CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Downtown – 1981 Avenue McGill College – RAYMOND MASON

The illuminated Crowd

Here is a symbolic statuary group of Montreal. The work was sculpted from a block of laminated polyurethane by RAYMOND MASON in 1985. It is the property of the Groupe Financier Industrielle Alliance, which exhibits it in front of its head office in Montreal.

Mason was an Englishman born in Birmingham in 1922 and died in Paris in 2010. Initially a painter, he branched out into sculpture in 1944. Influenced by his friend Giacometti, Mason’s work consists of bas-reliefs to which he tries to give life to make them valid.

Here is how Mason describes the Illuminated Crowd : ”A crowd has gathered, facing a light, an illumination brought about by a fire, an event, an ideology – or an ideal. The strong light casts shadows, and as the light moves toward the back and diminishes, the mood degenerates; rowdiness, disorder and violence occur, showing the fragile nature of man. Illumination, hope, involvement, hilarity, irritation, fear, illness, violence, murder and death – the flow of man’s emotion throught space.”  –  Patrice Loranger


INFOTHEK

Artist:  RAYMOND MASON

Website:  https://www.raymond-mason.com


Photographer: PATRICE LORANGER

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploranger4417

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100012346147213

Profile Page: https://vagabundler.com/culturists/patrice-loranger



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