MONUMENT TO DUST Ruin, Resurfacing, and Ethics of Care in Relation to Monument to Dawn
Date
2024-09-23
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0009-0005-4687-1957
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Masters
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Monument to Dust
The abstract expressionist sculpture, Monument to Dawn, by William (Bill) Epp first saw light in 1967 when the mild steel work was presented in an exhibition by the National Gallery of Canada, Sculpture ’67, in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. 57 years later, Jean-Sébastien Gauthier, Epp’s grandson, dismantles this monumental artwork in a processual project entitled, Monument to Dust. Part culmination, part provocation, a celebration of ruin, and enactment of ethics of care, this response to familial love and legacy acknowledges impermanence and questions the life cycles of artists and artworks, intentions, methodologies, and style.
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Sculpture, intermedia art, performance art, ethics of care, reflectivity, institutional critique, monumentality, archival reflectivity, abstraction, abstract expressionism, legacy, ruin, object-oriented ontology, cybernetics, Saskatchewan, Bill Epp, William Harold Epp, commensurate art, non-purposive art, refusal, provocation
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Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department
Art and Art History
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Studio Art