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The Gardiner Expressway has been called a lot of things, but it’s never been called art — until now.
Toronto Culture will unveil a new artwork Thursday night that will turn a small stretch of the Gardiner Expressway’s underside into shimmering water.
The light and sound work, Watertable, aims to mark the original shoreline of Lake Ontario at Fork York Boulevard.
Toronto artists Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak were chosen from among five finalists whose submissions will be unveiled at an open house at Fort York Thursday night.
‘‘Watertable has a considerable scale and will have significant impact, particularly at night. The work will be installed in between the massive pillars of the Gardiner Expressway at a point where the distance between them is the widest, 26 metres. At this section they are extraordinarily high, so they have a sense of monumentality about them,’’ says Clara Hargittay of Toronto Culture.
February 28, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I love street art and am an avid pedestrian and cyclist(no car to my name)and have lived downtown for over 25 years–so I am particularly aware of the urban landscape/street furniture. What is appalling therefore is how the city and hydro seems to be ignoring the simple approach to beautification—maintaining what we already have on the streets–THERE is incredible ugliness on our streets when more than half the downtown lights are not working and many of the fixtures especially along Spadina lamp posts are missing and exposing wires near the base and
where people stuff garbage inside. So Watertable is very inventive and offers light but I would ask the city to please get our streetlight working in top order first.
Please and Thank you.