Tag: sculpture

O’Keeffe and Moore

There is currently a wonderful touring exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The show is called Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art. This meticulously curated exhibition is a creation of the San Diego Museum of Art and will not be shown in any other Canadian city.

Far from being a simple parallel display of two well-known artists, the exhibition brings the visitor on a journey, highlighting how, despite having lived on different continents and having worked (mainly) with different media, the artists evolved in similar ways, approached nature with awe and reverence and took their inspiration from it. O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Moore (1898-1986) both lived in a big city before relocating to a rural setting where they could more easily connect with the natural world.

We came out of the exhibition both enriched and invigorated.

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The Ottawa rock artist

Every summer, Remic Rapids Park is the setting for a remarkable display of balanced rock sculptures on the shore of the Ottawa River. The park is just a few kilometres from the city centre and offers expansive and relaxing views of the river, the rapids and the urban landscape in the distance.

The temporary public art display is the work of an exceptional artist named John Felice Ceprano, who has created his rock sculptures on this site since 1986, using the wide variety of rocks available in the river.  What started as a project has become a regular fixture and people from Ottawa and far beyond return to Remic Rapids every summer to see and enjoy another original display of balanced rock sculptures.

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