Controversial recycling art removed from display in Saskatoon
Posted Apr 30, 2014 11:37:33 PM.
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SASKATOON – A controversial piece of art has been removed from public display in Saskatoon.
The art installation resembling two cellophane-wrapped bales of recycling was removed Wednesday from the corner of 33rd Street and Avenue C.
Critics of the piece referred to it as a piece of garbage and an eyesore.
Artist Keeley Hafner says she’s OK with her work, called “Found Compressions One and Two,” being removed.
She says it realized its full potential “in terms of generating dialogue.”
She says it’s time to make way for other public art installations.
The city has also removed a fiberglass sculpture of eight life-sized wolves called INFRA from its location at a downtown skating rink.
INFRA, by Toronto artist Tonya Hart, was originally installed November 2013.
Both installations were placed within the city as part of the Placemaker Program, which aims to promote contemporary arts in a public space, by leasing artworks from the artist.
(CKOM)
