A public art set up by Douglas Coupland in Toronto was destoryed by a hearth final week, in what native police are calling arson.
Coupland’s piece was an homage to one in all Canada’s most well-known painters, Tom Thomson, whose landscapes seize north Ontario and have nationalist overtones. He was not formally a member of the Group of Seven artwork motion, however he was shut with its members.
The Coupland art work, Tom Thomson’s Canoe (2008), took the type of a pink boat and alluded to Thomson’s untimely dying at 39 in 1917 throughout a canoeing accident.
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On April 2, round 2 a.m., cops had been referred to as to a hearth at Canoe Touchdown Park. After they arrived on the scene, the piece had already been “engulfed in flames and, sadly, was destroyed,” in keeping with a Toronto police report that was posted on social media.
Coupland’s now-lost set up was a civic landmark. Following the hearth, solely its metal framework stays.
“In the intervening time, we all know it was arson, however we don’t know its motive. Artwork is at all times a lightning rod. Was it political? Who’s to say,” Coupland informed the Art Newspaper. “Very shut by, there’s my Monument to the Battle of 1812, which I did in 2008. An English soldier standing above a toppled US soldier. Perhaps that’s subsequent?”
Coupland, who can be a author and a designer, is usually credited with popularizing the phrases “Technology X” and “McJob.” His art work takes the type of work, monumental sculptures, installations, and textual content.
