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Jan Kaláb’s Graffiti Has Always Been Art + Now It’s Even More

Design Milk

“My paintings teeter on the edge of sculpture and my sculptures are mostly painted,” said Czechoslovakian contemporary artist Jan Kaláb. Since the early days of his practice, paintings, sculptures, and 3D graffiti have been added to his portfolio, and his work has been shown in galleries around the world.

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A Massive Steel Sculpture Gets a Room of its Own

Azure Magazine

Sculptor Richard Serra’s creative practice deals in the malleability of space: his larger-than-life sculptures refuse to adapt to a pedestal or plinth, instead standing declaratively alone — sometimes in locations deemed impractical. London Cross (2014) was first shown at the Gagosian in London as part of a temporary exhibition.

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A Montreal Sportswear Brand’s First Boutique Elegantly Reflects its High-Tech Product

Azure Magazine

Founded in Montreal in 2014 by Jeremy Bresnen and Mike Giles, Ciele Athletics aimed to fill a specific niche in the running world – lightweight and stylish headwear that performed as good as it looked. The post A Montreal Sportswear Brand’s First Boutique Elegantly Reflects its High-Tech Product appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Montreal’s New Biodome Immerses Visitors in Nature

Azure Magazine

This elegant and gentle conversation with the city’s former Olympic Velodrome could be mistaken as sculptural play for its own sake. KANVA’s mandate following their successful bid at the international redesign competition in 2014 appropriately follows suit. But nothing is that simple in the Biodome.

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Top 10 of 2023: Our Favourite Public Spaces

Azure Magazine

As a result, children can now delight in the park’s charming custom playground equipment, which includes climbable river otter, sturgeon and salamander sculptures by Danish studio Monstrum. Its popular outdoor performances became a fixture of summer in the city before the space eventually closed in 2014.

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An Outdoor Theatre in Montreal Begins Its Second Act

Azure Magazine

First inaugurated in 1956, the open-air theatre (built on a small island within Montreal’s La Fontaine Park) grew into a popular destination for summertime Shakespeare performances before falling into disrepair and shuttering in 2014. The post An Outdoor Theatre in Montreal Begins Its Second Act appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Michael Maltzan Unveils a New Centre for Inuit Art in Winnipeg

Azure Magazine

Echoing the convex and concave gestures of the architecture, the undulating glass-clad visible vault contains over 4,500 sculptures by artists from across the North. A wide range of sculptural works in a bevy of media — from serpentinite to clay — occupy the undulating space.

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