Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
In the Cylinder
Alternate Title:
Dans le cylindre
Image View:
Detail of the photograph of a tornado funnel which is part of the installation
Creator:
Raymond Gervais (Canadian installation artist, born 1946)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2010.32
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
1994 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
installation (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Photography, cylinder phonograph and table
Technique:
assemblage (sculpture technique); photography
Measurements:
207 cm (height) x 64.5 cm (width) x 36.5 cm (depth, ensemble)
Subjects:
abstraction; allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); assemblage; tornadoes; gramophones; cylinder phonograph; metaphor
Description:
A cylinder phonograph (later called gramophones) played recordings made on hollow wax cylinders, first commercially released in 1887. The bell-shaped speaker mimics the shape of the tornado funnel cloud in the photograph above. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GERVAIS-ITC-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

In the Cylinder