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Sculpture, Metal on Bronze
Size: 95 W x 95 H x 65 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
In all cultures and religions, water has a place of respect and wonder. It flows from clouds to oceans, lakes and rivers in an effortless loop. We meditate beside it, swim through it and watch as it powers the growth of our food. When I was a child growing up in a large Catholic family, we followed an important ritual at the entry to our church. Inside the doorway, sitting on a marble plinth, a large font of water sat quietly waiting for our attention. We believed this to be consecrated Holy Water - a sacred liquid that had the power to transform our souls. We would dip two fingers into the font and then touch our foreheads. I remember feeling at the time a sense of wonder at the purity and elegance of such a simple gesture. Now, in another simple gesture a copper sculpture invites us to reflect not only the sacredness of the water but on the finite nature of its existence on the planet.
Original Created:
2018
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Sculpture:
Metal on Bronze
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
95 W x 95 H x 65 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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Canada.
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Gordon Halloran is Canadian artist who is well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero. His monumental public art installations of non representational paintings in ice have fascinated audiences in Chicago where 176,000 people came out to see his site specific 200' long 14' high Museum of Modern Ice, at Toronto City Hall where 50,000 people came to see Paintings Below Zero an 80' long by 10' wide site specific installation. In Turin Halloran was Canada’s official representative to the Cultural Olympiad for the 2006 Olympics where his site specific installation filled an entire church with Paintings Below Zero; at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games he created ICE GATE a 100' long by 14' high site specific installation. He was recently the feature artist for public art at the Miami International Art Fair and Art Palm Beach. The artist has recently installed Lotus in Motion a site specific series of floating paintings over three lakes for VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, Canada. Mr Halloran has recently returned to his roots with the creation of new paintings, collage and sculpture. Each individual work is intimate in scale and eclectic in theme as the artist follows train of thought that delves into the ephemeral, the energy and the magic of existence. "...dazzling abstract paintings..." - Michelle Tarnopolosky, Macleans's Magazine "....new frontiers of totally experimental contemporary art, where beauty is shown to be less ephemeral than the material it is made of. Beauty that opens our hearts..." - Piero Addis, Chief Curator and Head of the Cultural Olympiad for the Olympic Winter Games, Torino 2006 "...a really unique and unforgettable dialogue between man and nature, technology and emotion." - Giorgetto Giugiaro, Founder and chairman, Italdesign-giugaro SPA "...artwork that promises to be a monumental addition to the Winter Games." Marsha Lederman, Globe Review - The Globe and Mail.
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