38 ~ Wednesday, July 8, 1992 - North Shore News

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New plaza piece
lost in translation

From page 25

As regards the gargantuan
trumpet projecting from the plaza
over the esplanade, it is difficult
not to be positively predisposed to
it. Althougn it is hardly the most
finely crafted assemblage of found
and fabricated forms, it does
possess, both in its roughness and
in its celebration of local legend, a
certain naive charm.

Uniortunately, it is difficult to be
as generous with respect to the
massive sculpture that dominates
the plaza itself.

Even as a mere maquette ten-
tatively entitled “Woman with a
Harp,” it bore too great a
resemblance to the kind of sen-
timental schlock one would expect
to-discover in a cheap European
tourist shop to be worthy of
serious consideration as a work of
art, Although the schmatlz was re-
tained in its new title (North Shore
Rhapsody), most of the sublime
rapture that must have charmed
the selection committee was lost
in the transiation from working
model to finished sculpture.

What we are left with is a great
hulking monstrosity whose
agonized head, chest and
shoulders are so grossly distorted
that the impression conveyed is
more that of a hunchback with a
thyroid condition than a seductive
enchantress.

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and concrete, ils suriace textures
hint at macrame or papies-mache.
Encrusted on the herp, perhaps in
an effort to link the sudject to the
North Shore, are a half-dozen in-
set panels bearing images for the
most part too obscure visually
even to decipher, much less
ascribe a historical significance to.

On the whole, the piece has a
medieval or Byzantine appearance
that says more of the eastern
European sensibility than it does of
North American culture in the late
20th century.

The rea! surprise is that no one.

on the selection committee seems.

to have been cognizant of any of
this. :

What went wrong here? Who, if.
anyone, was reaily in control?
What, in fact, were the qualifica-
tions of those invested with the
power to make decisions? Who
were their advisors? Why did the
utterances of Arts Commission's
pet publications smack of lip-ser-
vice and empty praise rather than
honest evaluation?

What we fave witnessed in this
experiment is nothing less than the.
“execution of art’ by bureau-
cratic decree. The general con-.
sensus among those of informed.”.
opinion is that North Shore Rhap-
sody is at best an esthetic embar

‘-fassment we would do well to’

learn from before we ry to ignore
or forget it it.

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DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER —

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