Michael Snow: Wood Calling Bronze

With the installation of Michael Snow’s Wood Calling Bronze, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre achieves its 34^th permanently sited outdoor work for the Sculpture Park. One of Canada’s best-known living artists, Snow has exhibited his sculptures, paintings, and photo-based works around the world since 1957. His best known public sculptures include Flightstop, the flying Canada geese in downtown Toronto’s Eaton Centre, and The Audience, the larger than life fans that loom above two  entrances of the Rogers Centre (Toronto). Snow is also an internationally recognized experimental filmmaker, improvisational musician and composer, and writer. Among his many achievements, Snow received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (Cinema) in 2000, and in 2007, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

In 1983, the two-and-a-half acres surrounding the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre were developed into the Donald Forster Sculpture Park. The park has since developed to include 34 sculptures with the long term objective to acquire 50 individual pieces. As an evolving curatorial project, the park has also featured temporary sound installations. It is open to the public year-round, daily from dawn to dusk. The sculptures represent the best work being produced in Canada augmented by key historical pieces.

Ranking among the country’s most comprehensive outdoor collections, the Sculpture Park is a uniquely dynamic public space. This fall, the Sculpture Park is expanded to include Michael Snow’s Wood Calling Bronze, a central work in this artist’s recent visual practice. Wood Calling Bronze was purchased with support from the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre (Guelph), and from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2007.

Unveiling in the Sculpture Park:  Wednesday, September 17 at 7 pm

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