Year-long exposure of Toronto skyline produces 'dreamy' image
(Photo by Michael Chrisman)
Photographer Michael Chrisman, who we interviewed for MAS Context SPEED, has produced a photograph of Toronto’s skyline in 365 days. “The Star” newspaper writes about his new photograph:
“A year ago, Michael Chrisman placed a pinhole camera in Toronto’s Port Lands and aimed it — as best one can aim such a camera — at the city skyline.
For 365 straight days and nights, light has crept through the pinhole, slowly building an exposure on a piece of photosensitive paper.” Explore the whole article in “The Star.”
5 months ago
United Visual Artists in Toronto
Following a two-year development period, United Visual Artists debuts today two permanent artworks in downtown Toronto. One of them is Canopy, a 90-metre long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the building. Inspired by the experience of walking through the dappled light of a forest, Canopy employs mass production and precise fabrication to evoke and reflect nature. Thousands of identical modules, their form abstracted from the geometry of leaves, are organised in a non-repeating growth pattern. During the day, apertures in the modules filter natural light to the street below. After dusk, particles of artificial light are born, navigate through the grid and die, their survival determined by regions of energy sweeping across the structure. The result simultaneously recalls the activity of cells within a leaf, leaves in a forest canopy, or a city seen from the air.
Materials - Powder coated steel, anodised aluminium, injection moulded polycarbonate, LED, Code
Dimensions - 90 metres x 3 metres
Canopy and Connection (the other piece), were commissioned by Cadillac Fairview, Lanterra Developments & Maple Leaf Sports for their new Maple Leaf Square Development.
1 year ago
An Te Liu: Board Games
An Te Liu Title Deed 2009 / photo A. Sulikowska
The“Leona Drive Project” featured 18 artist interventions in a series of late 1940s bungalows waiting to be demolished for a new townhouse development. The most commanding project of the group, Title Deed, was done by Toronto artist An Te Liu, who took one of the rundown houses, cleaned it up and painted it a pristine Monopoly-house green. (Canadian Art)
2 years ago
