By FinchD
Photography: courtesy v2com
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©Maxime Brouillet
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Ar. Jean Verville designs a joyous,
experiential dance floor installation
– a perfect adjunct to the ongoing “Pompeii” exhibition at the adjoining Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Canada.
A competition win,
the dance floor is an interactive
urban landscape, designed as an avenue with a paving exceeding 5000 footprints.
Running along the wall of the Michal and RenataHornstein Pavilion, the
erstwhile Art Gallery for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, dance floor aims at developing the
street for public interactions.
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©Maxime Brouillet
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Combinations of black and metallic gold hues
allude to the ambivalence of decadence and death of the destructed city of
Pompeii, expressed in the exhibition. Fronting the Garden of Sculptures, another temporary summer installation by the
museum, the pavement celebrates the importance of public street art, its mosaic
of shimmering gold footprints transforming it into a pulsating trompe-l’oeil.
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The multifaceted promenade thus invites the
visitors to break into impromptu acts and performances, creating an
invigorating and inclusive public domain. While the pavement itself allures
miscellaneous interactive activities, the benches are an ideal instance of
street furniture.
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The dance
floor is a multi-purpose urban installation, simultaneously a stage and a house
arena, transitioning into a concrete park, an art gallery or simply a promenade
as per the users. The dynamic landscape fosters an experiential flow of
movements and interactions, which in turn creates opportunities for an
understanding and intrinsic appreciation of public spaces. The street thus
animates the downtown Montreal area and gives a boost to the visitors of the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, encouraging them to explore unique paths and
tours through the same.
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