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Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke, Montréal, Québec
1976
Project
Les Maisons de la Rue Sherbrooke was both a site-specific installation/construction for Corrid’Art (1976), commissioned by the Programme art et culture, XXIe Olympiade, and a series of drawings and constructed photographs. The installation consisted of the construction of two full-sized facades of 19th century greystone town houses out of rough plywood and pipe scaffolding. The facades were erected in a vacant lot on Rue Sherbrooke, and mirrored the townhouses which still stood on the opposite side of the intersection. The constructed photographs of the same name, and also The Site, Les Maisons, 1976 and The Site Altered, Les Maisons, 1976, depict an intersection in which one side of the street mirrors the other perfectly. By reprinting the photograph, reversed and superimposed on itself, Charney fills a vacant lot with a suggestion of its past. One week after the installation of Les Maisons de la Rue Sherbrooke municipal authorities of the City of Montreal ordered it to be destroyed. Demolition began the night of July 13, 1976.
Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
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Includes three montages of photographs, a reprographic copy and typewritten text with colored pencil, graphite and ink with white paint. An explanatory panel for the installation "Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke" and "Les éléments de la rue", Corridart Exhibition, Montréal, 1976.
1 File
sheet: 41.5 x 52.6 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 40 × 51 cm
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Estate of Melvin Charney/SODRAC (2015)
DR1984:1569
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 40 × 51 cm
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Estate of Melvin Charney/SODRAC (2015)
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 43 x 57 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Estate of Melvin Charney/SODRAC
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 20 x 26 cm
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheets: 65 x 90 cm
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Objects that have been catalogued:
A view of the installation for the Corridart project.
1 File
sheet: 40 x 50 cm
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
© Estate of Melvin Charney/SODRAC
DR1994:0017
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 45.6 x 61.7 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
1 File
sheet (smallest); 31.7 x 22.0 cm sheet (largest): 46.0 x 61.0 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Melvin Charney/
Gift of Melvin Charney
Contains the following photographs, matted:
- The site... les maisons de la rue;
- The site altered... les maisons de la rue.
1 photographic material(s)
sheets: 35,4 × 48,7 cm (13 15/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
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