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21 December 2008

A Very Special Gift

For the 40th anniversary of Expo 67, Montreal-based artist, designer (and good friend of mine) DC Hillier decided to commemorate the world's fair by crafting a unique light sculpture. Called "The Anniversary Light" / "Lumière d'anniversaire", DC used recovered materials from an actual Expo 67 sculpture for one of his own works.

In 1967, a piece by renowned Quebec artist Jean Cartier called "La Giboulée" / "Sudden Shower" was on display in the Cité du Havre sector of Expo. Essentially a fountain, large glass disks graced the top of its spires.

Unfortunately, the original Cartier sculpture has since been left abandoned.

In 2007, DC Hillier was asked by one of the city's municipal committees to do an evaluation of the sculpture's condition. He was given permission to recuperate broken pieces of the once beautiful disks. Cleaned and polished, these thick glass pieces would become the main components of his anniversary sculpture, together with pre-ban Brazilian rosewood (dating from the same era) used for the base.

Together with the prototype, there are only 2 anniversary sculptures in existence. DC gave me one of them as a Christmas gift this year...

It is a gift I will cherish forever, one of the highlights of my Expo collection!



images: (1-3) DC Hillier
(4) Bill Dutfield

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5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonderful post, Jason. Love the link to the Brazilian rosewood info!

DC

2:04 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a thoughtful gift.

2:39 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A very special gift INDEED !!!! I'm sure your utter passion for Expo 67 brought you this - and for this you should be so very proud (and grateful too !!). It's priceless.

9:04 am  
Blogger Jason Stockl said...

I couldn't agree more, Mousse!

9:42 am  
Anonymous Jason Griffing said...

Wow..Jealous!

11:38 pm  

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