Art - Page 25

Rusty van Reddick · #**481** Posted **Dec 4, 2013, 11:37 PM**

I actually like the horses.

RyLucky · #**482** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 2:37 AM**

Cliche, but because there are 2 horses the narrative is as much about companionship or love or cooperation as it is about Calgary's pseudo-history. They remind me of Rocinante and Sancho's donkey (THAT's where it went!).

Chadillaccc · #**483** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 3:04 AM**

I still find them weak, but I agree the fact that there's two of them makes it somehow nicer.

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http://instagram.com/p/hbii1YiBN1/#

Ramsayfarian · #**484** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 5:54 PM**

In other Art news, the Device to Root Out Evil should be gone by the end of the year. I for one, will be sad to see it go.

Bigtime · #**485** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

In other Art news, the Device to Root Out Evil should be gone by the end of the year. I for one, will be sad to see it go.

Noooooooo!

I will have to go and take some final photos.

Jimby · #**486** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 5:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

In other Art news, the Device to Root Out Evil should be gone by the end of the year. I for one, will be sad to see it go.

Where is it going?

Chadillaccc · #**487** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 8:59 PM**

New art installation "Solar Flare" on Stephen Avenue!

Solar Flare Installation, Stephen Avenue Walk

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There’s a Native American legend about a white raven who stole the imprisoned sun from a greedy, light-hoarding old man, and, with the fiery ball in its beak, escaped through a smoke-hole in the roof of the old man’s house. The heist caused the raven to turn black and the resulting solar power to illuminate the once-dark and eternally chilly Planet Earth. Realistically, we know that the life-giving star is far too large, hot and far away ever to be shackled by even a clever corvid, but it’s a lovely tale.

So when local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett were commissioned by Downtown Calgary, the organization overseeing the core’s business revitalization zone, to create a large, original light piece for Stephen Avenue, they also set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible.

“I was at a music festival this past summer and was thinking about what downtown Calgary is missing in winter,” says Brown. “When it’s cold and dark in the middle of the winter, what we’re really missing is the sun.”

And so Solar Flare was born. The third project in the rockstar duo’s repertoire of large-scale light sculptures (one is “Incandescent Cloud,” the interactive cloud-shaped installation comprised of 6,000 lightbulbs that took the inaugural Nuit Blanche Calgary event by storm in 2012) is an attempt to reinvigorate stark, chilly Stephen Avenue in mid-winter, much like the fabled raven did way back at the mythical dawn of time.

Story: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/...n+Stephen+Avenue+Walk/9247807/story.html

Detailed photos/drawings of the piece: http://solarsunflare.wordpress.com/about/

A large rendering of the piece:

Bigtime · #**488** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:10 PM**

Woah, this thing could be pretty cool looking. I loved their cloud on last year.

Spring2008 · #**489** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:12 PM**

Ya, this thing could be really awesome in person. Looks like the LED's on the Stephen Avenue trees are up and running too.

Noticed they have a bunch of different neon colored lighted balls hung up along the trees in front of city hall. So funky looking.

Chadillaccc · #**490** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:35 PM**

I'll leave the office a little early tonight and try to snap a few pics. Hopefully my hands don't fall off in the cold.

Bigtime · #**491** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I'll leave the office a little early tonight and try to snap a few pics. Hopefully my hands don't fall off in the cold.

If you are referring to Solar Flare it is not installed yet, their website says it is delayed due to the cold and they hope to have it up Sunday or Monday.

Spring2008 · #**492** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:50 PM**

Here's a link to those ball lights. Noticing more neon lighting going on downtown lately.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]

Ramsayfarian · #**493** Posted **Dec 6, 2013, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jimby

Where is it going?

It sounded like it might be going into storage for the time being. The lease on it is up and the group that owns it wants it back.

Aegis · #**494** Posted **Dec 7, 2013, 7:15 PM**

Did anyone else watch this? Really interesting episode Urban Redesign, all about so called "urban interventions", whereby street-artists make semi-permanent or non-permanent urban art installations. I wonder if we have any of this movement in Calgary?

http://www.291filmcompany.ca/programs.php?program_id=2&ep_id=s1_e1