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Succession II
Title
Succession II
Artist
Gallant, Illarion
Date
2022
Medium
aluminum
Type
sculpture
Dimensions
548.64cm height x 365.76cm width x 182.88cm depth
Owner
Ledingham McAllister
Accession Number
NA
Location
7121 14th Ave Burnaby, BC V3N 1Z3
Category
Private Development Public Art
Collection
Public Art
Lat/Long
49.212659,-122.951027
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Succession II is part of a comprehensive body of work the artist has been work on over 30 years. Citing a love of landscape, the artist’s professional skills as a Landscape Architect play an important role in the forms he creates. Succession II, commissioned as an entryway feature for a residential building, alludes to both the build forms of the walkways and the larger environment of the surrounding landscape, including a dry stream bed that was inspired by the nearby Byrne Creek. Succession II is named for the biological phenomenon of the successive evolution of plant habitats within an ecologically disturbed site to create a stable productive community.
Rusnak Gallant principal Illarion Gallant has been a practicing professional artist since 1988. He has successfully completed many large scale, site specific, outdoor urban sculpture pieces. The work, highly symbolic, references the connectivity between evolution and the interaction of urban fabric, contemporary landscape and the human passage through the resultant synthesis. Gallant’s work is in Toronto, Calgary and Victoria. The defining moment of Illarion’s pursuit of large scale work was in 1984, when he participated in the Lindabrunn Stone Symposium in Lindabrunn Austria. Lindabrunn was establishing itself as a cross cultural symposium event through the invitation of influential international land artists from countries behind what were then “The Iron Curtain”, Germany, Austria, Japan, Canada and The United States. Participation in the symposium was Gallant’s seminal moment where he was enlightened by the divergent possibilities of entwining sculpture in concert with the landscape. In the context of landscape, Gallant prefers the contradictory textures of materials to create his hardscape palette. His juxtaposition of natural rock, dressed stone and concrete create a visual strength of mass, line and texture which establishes the required visual authority against which the softness of the planted landscape riots gently with equal force.