Milutin Gubash
Plan Large
A Walk in the Park, 2003
Milutin Gubash
From September 25, 2003
inauguration on September 25 from 6pm to 8pm
always visible
Quartier Éphémère, in keeping with its concern for the tradition of in situ art installations, has the pleasure of presenting A Walk in the Park, a photographic work by Canadian artist Milutin Gubash, in the context of the second edition of Plan Large, an ongoing site-specific series of interventions by artists executed on luminescent advertising panels within the city.
This event has an important place within the ongoing process of revitalisation of the Faubourg des Récollets, the old industrial quarter situated in proximity to the Old Port. Beginning in 2001, this event was realised by three photographers using three abandoned advertising panels. The photographers were Neil Budzinski, Isabelle Hayeur and Alexandra Sà. The original event was awarded the Prix Orange in 2001 for the quality of its intervention in the urban milieu.
One of the three light boxes has this year been made available for the creative expression of a new artist: Milutin Gubash, whose photograph has been chosen among several other projects.
A Walk in the Park is a work from a series of 360-degree panoramic photographs entitled Re-enacting Tragedies While My Parents Look On. In each of the images in this serial work, Milutin Gubash himself reenacts situations recounted in the local Calgary newspaper, and his audience always includes almost one of his two parents looking on.
Gubash aims to make an image in which he can point to the very spot where reports indicate a particularly dramatic and unresolved event has actually taken place and which he chooses to re-envisage, and they are at once troubling and enigmatic. Also worth noting, the interpretive key to A Walk in the Park is not contained within the image, but can be found on the Internet, on the website www.iprojects.org/tragedies, one can find it among an inventory of the images the artist has compiled and assembled in this series.
The photography of Milutin Gubash rejoins the work of Isabelle Hayeur and Neil Budzinski beginning September 25, 2003. Quartier Éphémère has the pleasure of inviting you the same day to a vernissage in the street at the corner of Duke and William streets from 6pm to 8pm.