The Temple by Hubert Dalwood, ArtworxTO, High Park, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON
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The Temple by Hubert Dalwood, High Park: This is The Temple by British sculptor Hubert Dalwood, one of seven remaining works completed in 1967 at the International Sculpture Symposium in High Park for Canada's centennial. It is set in a grove of trees, near the forest edge, near a tall catalpa tree.
This is unlike any temple we have seen, but it nevertheless instills in us a desire to enter, to find the inner sanctum. The three meter tall pipes, arranged in a nine by six grid, are slightly misaligned so they appear as a cluster, not in orderly rows. It is possible, if you are a certain size, to slip between them, but notice that while you might enter one row you cannot proceed further, you are allowed in, but only so far, the interior holds its secrets. As you step back, notice the tubes seem slightly rippled. Dalwood was experimenting with the human form, reducing it to its barest essentials. Is this a group of people?
Hubert Dalwood was a leading British sculptor active in the mid-twentieth century. Dalwood's sculptures were mainly of figures often warped and disfigured to suit his intentions but later shifted from figurative subjects, turning to abstract forms, eventually removing all allusions to the human form that remained. His work was exhibited at the 1962 Venice Biennale.
The Temple by Hubert Dalwood, ArtworxTO, High Park, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON
Excerpt from webapp.driftscape.com/map/673f2b0e-eaa7-11eb-8000-bc1c5a8...:
The Temple by Hubert Dalwood, High Park: This is The Temple by British sculptor Hubert Dalwood, one of seven remaining works completed in 1967 at the International Sculpture Symposium in High Park for Canada's centennial. It is set in a grove of trees, near the forest edge, near a tall catalpa tree.
This is unlike any temple we have seen, but it nevertheless instills in us a desire to enter, to find the inner sanctum. The three meter tall pipes, arranged in a nine by six grid, are slightly misaligned so they appear as a cluster, not in orderly rows. It is possible, if you are a certain size, to slip between them, but notice that while you might enter one row you cannot proceed further, you are allowed in, but only so far, the interior holds its secrets. As you step back, notice the tubes seem slightly rippled. Dalwood was experimenting with the human form, reducing it to its barest essentials. Is this a group of people?
Hubert Dalwood was a leading British sculptor active in the mid-twentieth century. Dalwood's sculptures were mainly of figures often warped and disfigured to suit his intentions but later shifted from figurative subjects, turning to abstract forms, eventually removing all allusions to the human form that remained. His work was exhibited at the 1962 Venice Biennale.