LOLA art on display
It was a cool rainy morning
when I first met up with Paul
Walde, the artistic director for
LOLA Festival 2008. He looked at
the abandoned building in front of
us on 123 Queen St., hoping that
the rain would cease and he would
be able to successfully install the
last four panels of an eighteenpanel
art piece by Toronto artists
Roman Tkaczyk and David
Poolman.
The piece is called Metalheads and Pitbulls.
“In this case we wanted to deal with the subject of rock music and rock culture,” Walde said about the angry and raw art display.
“Then I started to look for artists working with that subject matter… We chose the works by those artists that best suited the show.”
Visual art is one of the main attractions of LOLA Fest 2008 and there will be oodles to see around London, which started last Thursday. The art, by various London and out of town artists, have been placed in high visibility locations around the downtown core.
“We work with building owners that wanted to work with us,” Walde explained. Some artists even created the works specifically for LOLA.
London artist David Merritt will have his art in three different locations as a video projection that is rear screened onto the window of a building.
“Because it's a time based piece and it's quite long, you probably won't see the same part of the piece, so it gives the viewer more of a chance to experience the work itself,” Walde said.
As well as art pieces and video projections, LOLA Fest is displayed in forty-five light box installations in core media Pattison boxes all around downtown London, with another six billboards on York St. Unfortunately, the remnants of hurricane Ike that ripped through London last Sunday and destroyed two of the billboards for LOLA in the process, are now nowhere to be found.
“I'm hoping [the weather] is going to improve, it can't be worse than anything we've had in the last forty-eight hours…We look forward to having all the work back up by Thursday,” Walde said.
LOLA Fest ran from Thursday, September 18 until Sunday, September 21. All locations and artists are listed online, for more information about the third consecutive London Ontario Arts Festival visit www.lolafest.com.
The piece is called Metalheads and Pitbulls.
“In this case we wanted to deal with the subject of rock music and rock culture,” Walde said about the angry and raw art display.
“Then I started to look for artists working with that subject matter… We chose the works by those artists that best suited the show.”
Visual art is one of the main attractions of LOLA Fest 2008 and there will be oodles to see around London, which started last Thursday. The art, by various London and out of town artists, have been placed in high visibility locations around the downtown core.
“We work with building owners that wanted to work with us,” Walde explained. Some artists even created the works specifically for LOLA.
London artist David Merritt will have his art in three different locations as a video projection that is rear screened onto the window of a building.
“Because it's a time based piece and it's quite long, you probably won't see the same part of the piece, so it gives the viewer more of a chance to experience the work itself,” Walde said.
As well as art pieces and video projections, LOLA Fest is displayed in forty-five light box installations in core media Pattison boxes all around downtown London, with another six billboards on York St. Unfortunately, the remnants of hurricane Ike that ripped through London last Sunday and destroyed two of the billboards for LOLA in the process, are now nowhere to be found.
“I'm hoping [the weather] is going to improve, it can't be worse than anything we've had in the last forty-eight hours…We look forward to having all the work back up by Thursday,” Walde said.
LOLA Fest ran from Thursday, September 18 until Sunday, September 21. All locations and artists are listed online, for more information about the third consecutive London Ontario Arts Festival visit www.lolafest.com.
