2005-06-02
MONTREAL TRIP RECAP
imagine this picture as a jigsaw puzzle 30 foot x 6 foot in size while the pieces no larger than 1/2 inch square
There was so much to see, and do, and mentally absorb | Some notes from the off-line journal/sketchbook |
It was the first time we'd ever been able to see Cirque du Soliel in it's home turf | Even at that this took place only because we bought tickets in December 2004 | As with other shows we'd seen elsewhere [Boston; Hartford, CT; on BRAVO network] the more than abundant feats of physical virtuosity were breath-taking | Costumes, while by and large a play on on early Italian Renissance fashion eccentricities, where nonetheless original, colorful and augmented the scenes passing before ur eyes | And, as usual, langauge remained unimportant | And I can't forget the whistler nor the little girl [a midget, actually] being tossed about wearing a circular harness attached to half a dozen HUGE transparent, spheroid balloons |
Then there was the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | There, in addition to catching Fiona Tan's St Sebastian [see entry below], I was intrigued by a 2003 video/film by Vancouver based artist Damian Moppett entitled 1815-1962 [check his work at Catrina Jeffries gallery under "artists"]; a series of jigsaw puzzles [regrettably, I didn't scribe the name of the artist] that included a 30'x6' multi-imaged copy of Brughel's Tower of Babel [just the thought of putting together a jigsaw puzzle ofthat size is staggering] and a series of constructions, origami-like using old magazines and junk but transformed into several obsessively beautiful pieces |
"Culture missed" included events offered as part of the festival de Theatre des Ameriques and the coreography of Ohad Naharin [all performed the same night we went to Cirque du Soliel] ¶ 00:53
imagine this picture as a jigsaw puzzle 30 foot x 6 foot in size while the pieces no larger than 1/2 inch square
It was the first time we'd ever been able to see Cirque du Soliel in it's home turf | Even at that this took place only because we bought tickets in December 2004 | As with other shows we'd seen elsewhere [Boston; Hartford, CT; on BRAVO network] the more than abundant feats of physical virtuosity were breath-taking | Costumes, while by and large a play on on early Italian Renissance fashion eccentricities, where nonetheless original, colorful and augmented the scenes passing before ur eyes | And, as usual, langauge remained unimportant | And I can't forget the whistler nor the little girl [a midget, actually] being tossed about wearing a circular harness attached to half a dozen HUGE transparent, spheroid balloons |
Then there was the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | There, in addition to catching Fiona Tan's St Sebastian [see entry below], I was intrigued by a 2003 video/film by Vancouver based artist Damian Moppett entitled 1815-1962 [check his work at Catrina Jeffries gallery under "artists"]; a series of jigsaw puzzles [regrettably, I didn't scribe the name of the artist] that included a 30'x6' multi-imaged copy of Brughel's Tower of Babel [just the thought of putting together a jigsaw puzzle ofthat size is staggering] and a series of constructions, origami-like using old magazines and junk but transformed into several obsessively beautiful pieces |
"Culture missed" included events offered as part of the festival de Theatre des Ameriques and the coreography of Ohad Naharin [all performed the same night we went to Cirque du Soliel] ¶ 00:53
