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But Is It ART?
Montreal, QC - EvilGentleman - Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 : goo
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The first week of June, I saw this display outside of the Canadian Centre For Architecture on Rene Levesque Boulevard. I have no idea what it is supposed to signify, but it sure caught my attention. Weird.
Anybody have any ideas what all this stuff is supposed to mean?
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joey: 20th Jun 2006 - 23:56 GMT
the innocuous resin chair made into high art.
or - right from their web page - Sense of the City is a major exhibition dedicated to the theme of urban phenomena and perceptions which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life—thus advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement.
EvilGentleman: 21st Jun 2006 - 00:27 GMT
Or in plain English, they have no current ideas for new architectual styles, so they will play with patio furniture to distract us.
Grange: 21st Jun 2006 - 11:06 GMT
5 bucks for you evil if you can get a pic of someone sitting on one of the chairs...lol
Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 21st Jun 2006 - 14:03 GMT
$10 (American) if you can get a pic of the chairs spinning on top of the sticks.
Grange: 21st Jun 2006 - 20:44 GMT
Midnight raid to put garden gnomes on each chair ...Pays $15 in Canadian Tire money
EvilGentleman: 21st Jun 2006 - 21:41 GMT
The display was only up for a week or so, they are all in someone's garden shed now, for sure.
elaine: 22nd Jun 2006 - 12:13 GMT
i like the way you have specified 'american' dollars, cat. my new thing is trying to bring back guineas.
Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 22nd Jun 2006 - 13:19 GMT
I'll give you ten Guineas if you can bring back Sovreigns (sp?) too. Then I can wear waistcoats to hook my thumbs in and spout Dickens all day. Sweeeet!
elaine: 22nd Jun 2006 - 15:58 GMT
do you have any clue how much a sovreign might be? i am guessing it will be more than a pound, but it's only a guess. it is a coin, but it seems to me that any coin that can be made of gold has to be worth a bit. mind you, a pound must have been a pound weight at some point, of something. probably not gold, though. a pound of gold would be big. even in ye olde days i can't see it being equal.
i'll give you ten bob if you tell me. half a dollar!
SingleGuy: 22nd Jun 2006 - 16:03 GMT
I'll give you 10 Quebec Francs to...oh wait those don't exist..yet! :)
EvilGentleman: 16th Jul 2006 - 01:31 GMT
Actually, the park they have across the street also has a chair theme that has been there for years, with the two sculptures closest to the on and off ramps for the ville marie expressway having steel-tubing extensions on them that put metal chairs out towards the viewer, high above the sculptures. Still don't get the connection between architecture and chairs, but I suspect one of the influential personalities at the Centre has a chair-as-art fetish.
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