The chairs:
http://www.bancspublics.net/quebec_vieux_Quebec_4.htm
And another article:
http://www.michelgoulet.ca/fr/projets/rever.htm
Google translation:
Dreaming the New World - "chairs poems"
The work of Michel Goulet was chosen following a competition launched from Montreal artists last summer. It is key to the
chair and the poem. The
chair is a recurring motif in the work of Michel Goulet, and is, in some ways, the signature of his sculpture. "The
chair has always been the pretext for meeting, sharing, exchange and reveals what our singles, but also what brings us together, we now rank, sharpens awareness. With the new dream world, I wanted to create a living work of which the subject and the material is people and their dialogues, attendance and absences, their commitments and expectations, "noted Mr. Michel Goulet.
The work consists in total of forty-four chairs made of stainless steel. The
chair-
chair the House and greet passers-world when they are strategically placed at the forefront of the work. We can read on the seat of one of them "Dreaming the New World." These chairs are arranged in a house and a bronze globe to illustrate the extremes of public and private space. Ensuing forty chairs, placed in pairs in all configurations, with the inscription of forty fragments of texts written by forty poets from the first day of the founding of
Quebec today. La Chaise-Montreal-
Quebec and
chair complete the whole work and focus, embedded in their seats, a scaled-down representation of the river cast in bronze and oriented in the same axis as the St. Lawrence River.
The 40 participating poets: Claude Beausoleil, Michel Bibaud, Nicole Brossard, Paul Chamberland, Cecile Cloutier, Leonard Cohen, Hugues Corriveau, Louise Cotnoir, Octave Crémazie, Jean-Paul Daoust, Normand de Bellefeuille, Denise Desautels, Alfred Desrochers, Kim Doré, Hélène Dorion, Louise Dupré, Madeleine Gagnon, St-Denys Garneau, Claude Gauvreau, Roland Giguère, Charles Gill, Gérald Godin, Alain Grandbois, Anne Hébert, Dany Laferrière, Gatien Lapointe, Irving Layton, Félix Leclerc, Marc Lescarbot, Paul Chanel Malenfant Rita Mestokosho, Gaston Miron, Émile Nelligan, Pierre Nepveu, Emily Novalinga, Pierre Perrault, Joseph Quesnel, Jean Royer, Gilles Vigneault, Yolande Villemaire
)! That's awesome!