Between January 21st and February 26th, five wintertime art installations will enliven Toronto's waterfront on Queens Quay West. In a collaboration between Winter Stations and the Waterfront Business Improvement Area, the "Ice Breakers" exhibition was created "to inspire exploration of the urban Waterfront in the colder months."
"The Waterfront is one of Toronto’s busiest communities in the summertime but, like The Beach, it can be under-appreciated as temperatures drop," explains Roland Rom Colthoff, principle at RAW design and a Winter Stations co-founder. "Like Winter Stations, Ice Breakers is an interactive celebration of public art. We want to nudge Torontonians back outside and inspire them to keep engaging with the city."
The five installations will be on display at Harbourfront Centre, HTO Park, Rees Street Parkette, Peter Street Basin, and the Music Garden East. Read on to see all five proposals.
Leeward Fleet / RAW (Canada Square, Harbourfront Centre)
Celebrating Toronto’s rich harbour history, design studio RAW introduces three pivoting structures to Canada Square. Inspired by ice and sailboat technology, enamel masts hold up brightly coloured sails, each of which serve as sculptural references to the days prior to ferry transportation.
ICEBOX / Polymetis (HTO Park)
The Canadian winter is a landscape of contrasts: between empty blank whiteness and things not fully shrouded in snow and ice; between the (more-or-less) static physical world and the temporal surfaces of frozen water that accumulate and dissipate over it; between being inside, in the warmth, and being outside, in the cold. "ICEBOX" seeks to manifest these contrasts and provide space for introspection, social interaction, and shared appreciation of winter.
Winter Diamonds / Platant (Music Garden East)
The shimmering lights emitted from "White Diamonds" attract contemplation of these fragile, yet solid structures. The viewer is invited to engage with a poetic and dreamy focal point, in a vast winter landscape.
Incognito / Curio Art Consultancy and Jaspal Riyait (Rees Street Parkette)
Using architectural massing models as the inspiration for the structures, "Incognito" explores what happens when you make the City’s architectural interventions invisible. Adopting the same camouflaging technology used by warships, the wintery environment will render the installation truly incognito, shaping the public’s interaction with the piece.
Tailored Twins / Ferris + Associates (Peter Street Basin)
A set of faceted wooden hands rise three metres from the lookouts at the Peter Street Basin. Their gold-mirror palms bath the basin in a warm sun-like glow.
Project descriptions via Ice Breakers.
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Exhibition: Ice BreakersType
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Ice BreakersFrom
January 21, 2017 03:49 PMUntil
February 26, 2017 03:49 PMVenue
Waterfront, TorontoAddress