Floating Forest in Brookfield Place

The art installation titled ‘Floating Forest’ by Canadian artist Max Streicher hangs over the heads of people walking through the great hall of Brookfield Place. The trees are manufactured from recycled billboard vinyl and are a memorial to lost forests. The “mirage in an urban landscape” has trees that maintain their shape with internal fans so “It is a forest on life support, pointing to the futility of a civilization whose aspirations are frequently in conflict with the earth.” The piece will be in the long hall of the Allen Lambert Galleria from until April 22, 2011.

 Check out the Brookfield Place events page for upcoming events.

Celebrate 27 Art Fest: Urban Landscape

The United Nations (UN) Article 27 describes a universal right of all to participate in the arts and cultural life of the community, I think this was just before the Libyan thing, and the City of Toronto celebrates both the idea and Toronto's local artists with a series of events from April 1st to the 27th of 2011. Within Brookfield Place is an "Urban Landscape" exhibition of photographs under the glass roof of the stately Wayne Manor most commonly known as the Allen Lambert Galleria. These bottom photo is from Hawa Yusuf, mentored by exhibition lead photographer, artist and architect Michael Awad who made the other photos shown.

Mayor Rob Ford will launch the Festival on Thursday, March 31 at 6:30pm at the Galleria.

Brookfield Place Christmas

The folks at Brookfield Place have added bright lights in the massive hallway named the Allen Lambert Galleria. There is also a giant, floating, tree shaped decoration hanging in Sam Pollock Square. There are few interior of Toronto buildings that are more impressive than Brookfield Place and it is a perfect location for installation art displays.

A previous art installation hangs down from the arched hallway.

World Press Photo 10 at Brookfield Place

A large exhibition showcasing the best photojournalism photographs over the past year is traveling to over 100 cities around the world and it currently sits in Toronto's Brookfield Place. The display of pictures in the World Press Photo 10 will be in the Allen Lambert Galleria from October 6th to the 28th. Over 100,000 pictures were entered into the contest and there were only 167 winners.

I was passing through very quickly but I loved the nature shots from Canadian Paul Nicklen of National Geographic. This is a large bull seal elephant throwing sand over it's back.