Robert Hengeveld
Toronto, Ontario
A garbage receptacle, familiar and quite easily overlooked, is centre to this all but ordinary sight.
What appears to be just another piece of street furniture is in fact something quite fantastical. Within
the container is a miniature and fully animated concert stage. The strange melodic sound that pounds
from within the container is the first hint of something extraordinarily mysterious. Upon closer investigation
one becomes aware of the smoke belching out of the container. Peering inside reveals all the grandeur
of the concert experience, albeit a doll house version. This project both reflects, and exists within,
the city; an urban landscape where the strange is only too familiar, and where the abnormal is in fact
the norm. It brings together two distinctive worlds, that of the extremely familiar (the furniture of
the city) and the fantastically bizarre (the spectacle of the concert event). The project has evolved
from the recent work 'Staging the Gap' which explores the intricate relationship between the audio and
visual experience, as found within the concert event. More information on this and other works is available
at www.indexproject.com/robert.
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Robert Hengeveld, Staging the Gap; detail, 2007, Multi media
photography: Natalie Logan
Stock Extravaganza, 2008
Visual Art, Multimedia Installation
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A14 65 Dundas Street West (at Bay Street)
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