Communigraph 70 - Ottawa, Ontario
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N 45° 24.752 W 075° 39.399
18T E 448618 N 5028988
This artwork by Art Price is located in front of the Ottawa Postal Terminal, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WMX5ET
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/30/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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Price designed “Communigraph ’70” for Ottawa’s new Postal Terminal. Government spending cutbacks of the day reduced his budget by 30 percent. This meant he had to use less metal and make radical alterations in the design. Originally he had intended to make rough-textured cylindrical forms but the casting would have been too expensive for the budget reductions. Instead he changed the forms to flat fins which were cast in a clay and sand mixture and welded together, giving the illusion of enclosing an actual volume, but in fact using much less aluminum. The work was carried out at Alloy Foundry in Merrickville. The concept of a three dimensional graph symbolized the lows and highs of human physical and mental communication potential.


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Title: Communigraph 70

Artist: Art Price

Media (materials) used: Aluminum

Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Postal Terminal -1424 Sandford Fleming Ave (at Industrial Ave)

Date of creation or placement: 1970

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