The new figure includes a $300,000 bump from the province’s Celebrate Ontario fund to facilitate Arizona artist D. A. Therrien’s Beautiful Light: Four Letter Word Machine. It will shine four-letter words from giant light sculptures suspended at City Hall. “Yes, I was nervous at reading that,” joked Toronto Mayor David Miller yesterday. (It’s not what it sounds like–no swears.)
Spanish-Mexican artist Sierra plans a surprise installation that could prove genuinely controversial. Sierra’s work often confronts socioeconomic inequality; he’s known for offering prostitutes and poor workers token amounts of money in exchange for tattooing straight black lines down their backs. In 2004, Sierra temporarily “buried” 10 stateless Iraqis alive, spraying them with polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden. European newspapers gasped two years later when he filled a German synagogue with car exhaust, transforming it into a gas chamber to protest society’s desensitization to the Holocaust.
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June 19, 2009 · No Comments
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