Absent Artist

Ai Weiwei's Exhibit At Central Park Opens Monday. But Ai won't be attending the opening of his new outdoor exhibit. Read more HERE.

Ai WeiWei reaching for the Dog Zodiac Head at the bronze foundry in Chengdu, China. Photograph taken April 2010, © AW Asia.

We're INSIDE! ART gets dressed up for the Summit!

Security is tight, but Stone Parliament of Art is going to take you where you've never been before___behind the scenes as ART gets dressed up for the Summit! It's with great pleasure to showcase these rare photos.

Collaborating with the Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC), curator William Huffman of the Toronto Arts Council organized some 200 Canadian artworks which will be displayed to foreign dignitaries during the G8 and G20 summits. After the fake lake brouhaha, this comes as a better bit of G20 art news.

Installing the draping, MTCC G20

Signage is being put in place.

The Summit Room G20

All Summit Photos by Mary Calarco
Used With Permission.
View more of Calarco's Photos HERE.

G20 Summit Elevators

A press release says,

the development and installation of the Canadian Collection is being conceptualized as a national exhibition – providing an important Canadian, visual narrative for the numerous visiting international leaders. In exchange for its involvement, ADAC Foundation will receive a financial contribution. These funds will form seed capital for a developing endowment within the Foundation, aimed at providing its membership and individual artists with additional professional and developmental resources.

S.P. of Art is happy to hear about this project. It could lead to some quality works getting out there to represent Canada because the people involved generally have many years of art expertise between them.

Cast glass by Taliaferro Jones, Finance Ministers' meeting room #G20

The works which include one of Brian Jungen’s hockey masks and a sculpture of bears – front and back – by Dean Drever hanging in the Prime Minister’s Office, have been specially chosen by Huffman and a crew of 12 people to represent the breadth of contemporary Canadian artistic practice. Also on display in the PMO will be 2 landscapes by Winnipeg painter Ivan Eyre. There will be a stunning Riopelle in the leader’s lounge, and work by Montreal legendary Quebecoise artist Francoise Sullivan. Alongside these will be works chosen by the Ontario Crafts Council.

Françoise Sullivan, Chute concentrique.
Image: fanset8.blogspot.com

Françoise Sullivan, Danse dans la neige, 1948. Photographs by Maurice Perron, gelatin silver prints.
Image: canadacouncil.ca

Mary Calarco, Southwestern Regional Coordinator for the Ontario Crafts Council. Read more HERE.

More on Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan.HERE

Artists & Intellectuals Creating Domino's

It's a beautiful day! Tears are flowing...voices are singing. A beautiful vision!

FOAM DOMINO'S PAINTED BY ARTIST'S FROM ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY SYMBOLIZE THE OLD PATH...THE END OF COMMUNIST, FALLING OF THE BERLIN WALL AND END OF THE COLD WAR.

Hundreds of thousands of people are attending tonight’s event in which 1,000 giant domino pieces (made of fabric-covered polystyrene foam) will tumble as the Wall once did. The dominoes have been on display for two days, lined up over 1.2 km (0.75 miles) on the former site of the Berlin Wall from Checkpoint Charlie to the Reichstag.

The Goethe-Institute helped distribute the over-sized domino pieces around the world so they could be decorated by students, artists and intellectuals. Several public figures also decorated dominoes, including Barroso and European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek who will contribute to the toppling of the dominoes tonight.

Above, people walk next to giant domino pieces, that have been placed along a stretch of the Berlin Wall's original path, near to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (Nov. 9, 2009) The day-long celebrations mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Photo: Culture Monster

" Oversize "dominos" stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The elements will fall during the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the inner German border to symbolize the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dominos were created by pupils from Berlin and international artists. Credit: Tim Brakemeier / European Pressphoto Agency. "

Photo Image here.