Robert Burley: Photographic Proof
11 September to 19 October 2009 North Façade

Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north façade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing the demolition by implosion of the Kodak-Pathé plant located at Chalon-sur-Saône in France....

Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010 Octagonal Gallery

talian photographer Guido Guidi captures notions of time, space, and light in the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece.

The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features, Guidi invites the viewer to look beyond the whole. “In essence, I considered Scarpa’s architecture not only as a manufactured object, but also as a machine through which to look at time. Or rather, architecture in its ‘becoming,’ as shadows on a wall that recall volumetric projections drawn in countless mutations on a sheet of paper,” he explains.