graphique
4Flight
PH2023:0002:001-100
Description:
Set of 100 different postcards created for the CCA for the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, on view from 3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024.
2000 (printed 2023)
4Flight
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PH2023:0002:001-100
Description:
Set of 100 different postcards created for the CCA for the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, on view from 3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024.
graphique
2000 (printed 2023)
PH1983:0258
Description:
- Alternate title "Anse de Mont-Saint-Pierre, Gaspésie" is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see Exhibition Files, s.v. "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture
ca. 1929
View of Anse de Mont-Saint-Pierre showing sheds and boats in the foreground, Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada
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PH1983:0258
Description:
- Alternate title "Anse de Mont-Saint-Pierre, Gaspésie" is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see Exhibition Files, s.v. "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture
Projet
AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
1969-1971
Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture] (1970-1971)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
Project
1969-1971
graphique
4Flight
PH2023:0001:001-100
Description:
Set of 100 different postcards created for the CCA on the occassion of the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, on view from 3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024.
2000 (printed 2023)
4Flight
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PH2023:0001:001-100
Description:
Set of 100 different postcards created for the CCA on the occassion of the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, on view from 3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024.
graphique
2000 (printed 2023)
PH1980:0505
Description:
- The headboard and a footboard are in Servule Morneau's house. - The constructed alternate title is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see exhibition file "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture, sculpture
1950
Détail d'un châlit sculpté par Servule Morneau, artisan de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec
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PH1980:0505
Description:
- The headboard and a footboard are in Servule Morneau's house. - The constructed alternate title is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see exhibition file "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture, sculpture
DR2019:0002
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One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
2019
"Udine" from the series "Our happy life: city scenes"
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DR2019:0002
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One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
DR2019:0003
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One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
2019
"Windsor landscape" from the series "Our happy life: city scenes"
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DR2019:0003
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One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
DR2019:0004
Description:
One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
2019
"City balcony" from the series "Our happy life: city scenes"
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DR2019:0004
Description:
One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
DR2019:0005
Description:
One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
2019
"Boston rock" from the series "Our happy life: city scenes"
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DR2019:0005
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One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
DR2019:0006
Description:
One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).
2019
"Isfahan square" from the series "Our happy life: city scenes"
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DR2019:0006
Description:
One of a series of eight city scenes created for the CCA exhibition "Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism" (May 8-October 13, 2019).