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W3876
19.05.2011
CURTAIN CALL: Giant drawing as suspended sculpture - Derek Michael Besant
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  • Client: Windspear Music Centre / City of Edmonton / Canada Date: 1996 Sculpture designed to hang suspended in new Windspear music Hall Tower The idea was to create a drawing in space that was linear, but described volume. The giant detail of fold ...

    Client: Windspear Music Centre / City of Edmonton / Canada Date: 1996

    Sculpture designed to hang suspended in new Windspear music Hall Tower

    The idea was to create a drawing in space that was linear, but described volume. The giant detail of folded cloth mimicking the curtain of the theatre seemed to be something to dwarf viewers and allow visual illusion to take place in people’s minds. Seeing through the negative spaces made the sculpture able to be suspended as a lightweight form.

    Unrealized: Never got approved by building committee. Shelved.

    • (one image from architectural artist’s drawing)

    Artist: Derek Michael Besant RCA Box 44082 Southcentre RPO 356 – 100 Anderson Road SE Calgary Alberta T2J 7C5 besantd@telus.net www.derekbesant.com

    Client: Windspear Music Centre / City of Edmonton / Canada Date: 1996 Sculpture designed to hang suspended in new Windspear music Hall Tower The idea was to create a drawing in space that was linear, but described volume. The giant detail of fold ...

    Client: Windspear Music Centre / City of Edmonton / Canada Date: 1996

    Sculpture designed to hang suspended in new Windspear music Hall Tower

    The idea was to create a drawing in space that was linear, but described volume. The giant detail of folded cloth mimicking the curtain of the theatre seemed to be something to dwarf viewers and allow visual illusion to take place in people’s minds. Seeing through the negative spaces made the sculpture able to be suspended as a lightweight form.

    Unrealized: Never got approved by building committee. Shelved.

    • (one image from architectural artist’s drawing)

    Artist: Derek Michael Besant RCA Box 44082 Southcentre RPO 356 – 100 Anderson Road SE Calgary Alberta T2J 7C5 besantd@telus.net www.derekbesant.com