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Allegorical columns of the CCA Garden
1988
Melvin Charney
1935 - 2012

With degrees in architecture from McGill and Yale, Melvin Charney (Montréal, 1935–2012) rethought interactions among image, memory, and urban sites. His artworks, moving between architecture and the visual arts, are included in numerous national and international collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Centre Georges-Pompidou, and the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris, and have been featured in a number of retrospectives (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1982; Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1991; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1979 and 2002). The permanent installations Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Ottawa and the Canadian Centre for Architecture Garden in 1990 are among his most important public art projects.

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Category
Sculpture
Acquisition mode
Politique d'intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement, Government of Quebec
Materials
copper sheets, reinforced concrete, stainless steel, wood
Technique(s)
cast, polished
Location
Location
Location
CCA sculpture garden / Ernest-Cormier Esplanade
Adress
René-Lévesque Boulevard West between du Fort Street and Saint-Marc Street

Artwork description

Lying at the edge of an escarpment, the sculpture garden was designed by Montreal artist-architect Melvin Charney as part of the Québec government’s competition program for the integration of art and architecture, combining sculpture and public space on a site granted to the CCA by the City of Montréal in 1986. At once a garden in the city and a museum in the open air, it evokes the history of landscape design and comments on Montreal’s early industrial sector below the hill, initiating a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric.