Up Up and Around: Toronto City Hall, 2010

Christian Giroux - Guelph, Canada
Daniel Young - Toronto, Canada

Film Installation

This 35-mm film explores Toronto's iconic City Hall. Designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell and opened in 1965, the architecture stands out for its mid-century futuristic vision. Its two curved towers shape and define an internal volume: the white dome of council chambers. Using the windows that line the two arched towers as framing devices, the artists trace a spiraling arc through the building’s skeleton, deploying the architecture itself as the mechanism to generate the work. New knowledge is revealed about a place that is otherwise familiar to our experience, offering an inside view of a building we mostly see from the outside.

Supported by: Deluxe Labs + Post Production, LIFT & Mike Sharpe Studios

Christian Giroux and Daniel Young have been making art together since 2002. They produce sculpture, public art and film installations. Their work has been shown at Scope Miami Beach (2004), Ace Art Inc (Winnipeg, 2004), the Power Plant (Toronto, 2006), the EXiS festival (Seoul, 2009) and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2009). They have upcoming solo exhibitions at the Muséed'art contemporain de Montréaland the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. They are represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.

Suitable for all ages