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A Departure Sculpture

Ilan Sandler

Canada

Sculpture, Metal on Steel

Size: 500 W x 1000 H x 50 D in

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A Departure is based on three types of driver train wheels that have crossed the Alberta CPR High Level Bridge over the past hundred years. The largest sculptural element in the installation is a train wheel emerging from the ground, acting here as a bridge connecting the first era of steam locomotion, in its golden age when the bridge was built, with the current era of diesel electric trains. The largest wheel is based on the last class of Mikado steam engines, which the CPR kept in service until the early 1950s. The two smaller wheels are drawn from the beginning and end of the centenary period, the earliest based on Switcher trains built at the turn of the century. The sculptural components have been installed in relation to one another, designed so that they work together as a set of objects that frame views of the bridge, the river valley, the Galt museum, the seniors’ home, and the University of Lethbridge. When facing the bridge, you can peer through the spokes of the large wheel to see its older counterpart, as if looking back in time. When standing between the bridge and the two steam engine wheels, you can see a late twentieth century wheel appearing to roll into the future. While the bridge has remained constant in form and structure, its rails are a timeline marking milestones in rail technology, most notably the radical shifts in the second quarter of the twentieth century when innovations in diesel technology spell the gradual obsolescence of the steam engine. By installing the three wheels on different inclined angles, they enter into a visual interplay depicting dramatic changes in train wheel design since the bridge’s completion. With their enlarged scale and monumentalized form, the wheels themselves become lenses, bringing into focus the pivotal periods of political, cultural and technological change that have occurred over the last hundred years. Although based on careful research, the sculptures are not exact historical replicas of wheels from specific models; instead, each is a composite, bringing together subtle design elements from its respective time period. —Ilan Sandler 2009

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Sculpture:Metal on Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:500 W x 1000 H x 50 D in

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Ilan Sandler has shown his sculptures, installations, and videos internationally and across Canada and has completed public art commissions in a number of cities in North America, as well as in Denmark and in Busan, South Korea. In 2000 he began experimenting with approaches and techniques to creating public art by combining industrial processes with emerging new media and rapid prototyping technology, and those experiments led him to found Sandler Studio as a research/production space for public projects. His major projects until 2005 included long- term temporary installations in unconventional sites: Arrest at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia; Pulse for the city of St. Louis; and Double Storey at the Toronto Sculpture Garden, as well as other mobile sensory and temporary projects in New York City, Philadelphia, and Connecticut. By 2006 his studio could support the production of large-scale pieces for national and international public art competitions. Although some of these public pieces have a textual or media component, in general his work references contemporary objects that are in common use and resonate across cultures, including books, wheels, sheaves of paper, tables, chairs, and water vessels. Recent permanent public artworks include A Departure in Lethbridge (2009), What’s Your Name? (2011) and The Vessel (2011) in Toronto. Current permanent public art commissions include Under the Helmet (2014) in Calgary and both Lace Up (2013) and The School Chair (2013) in Halifax. In 2012 his new series of Urban Artworks called Stolen Parts was premiered in Stockholm. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Culture. Born in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1971, Ilan Sandler and his family immigrated to Toronto six years later, in 1977. Sandler studied at the University of Toronto, where he received a B.Sc. in Physics, and at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he completed an Honours Fine Arts certificate. In 2000 he was awarded an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He then went on to teach at the University of the Arts and Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, and most recently at NSCAD University where he held a SSHRC Research/Creation Fellowship until 2011. He is currently running Sandler Studio Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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