ART GALERY for VESNA PERUNOVICH. By Anna Totska.

SITE.

The site is a path that leads to a McCowan subway station in Srarborough. The interesting fact about the site is that is seems completely unoccupied, compare to the surrounding land. Where it is all busy shopping malls, highways, residences. In fact, this piece of "desert" is being used daily by a large number of people, as the path leads to a subway. Therefore, this territory needs some fresh look.

PLAN.

The concept is to create an unusual experience without interrupting people's daily routine. Where the routine is walking to or from the subway. The gallery simply becomes part of the path. While walking to the subway people could look at the exhibition. If they are interested, they are welcome to come in and take a look closely, if not, they would just follow their usual path. 

EXPERIENCE.

The order of the exhibition is designed in a way that viewer is thrown directly into interaction with the art work, knowing nothing about the author.  This, I believe, would clear all expectations and let viewer enjoy work as it is. Later, in the middle section of the art gallery viewer could learn about the author and more specific art works.

PERSPECTIVES.

MODEL.

DRAWINGS.

Project Three, Part Two: Tiffany Huta

Anish Kapoor’s Taratantara at First Canadian Place

Just like many other business buildings, First Canadian Place is a very linier building. This angularity provides a famous contrast for Anish Kapoor’s curvy streamline large sculpture. The contrast between the two elements works the same as a building in the downtown core, the building has to be able to adapt to its cellular human interaction. The sculpture Taratantara, emulates the characteristics of the human body in which the piece also combines this idea of a unity through contrast. The gallery elements are placed strategically to help break up the space and to allow for different viewpoints of Taratantara. Most of the Gallery elements are place in the middle of walking areas to create a distraction. The Elements are place as such to make people be aware of their surroundings. The open gallery concept of First Canadian Place provides ample room for Taratantara and is an ideal place for it to be seen along with the other gallery elements because of the vas amount of people who pass through the building using the PATH daily.


Final Model:





First Model:


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Drawings:

Karen Lee: Final project

statement:

My open air gallery was made for the art work of Brian Jungen: the piece is called Prototype for New Understanding. It is created only by Nike Jordan shoes and Brian Jungen turned this shoes into Indian masks. So to keep the characteristics of the Indians, I try to make the gallery that is suitable and represent-able for Indians. For example, in order to see the art work, people need to go deep into the art gallery. People can see the space from outside or from the overhead walkway however they can not see what’s inside. One reason of this is to evoke people’s curiosity and second reason is in these century Indians are more hiding from us and they are living in the place far from us. This fact also made the gallery to be isolated and placed beside the trees. Moreover, I wanted to give people some relaxation. In the downtown, I found out that people are busy and they are getting stress from working. So I try to make a place where people can relax and get rid of any stress while they are in the gallery. So this is one of the other reasons that I isolated the gallery from the path. Also in the gallery there are seats that they can rest. This gallery would be placed in front of Nathan Philips square.

Monica's Project Three Post

“Growing Rock Candy Mountain, Grasses in Canned Sand”( by Jessica Stockholder) exhibited at the Nathan Phillips Square rink

My purpose in choosing the Nathan Phillips Square rink/fountain as my location to exhibit “Growing Rock Candy Mountain, Grasses in Canned Sand” was to capture the interest of the general public. Many art works that are exhibited in museums and in galleries mainly attract people with an artistic background or interest. My goal was to create a more casual and easily accessible way for people, with or without knowledge of the arts, to participate in the viewing of an art piece. The large fuchsia, mountain like shapes create an image that easily catches people’s attention. By strategically placing the work on the ice rink, as not to block the circular flow of the skaters, the work is placed in a fun environment and enables the general public to come enjoy the art piece while they skate. In the warmer months, when the rink is filled with water, there will be “stepping-stone” like blocks placed for the viewers to be able to approach the work at a closer distance. Finally, in the east and west end of the area, there will be white walls placed to create a backdrop, suitable for an artist whose works are described to be like “paintings in space”. Furthermore, this will diminish the level of distraction behind the work, as well as facilitate the viewing of such large piece.

Monica Laflamme