A few photos I took of the mounting of Philip Beesley’s art installation Sargasso, exhibited at Brookfield Place until Saturday. Go check it out, support local art. Seriously!
The installation is a large scale ‘mass’ of intricate pieces: ‘weightless’ feather elements, inflating bellows, long, sharp blades, beautiful clear plastic spider connectors, as well as reacting computerized parts. Suspended inside Santiago Calatrava’s stunning building, the work of Beesley (an internationally-acclaimed fine artist and professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architeture) creates an unexpected disjunction of the public space, thus raising forcing us to question how we act/react/interact with(in) our city environment(s).
From Luminato’s website:
A worldwide pioneer in the fast-growing field of responsive architecture, Beesley and his team of collaborators pose the question “could architecture come alive?” In reply he creates spaces that dissolve into forest-like hovering fields, kin to primitive life-forms within dense jungles and ocean reefs. These responsive environments offer bodily immersion and wide-flung perception. In this new installation, Beesley combines visionary design with high-tech digital engineering to turn an everyday public space into a world of wonder.
Sargasso refers to the vast, tangled floating masses of living matter and cast-off material that drifts at the centre of the Atlantic. The environment within the sweeping atrium of the Allen Lambert Galleria makes a vast canopy, a sanctuary that slowly shifts and floats above the city. The building is no longer an entity of steel, glass, and stone but a participant in a symbiotic artistic event that shapes the nature of the environment itself.
Hope you enjoy the images!
