UPDATES ON THE BANNER PROJECT
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Atelier Graff - Rue Rachel, Montreal, QC
After long preparation of the images, technical drawings, structural planning, meetings with the city council, meetings with community council, meetings with technicians and engineers, fire men and professional sign makers.....
.....we finally have our banner project successfully mounted on Rue RACHEL!
This project is made in collaboration with artist Arthur Desmarteaux. All images are made collaboratively. We used digital photos, mixed with microscopic photo-imagery and hand-drawn textures to create an illusion of holes and extra windows in the facade of the building. The imagery inside the hole includes human anatomy (eyes, arms, and legs) and psychedelic molecular landscapes.
It is our first public art piece, and also our first time printing large scale digital prints. The final pieces are 40 x 70 inches.
It was a rewarding experience to jump through all the bureaucratic hoops involved in displaying art in the public domain. We certainly learned a lot in the process. But none of this would have been possible without the generous support from the great people at GRAFF STUDIOS.
Thank you especially to Christiane Desjardins (director at Graff) and Laurent Lemarche who helped with many of the technical details.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 15, 2008
5pm
963 Rue Rachel est
Montreal, QC
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