Original upload date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:36:29 GMT
On Monday, August 10, work began on the new public work HOMMAGE À MICHEL CHARTRAND : LA FORCE OUVRIÈRE by Armand Vaillancourt, a monumental sculpture for the Parc Michel Chartrand in Longueuil, set fo
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r completion in October 2015. The colossal work is composed of 20 steel plates each weighing 24 tons, 32 feet in height, 4 feet 8 inches wide and 8 inches thick, resting on a base of reinforced concrete.
The maquette of the final sculpture is currently on display at Arsenal Montréal among a selection of other works spanning Vaillancourt’s 60 year career. The artist has been a longtime supporter of various causes, primarily among them the Quebec labour movement. We visited him at his home/studio, where we dug around his archives comprising hundreds of notebooks, press clippings and other artefacts, which refer to nearly 3000 of his artworks.
