"Located near Toronto's downtown lakeshore, Love Park brings literal heart to public space. Like much of the late Montreal landscape architect's work, among which were many gifts to Toronto, Claude Cormiers Love Park is both heartfelt and cheeky. This is the same genius who created a fountain replete with sculptures of dogs and cats, who fashioned a pink-umbrella-ed beach next to an industrial sugar factory and so much more!"
"Cormier brought a distinctly queer sensibility to landscape and urban design and one of my other absolute favourite works by his studio is 18 Shades of Gay, which canopied Sainte-Catherine Street in Montreal's Gay Village with a rainbow of balloons. Sadly, the work has since been taken down, but anyone who walked under its multi-hued glow will tell you that the joy it inspired is timeless."
Love Park by CCxA sits near Toronto's downtown lakeshore and introduces a literal heart as a focal point of public space. The park reflects Claude Cormier's playful and cheeky design approach, recalling projects like a fountain populated with dog and cat sculptures and a pink-umbrella beach beside an industrial sugar factory. Cormier's work carries a distinctly queer sensibility, exemplified by 18 Shades of Gay, a rainbow balloon canopy that once animated Montreal's Gay Village. Jeff Wall: Photographs 1984–2023 at MOCA features circular light-boxes and massive staged prints that create uncanny, cinematic narratives and blur documentary and choreography.
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