2018-12-31T14:54:59+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section III ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Holodomor Memorial [Bitter Memories of Childhood]/2018 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Petro Drozdowsky Object Type/Medium Sculpture/Bronze Subject Holodomor, genocide by famine carried out in Ukraine by the Soviet government from 1932 to 1933 Venue Exhibition Place Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor [...]

2018-02-03T02:08:54+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section I ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Peace Monument/2015 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Kim Un Seng and Kim Suk Jeong Object Type/Medium Statue; chair; base/Bronze; granite Subject "Comfort Women," women and girls forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War [...]

2018-02-03T01:57:36+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section II ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Goddess of Democracy/2012 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Ruth Abernethy Object Type/Medium Statue/Bronze Subject Victims of the Tiananmen Square Uprising, Beijing (1989) Venue Student Centre, York University Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gift/Toronto Association for Democracy in China to [...]

2018-02-03T01:48:06+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section III ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Irish Famine Memorial/2007 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Rowan Gillespie Object Type/Medium Statue group/Bronze Subject Potato Famine (1845-1851) Venue Ireland Park Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Private commission/Ireland Park Foundation Ethno-cultural Community Irish community Additional Electronic Resources LINK 1 [...]

2018-02-03T01:24:09+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section I Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section II ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year La Réparation/1998 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Francine Larivée Object Type/Medium Sculpture/Marbre Subject All Victims of Twentieth Century Genocides Venue Parc Marcelin-Wilson Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Public commission/Armenian National Committee-Montreal branch & Ville de Montréal [...]

2018-02-02T23:45:25+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section II ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Broken Bicycle/1992 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Bruce Parsons and Gu Xiu Hei Object Type/Medium Wall sculpture/Bronze Subject Victims of the Tiananmen Square Uprising (1989) Venue UTSU building, University of Toronto Acquisition Method /Commissioner or Donor Gift/Toronto Association [...]

2018-02-02T23:43:33+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section II ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Goddess of Democracy/1991 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Joseph Caveno and Hung Chung Object Type/Medium Statue/Resin; marble dust composite Subject Tiananmen square uprising (1989) Venue Student Union Building Plaza, University of British Columbia campus Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor [...]

2018-02-02T23:41:47+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section I ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Alexander the Great/1990 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Dion Zachariou Object Type/Medium Bust/Bronze Subject Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon Venue Alexander the Great Parkette Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gift/Pan-Macedonian Association [...]

2018-02-02T23:39:31+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section III ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Crucified Again/1989 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Josef Randa Object Type/Medium Statue; sickle; hammer; base/Fiberglass; resin; steel; stone Subject Victims of Communism (1917-1989) Venue Masaryktown Park Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Private commission/Masaryk Memorial Institute  Ethno-cultural Community [...]

2018-02-02T23:36:58+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section III ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial/1989 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Eldon Garnet (artist commissioned to built and design the Memorial) Francis LeBouthillier (sculptor of the bronze figures) Object Type/Medium Wooden rail trestle; bronze statues; stone Subject Chinese workers who [...]

2018-02-02T23:05:19+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section III ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Dr. Sun Yat-Sen/1984 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Joe Rosenthal Object Type/Medium Statue; plinth/Bronze; granite Subject Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925), physician, politician and founding father of the Republic of China Venue Riverdale Park Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gift/Chinese Canadian [...]

2018-02-06T02:36:55+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section II ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Katyn Memorial/1980 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Tadeusz Janowski Object Type/Medium Sculpture/Bronze Subject Katyn Massacre (1940) Venue Beaty Boulevard Park  Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gift/Canadian Polish Congress to the City of Toronto Ethno-cultural Community Polish community Additional Electronic Resources [...]

2018-02-03T17:08:18+00:00

ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Monument à Isabelle La Catholique/1959 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) José Planes Peñalver  Object Type/Medium Bust/Bronze Subject Isabella I (1451-1504), Queen of Castile  Venue Parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gif/Madrid Institute of Hispanic Culture to the Ville of Montréal Ethno-cultural Community Spanish community Additional [...]

2018-02-02T22:44:53+00:00

Exhibition Foreign Pasts, Section I ARTWORK INFORMATION Title/Year Monument à Giovanni Caboto/1935 Artist (s) or Architect(s) or Designer (s) Guido Casini Object Type/Medium Bust;  pedestal/Bronze; travertine Subject Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450-1498), Venetian explorer and navigator  Venue Cabot Square Acquisition Method/Commissioner or Donor Gift/Montreal Italian community & Italian Montreal-based [...]