Merlion
06-09-2007, 11:18 PM
The owner has change hands two times. To people in the warehouse, they would not know nor care that this is a $260,000 metal sculpture, brightly colored or not, especially if the owner does not keep up with the warehouse payments.
Whoops! Edmonton loses huge city sculpture (http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=db1e5f31-9c7c-4b8c-9745-f1f119fc2cd2&k=20905)
June 09, 2007, EDMONTON - It's big, brightly coloured and missing.
The City of Edmonton has lost a 32-metre-wide metal sculpture that spanned an entire street.
"You couldn't just lose it in your garage," said Mayor Stephen Mandel. "We are trying to locate it but cannot, which is unacceptable. It is an expensive piece of art."
The city bought the artwork for $78,000 in 1987 to decorate a downtown railroad bridge.
The city spent another $191,000, including $50,000 from CN Rail, to install the two-piece folded-metal Fanway on both sides of the bridge.
Artists Harry Savage and Sylvain Voyer created the work after winning a design competition.
The piece on the north side of the bridge was painted in dark blues and greens, suggesting a night sky. The piece on the south side was mostly yellow and red, evoking sunlight and the colours of Chinatown.
The Fanway remained in place until 2001, when Qualico Developments bought the bridge and surrounding property from CN Rail, and replaced the art with a billboard ....
Qualico says it stored the sculpture and offered to re-install it in another location at their expense.
Then the city took it off Qualico's hands - and that's the last anyone can recall of it.......
"All of our computers, vehicles and equipment are traceable," Mandel said - but big art works apparently are not.
From another source, this is a picture of one half of the artwork being installed in 1988.
http://media.canada.com/51df8522-e0a5-44bf-ad15-5fc7d54dfa34/Fanway%20View%20A%2088.jpg
Whoops! Edmonton loses huge city sculpture (http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=db1e5f31-9c7c-4b8c-9745-f1f119fc2cd2&k=20905)
June 09, 2007, EDMONTON - It's big, brightly coloured and missing.
The City of Edmonton has lost a 32-metre-wide metal sculpture that spanned an entire street.
"You couldn't just lose it in your garage," said Mayor Stephen Mandel. "We are trying to locate it but cannot, which is unacceptable. It is an expensive piece of art."
The city bought the artwork for $78,000 in 1987 to decorate a downtown railroad bridge.
The city spent another $191,000, including $50,000 from CN Rail, to install the two-piece folded-metal Fanway on both sides of the bridge.
Artists Harry Savage and Sylvain Voyer created the work after winning a design competition.
The piece on the north side of the bridge was painted in dark blues and greens, suggesting a night sky. The piece on the south side was mostly yellow and red, evoking sunlight and the colours of Chinatown.
The Fanway remained in place until 2001, when Qualico Developments bought the bridge and surrounding property from CN Rail, and replaced the art with a billboard ....
Qualico says it stored the sculpture and offered to re-install it in another location at their expense.
Then the city took it off Qualico's hands - and that's the last anyone can recall of it.......
"All of our computers, vehicles and equipment are traceable," Mandel said - but big art works apparently are not.
From another source, this is a picture of one half of the artwork being installed in 1988.
http://media.canada.com/51df8522-e0a5-44bf-ad15-5fc7d54dfa34/Fanway%20View%20A%2088.jpg