Visual Art: September 2012 Archives

Friday September 21, 2012

Remembering Melvin Charney

Artist, architect and teacher Melvin Charney passed away this week at the age of 77.

 

Even if you feel like you don't know much about architecture or urban design, if you have spent much time in Montreal you have almost certainly come into contact with the work of Melvin Charney.

 

He designed the sculpture in Place Emilie-Gamelin, outside the Berri-UQAM metro. (pictured)

Charney also designed the sculpture garden at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Ottawa.

 

Phyllis Lambert (pictured, left, photo by Carrie Haber) was a friend and colleague of Charney's.

 

She is the designer of the Segal Centre and  founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

 

In fact, it was Phyllis Lambert who commissioned Charney to design the sculpture garden at the CAA.

 

Cinq à Six host Jeanette Kelly spoke with Phyllis Lambert about Melvin Charney's enduring influence on the urban design of the city. Listen to the interview:

 

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Categories: Urban Design, Visual Art, architecture

 

• October 2012
  • Tue., 2 – Arts organizations get creative with funding
     
• September 2012
  • Sat., 22 – The controversial history of La Petite Danseuse
     
  • Fri., 21 – Remembering Melvin Charney
     
• June 2012
  • Sat., 23 – Ads put car company under pressure
     
  • Sat., 23 – Cartooning Calamities!
     
  • Fri., 8 – New Cree Cultural Institute in Oujé-Bougoumou
     
  • Mon., 4 – Beyond Pop Art: Tom Wesselman
     
• May 2012
  • Sat., 19 – Are all the artists red?
     
  • Fri., 4 – Quebec City biennial examines man's relationship with machines
     
• April 2012
  • Wed., 25 – Judging Books by their Covers
     
  • Fri., 20 – École de la montagne rouge
     
• March 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Arts students in the protest movement
     
• February 2012
  • Sat., 18 – Gaëtane Verna has the power
     
  • Mon., 13 – Art by women in 2012
     
  • Sat., 4 – Wangechi Mutu at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
     
• January 2012
  • Sat., 14 – Winter culture in Canadian art
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 9 – Window Dressing
     
  • Sat., 3 – The Canada Notebook
     
• November 2011
  • Sat., 19 – New energy in the Quebec contemporary art scene
     
  • Sat., 19 – An art lover's dream job
     
  • Sat., 19 – Francois Rochon's private collection
     
  • Sat., 12 – Liberté! Liberté?
     
• October 2011
  • Sat., 29 – Scent Sculptor
     
  • Fri., 28 – Occupy Montreal
     
  • Fri., 21 – Farming on Film
     
  • Sat., 8 – New pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art
     
• September 2011
  • Sat., 24 – Art: What's the Point?
     
  • Sat., 17 – Daytrip to Joliette
     
• June 2011
  • Sat., 18 – Art à la table
     
  • Fri., 10 – SOS Richelieu
     
• May 2011
  • Sat., 28 – Masq'alors
     
• April 2011
  • Sat., 30 – Painting the Royal Couple
     
  • Sat., 16 – Marc Séguin
     
• February 2011
  • Tue., 22 – Corno's Art and Desire