Mirage – TOM III
Summer 2014
This summer, once again, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
(MMFA) is presenting an outside installation by the Quebec artist and landscape architect Claude
Cormier. The installation is a part of the museum’s outdoor sculpture garden.
It actually connects and unifies the two sections of the Sculpture Garden that run
along the side walks on both sides of the Du Musée Avenue , and
which are otherwise separated by the street traffic and cars.
Located at the heart of the
Quartier du Musée, the Sculpture Garden has been turned into a pedestrian mall for the
third summer in a row. After his previous works at MMFA Carpet of Daisies – TOM I (in 2012) and Field
of Poppies – TOM II (in 2013), this Cormier's third instalment in the TOM series, Mirage,
has been designed to give visitors and passers-bys an original visual
experience.
The installation not only presents a striking visual design of geometrical forms, it also consists of totally different colour schemes in either an upward or downward street direction. In the photos above, looking up the street, the colours are blue, black, yellow and white. But in the downward direction, in the photos below, the colours are dark and light red, as well as white and yellow. One can notice that two colours are present in both colour schemes - white and yellow, which seem to unite them into one whole.
The changing pallet of colours and designs provide a striking visual effect as well as varying points of view and perspectives as one walks up or down the museum's Sculpture Garden.
This year, for
the third edition of TOM, a record number of 10,000 overlay temporary markers
were used, three times the number of those used in the very first Claude Cormie’s TOM installation in 2012.
See the photos and read the articles on previous and subsequent TOM installations by Calude Cormire at MMFA:
Click on images to enlarge them.
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