Buttress
April 1 – 23, 2005
Exhibition
About the Program
Buttress is an architectural installation consisting of tall elongated plywood structures leaned diagonally against the gallery walls. These large vertical panels reference the flying buttress, an exterior structure built during the Gothic period to support monumental cathedrals. However, in the present exhibition, their primary function is reversed as a supporting structure, since the wood panels are installed in an already self-supporting interior space. The surfaces are carved with grinders, routers, sanders, and chisels to expose their core and organic origin. The resulting imagery evokes topographical forms and fictional mappings. Therefore, these pieces become hybrid structures that reveal themselves through their own erosions, underlying the dichotomy between natural and cultural.Artist
Yechel GagnonIdentifier
2005.0401 BUTCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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