July 24th, 2007
Who is painting the manhole covers?
By Christopher DeWolf // 6 Comments
I'm not just asking --- I really want to know. Over the past month, somebody has painted dozens of manhole covers around Mile End, on Park Avenue, Bernard Street and St. Viateur Street. It's quite a lovely endeavour, adding a bit of colour to the sidewalk while drawing attention to an overlooked but essential piece of civic infrastructure.
Crossposted to Urbanphoto.
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You're probably thinking of Roadsworth who got into some trouble with the city for his artwork (I believe he was sentenced to community service which had him ironically doing artwork around the city). He was written about in the Spacing magazine last year: http://spacing.ca/art-roadsworth.htm
Yeah exaclty, thanks! :)
it's actually a "legit" art installation. here's more...http://www.dare-dare.org/frameseten.htm
(not that I have issues with non-legit public works mind you.)
Aha! I found out whose doing this.
It's Dare Dare, an art collective orerating out of the Park With No Name in Mile End.
It is a project by Franck Bragigand who works with public space, street furniture, kids parks, neighborhood houses, subways, etc. You can find out more on DARE-DARE's web site
http://www.dare-dare.org or at http://www.insitugallery.be/artists/Bragigand/bragigand.html
I remember some people use to do stuff around the city but actually I can't figure what was their name... There's one at the corner of Mont-Royal and Jeanne-Mance. (not talking about a manhole but ground painting *nice ground painting*)
Comment by controleman
July 25, 2007 | 7:26 am