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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Sandler's water works

Sculptor Ilan Sandler's newest piece, "The Vessel," a 5.7-metre-tall, stainless-steel water pitcher in Burnside, will quench your Summer thirst for art.

Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:34 PM

If you happen to drive by Burnside in the next couple of days, stop at Velocity Machining and Welding (19 Pettipas) to see sculptor Ilan Sandler's newest piece, "The Vessel," a 5.7-metre-tall, stainless-steel water pitcher. Sandler and Velocity are old co-conspirators; you may remember Sandler's giant steel book with the float-away pages, which is now installed along Toronto's busy 401 Highway, near the airport. "The Vessel," commissioned by Toronto's Department of Parks for Taddle Creek Park, will be a clean reprieve in the city of trash after it's installed (date pending because of the strike). Created from four kilometres of stainless-steel rod, the length references the "approximate distance that Taddle Creek ran from Taddle Creek Park through downtown to Lake Ontario. I have reconstituted a memory of the buried creek by referencing its length and bending the steel rod into water-carrying arteries that form a vessel," writes Sandler, who won a national competition for the commission in March 2007. Light will slice through the rods, and water, stored to irrigate the park, will "flow from the top of the rim of the vessel over its surface and then cascade onto the ground plane, creating sound that drowns out the noise of traffic."

Tags: Public Art, Art, Sculpture, Ilan Sandler

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Sue: An art critic as well as what?
Whatever............I do critique art, I critique architecture, I critique the design of consumer goods, I critique everything actually, as well as create art.
Altho you say I can't............I can, and will, present my opinion on art if motivated to do so, as I was when I saw the 'jug'. I was not critiquing all of the artist's creations, just the water jug. And I find it.....as I said,......boring. You stated your opinion........"far from boring". I stated mine. Both are valid opinions in the eyes of the beholders.

But really Sue, the artist may be all you described him to be, the artist could be a certified genius, the artist could be lots of things, none of which means a damn thing when I look at a single piece and I form my opinion. I wasn't expressing an opinion about the artist. I was expressing an honest opinion (mine alone) about a giant stainless steel wired jug that I do not even consider to be of much interest, sorry to disappoint and sorry if I broke the rules of artistic judgment that you subscribe to.

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Posted by Smee on 07/27/2009 at 9:31 PM

Smee, you're an art critic as well? Ilan's work (ilansandler.com) is far from boring--sorry, you can't say that about someone who sculpted a full-size helicopter from simulated dinosaur bones. He's an incredibly thoughtful, intelligent artist who gets international commissions, and we're lucky he chooses to work from here.

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Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on 07/26/2009 at 11:59 AM

Boring at best! Check out what Kevin Stone does with stainless steel, a welding machine, and time.

http://www.metalanimation.com/

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Posted by Smee on 07/26/2009 at 9:12 AM