Seven bridges in and around Calgary's core will be splashed with new colours over the next couple weeks as a new series of banners is installed. The series will showcase the work of Canadian artist Dianne Bos ('78) and celebrates the theme of “place”.The new banners are part of the Down town Banner Program that began in 2008. Banners are now replaced biannually with a new look and story to welcome people to the downtown.
For this series of banner images, Dianne used black and white film and a medium format camera to create overlapping sequential images of the Alberta landscape. These were later converted to vibrant colours using digital techniques.
The many ways ‘place’ can be defined and imagined is a significant theme in Dianne’s art work. The structural format of these works relates strongly to the Technopaegnia (concrete poetry) works of Banff poet Jon Whyte, where clusters of words form images related to Rocky Mountain landscapes.
New banners have already been installed on the Macdonald and Inglewood bridges. The remaining bridges will have banners installed over the next few weeks. These bridges include 14 Street Bridge, Louise Bridge (10 Street), Centre Street Bridge, Langevin Bridge (Edmonton Trail) and the Zoo Bridge.
Dianne Bos was born in Hamilton, Ontario, received her B.F.A. from Mount Allison, and currently divides her time between the foothills of the Rockies and the Pyrénées.
For the full story: New banners installed on the seven gateway bridges to Calgary's downtown (Calgary Beacon)
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