Client: Premieres-Seigneuries School board
Location: Lac Beauport, QC, Canada
Completion date: 2016
Artwork budget: $53,500
Project Team
Artist
Bill Vincent
Industry Resource
FOL Art Public
FOL Art Public
Overview
8 square feet (window), 8 square feet (outside wall relief). 7 columns of hand- carved, edge -lit Plexiglas sheets bent into book shapes depicting a tree of knowledge for a school library. The work references old encyclopedias as well as modern computer arborescent filing.
Goals
I wanted to refer to ancient and modern means of classifying, storing and disseminating knowledge for a school library. The work needed to be visible inside and outside, daytime and evening.
Process
The artist designed the artwork, made technical plans,and carved tree branches and numbers on both side of plexiglass. Plexiglas drilled and bent by plexiglass supplier. Aluminum structure built by FOL: Art Public workshop in Quebec City . Installation by artist and FOL Art Public
Additional Information
Project part of Quebec Provincial 1% Public Art Program, which applies to all provincial governmental building in the Province of Quebec, Canada