

Le bruit du monde [1]

image/jpeg iconMCCCQ (2003). L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement. Bilan 1999-2002. Québec: MCCCQ [2]
Location:
École secondaire Des Rives, 400 Montée Dumais, Lachenaie, QC, J6W 5W9, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Boyer, Gilbert
Text author(s): 
Rabelais, François
Installation year: 
2002
Description: 

The artwork consists of a long glass wall installed under a light shaft. Messages, sentences, words, handwritten or typographical signs as well as declarations collected from the institution's students and teachers appear on the wall. Using sandblasting techniques, all writings were rewritten into disorganized fragments, colourful graffitis or undecipherable codes.

Artwork theme: 
Catalyses everyday thought, translates it into different levels of reading, inviting everyone to take back the act of reading and own it.
Note(s): 

For this artwork, the artist wanted to pay tribute to Rabelais. The "bruit" ("noise") evoked in the title refer to the "frozen words" mentioned in a Rabelais text.

Artist's biography: 
Gilbert Boyer [3]
Owner(s): 
Commission scolaire des Affluents; École secondaire Des Rives
Architect(s): 
Birtz, Bastien
Document(s): 
L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement. Bilan 1999-2002
MCCCQ (2003).  L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement. Bilan 1999-2002. Québec : Gouvernement du Québec
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/le-bruit-du-monde
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/Bruit du monde_0.jpg
[3] http://gilbertboyer.com/
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/248
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/le-bruit-du-monde