Innercity Gate - Toronto, ON
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N 43° 39.539 W 079° 23.227
17T E 630050 N 4835261
This sculpture is a balancing act of boxes.
Waymark Code: WMCWXW
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/20/2011
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Innercity Gate is one of the sculptures by Kosso Eloul where he once again used large stainless steel rectangular boxes that are precariously balanced. This piece consists of three large, black stainless steel rectangular boxes. Two boxes are each balancing on one edge and are supporting the third box which rests horizontally on top of them. The box on top of the sculpture is twice the length of the the two supporting boxes. These boxes should not still be standing, it is impossible for them to remain upright in the positions they are locked in.
Inner City Gate can be found on the lawn of the R. Fraser Elliott Building which is connected to the Toronto General Hospital.
About the artist:
"Kosso Eloul, sculptor (b at Mourom, USSR 22 Jan 1920; d at Toronto, Ont 8 Nov 1995). Eloul's art training started in Tel Aviv in 1938 and continued in 1939 at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, and at the Chicago School of Design with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. After service in WWII and the War of Independence in Palestine, he returned to his art in 1948. In 1959 he represented Israel at the 29th Venice Biennale. After the First Sculpture Symposium in Yugoslavia in 1961, he set up a similar event in the Negev Desert in 1962; his lifelong involvement with international SCULPTURE conferences began then. He settled permanently in Toronto in 1969 and was the moving force behind the 10th Sculpture Conference held there in 1978.
Eloul's characteristic monumental sculptures grace the public spaces of many Canadian cities. His gleaming rectangles of highly polished aluminum or stainless steel are balanced precariously at unusual angles, testing and probing the laws of gravity. Although usually described as minimalist, their inherent energy and restless potential for movement transcend the contemplative minimalist sensibility."
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