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The fountain was made in 1967 by Cambridge Seven Associates.
+This is the fifth in an occasional series of videos on the fountains of Montreal+
Category Archives: Public Art
The Fountain on top of Complexe Guy Favreau
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The fountain was made in between 1982 and 1984 by Pasquin St-Jean & Associates, now a part of Groupe Roche.
+This is the fourth in an occasional series of videos on the fountains of Montreal+
The Fountain in between Complexe Guy Favreau and the Palais des congrès de Montréal
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The fountain was made in between 1982 and 1984 by Pasquin St-Jean & Associates, now a part of Groupe Roche.
+This is the third in an occasional series of videos on the fountains of Montreal+
Stuff seen around town
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Submitted without comment, for the most part.
The Fountains at Square Victoria
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Going from south to north.
Saint Jacques, looking north.
South side of Saint Antoine, looking south.
North side of Saint Antoine, looking north.
In between Saint Antoine and Viger, looking north.
Viger, looking south.
The fancy programming of the water…
The fountain was made by Soucy Aquatik in 2002, more information on Square Victoria can be found here and here.
+This is the second in an occasional series of videos on the fountains of Montreal+
The Fountain at Square Saint Louis
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The fountain was made by J.L. Mott Ironworks in 1849. More information about Square Saint Louis (also known as carré Saint-Louis) is here, here and here.
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Bad Public Art: Horloge solaire by André Mongeau
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I’ve always been fascinated by Horloge solaire by André Mongeau. According to the Palais des congrès’ website “a laser beam makes the color of the fibers change according to the sun’s intensity.” That would have been so cool, if it ever worked…
Plucking from L’Action (a weekly newspaper published in Joliette), he’s an artist
Ses œuvres cherchent à traduire l’essentiel. Peintre-architecte de l’espace cosmique, il crée par une myriade de points, colorés et lumineux comme autant d’étoiles dans l’univers, une constellation de signes qui invitent à partager une magie sombre et étincelante, silencieuse et féerique.*
Or if you prefer in The King’s English; His works seek to capture the essence. Painter and architect of cosmic space, it creates a myriad of points, colorful and bright like stars in the universe, a constellation of signs that invite you to share a dark magic and sparkling, quiet and magical. [machine translated by Google, it does a wonderful job on artists’ statements]
As far as I know it was built as part of the first phase of the Palais des congrès way back in the 1980s. Given that at the time the city was going bonkers for Melvin Charney‘s work, and the supports are rather genericly thin struts of steel, I for the longest time, thought that Mr. Charney had in fact made it. But I was very wrong. And doing a little more Googling on M. Mongeau, it appears that he lives in the wonderfully named town of Sainte-Émélie-de-l’Énergie.
And as far as I can tell, the current overlords of the Palais des congrès don’t even like it anymore, as this picture taken on axis from the Palais des congrès looking towards Complexe Guy Favreau shows, they have strategically placed trees in the way, so you can’t see it.
I vaguely remember seeing it working once, a long, long time ago.
Art on (and around) Greene Avenue
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It occurred to me recently there is a phenomenal amount of art that is accessible to the public (as opposed to public art) on and around Greene Avenue in Westmount.
The Montreal Gazette from July 4, 1985. And the exact article he is reading.
I’m not quite certain what ghosts and clouds have to do with things that are erotic, but there was a fuss over the display of cartoon genitalia, and the ghosts and clouds were added to give a sense of modesty.
I’m surprised that no one complained about the bondage…
Sorry about the glare, but I wasn’t brave enough to enter into Westmount Square in order to take pictures. There’s another one in one of the other towers, but my pictures were horrible. If you’d like a better picture, try this.
Wars, and war memorials were much different then. There are 192 names on it from World War I, which lasted four years. And 260 names from World War II, which lasted six years. The Canadian Army has been fighting in Afghanistan for almost ten years, and I can guarantee you that there will not be any additional names added.
The less said about this, the better. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I took so many pictures.
Details and a complete explanation of what this is exactly are here. If you’re too lazy to click, it’s from 1684, 327 years ago.
If anyone knows any details, or has any information about the photographer, title or why, I would be extremely appreciative.
Georges Marciano loans art that he doesn’t own to the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal?
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On Friday all the art from the L’Hotel got taken, because Georges Marciano, the owner of L’Hotel in Montreal, wasn’t able to pay his bills.
There were a couple of pieces of art that he owned that he had loaned to the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, I wonder how long they are going to stick around?
And do you think that the bailiffs were stymied by all the construction?
And what with all the talk about corruption in Montreal happening these days, I wonder if anyone at city hall or the museum cared that there was a lien on M. Marciano’s property when he proposed lending his property (because before he loaned the statues to the museum, he loaned them to the city first…) My take on the situation back in April 2010 here. Macleans take here.
The Rose Garden at Hélène de Champlain
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As I said yesterday, I was on Île Sainte-Hélène earlier this week, and the haut-gamme, fancy-ass, upscale and real expensive restaurant Hélène de Champlain closed and they are doing some sort of renovations on it. But what I didn’t know and fascinated me was the rose garden in front of it. Next year I’m going to have to go back earlier in the season. because it was kind of slim pickings in mid-September.
