Artworks created as part of the fund-raising campaign
SITEGEIST – THE SPIRIT OF A PLACE (2012-2013)
The goal of this project, which took place during the magazine’s first fundraising campaign, was to create original artworks that would convey the spirit of places chosen by the participating collectors.
Based on the idea of matching up a collector and an artist, the project offered a unique opportunity to collectors who love contemporary art to come into closer contact with artists and their creative worlds. During the meetings, collectors were able to express personal resonances attached to a place and discuss the reading that the artist was inspired to make to transpose these resonances into his or her creative world.
Rather than simply the acquisition of an existing artwork, our project thus proposed a unique experience – considering that artists and collectors meet quite rarely – and resulted in a series of new and surprising artworks.
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The artists Angela Grauerholz, Alain Paiement, Chuck Samuels, Gabor Szilasi, Luc Courchesne, and Evergon supported the magazine by contributing their talents.
And the collectors Charles Lapointe, François R. Roy, Alexandre Taillefer, Debbie Zakaib, Phyllis Lambert, and Thomas Marcantonio contributed to the campaign by acquiring the resulting artworks.
The spirit of a place: An unexpected, amusing image of a place that is otherwise banal, a fragmented view of a domestic environment saturated with artworks, plays on reflection within a camera in counterpoint with a simulated self-portrait, photographic transposition of the first representation of the modern horizon, and finally, an impromptu full-length portrait taken in the studio – these are some of the visions of the spirit of a place that resulted from the project.
We would like to thank the collectors, as well as the numerous artists and gallery owners, who agreed to support the magazine by participating in this campaign. We extend our thanks to our partner ENCADREX, which generously provided framing services, as well as to Mélanie Boulanger, for her valuable advice during the preparation of the campaign.
