Art on campus
Concordia boasts one of the most diverse collections of public art of any university in Canada and has grown to become a major Montreal cultural engine
October 9, 2012
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Source: Concordia University Magazine
Lierre sur Pierre (2009), by Geneviève Cadieux
No fewer than 26 artists’ works grace Concordia’s campus walls, corridors and other public spaces. Most are elegantly displayed as permanent installations and part of the very fabric of the university. Below are three examples of Concordia’s public works of art:
- Rose-Marie Goulet’s installation Various (1992) was commissioned for the opening of the J.W. McConnell Library Building in 1992. The artwork is spread over four locations. A spiral motif energizes and unifies the pieces and the work highlights linguistic references through fragments of text, letters and signs set in the very materials of the building.
- Walter Führer’s Transcendence was one of 20 artworks commissioned by the House of Seagram for Montreal’s Expo 67 and was donated to Loyola College in 1968. The 4,500-kg stainless steel structure represents human and space travel and has left an indelible mark onthe Loyola Campus landscape.
- Geneviève Cadieux’s Lierre sur Pierre (2009), a 165-square-metre metal vine on the John Molson School of Business Building, is arguably one of Concordia’s most striking works. Cadieux created the anodized metal on a limestone wall as a take on the elitist tradition of ivy-covered academe.
Related links:
• "Double milestone for Concordia gallery" – NOW, October 9, 2012