URBAN INTERVENTION: DESIGNER’S STATEMENT
My proposal for the location of Giuseppe Penone’s open-air gallery is outside of McCowan subway station in the North Scarborough suburbs of Toronto.
I believe part of what the suburbs may be missing is a deep connection to art and culture, particularly in the form of spatial representation. As well, a natural variety is not apparent in these areas and nature is not given the space or the freedom to be creative itself, by evolving or expanding.
By placing an open-air gallery on the expanse of grassland nestled between Scarborough Shopping Center and a quieter, more corporate pocket, I am proposing that Penone’s work can bridge all disconnects from nature, urban culture, and the environment to the occupants of the area.
It can also serve as a monument to the future the Scarborough suburbs; a more soulful and more livable community, with less emphasis on the corporate elements and more on the ribbon on nature that cuts through the area.
The proposed location for the gallery is one which is visible and accessible to a heavy traffic of people coming to and from the buildings and shops in and around the McCowan RT station, so it will be a perfect showcase for the selected piece of art.
Penone’s work consists of pieces of worked natural materials expressing poetic principles and values inspired by wooded areas and natural bounties, such as the ones the artist became accustomed to growing up in a small village in the Maritime Alps.
The gallery is designed like a gateway and so observers will be given the simulation that they are being transported from their surroundings. The portals in the walls have been offset so that only a beam of light passes through to the entrance, alluding to what lies at the end of passage—a spiritual transformation.
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