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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 13:09): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/a-portrait-of-my-grandfather

A Portrait of My Grandfather

A Portrait of My Grandfather [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Micah Lexier [2]
image/jpeg iconource: Photo provided by Micah Lexier [3]
Location:
Scurfield Hall, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Lexier, Micah
Text author(s): 
Lexier, Micah
Installation year: 
1994
Description: 

The massive sculpture, which hangs from the atrium ceiling of the University of Calgary's Scurfield Hall, is made from 29,064 laser-cut letters "x" in stainless steel. The total number of metallic "x"s represents the number of days that the artist's 79-year-old grandfather was alive.

Text of the artwork: 

X

Text theme: 
Life
Artwork theme: 

Life, death

Dimensions:

Height: 
6.7m
Diameter: 
5.2m
Artist's biography: 
Micah Lexier [4]
Owner(s): 
University of Calgary
Document(s): 
The story behind Scurfield Hall’s hanging sculpture
NSCAD_University (2008).  The story behind Scurfield Hall’s hanging sculpture. <http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/uofcpublications/oncampus/online/august16-07/awards> August 2007 : NSCAD University
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/a-portrait-of-my-grandfather
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/A Portrait of My Grandfather1.jpg
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/A Portrait of My Grandfather.jpg
[4] http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&amp;link_id=219&amp;artist=Micah+Lexier
[5] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[6] http://plepuc.org/en/print/942
[7] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/a-portrait-of-my-grandfather