Analysis Of Bill Pechet Emptyful

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Bill Pechet’s artwork titled Emptyful depicts the essence of life in Winnipeg; the complexion of nature and its relationship with the quality of life perceived by the locals. The public art was completed in August 15th, 2012. It is located in the Millennium Library Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Pechet who is also an architect designed and constructed Emptyful as part of the project by the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada and the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art Program. The piece is over 10 meters high and could be viewed in all angles (Winnipegarts.ca). Moreover, the context and design of the back and front sides of the artwork is identical to one another. Its medium is stainless steel, water, lights, fog and the weather. This public art …show more content…

This abstraction was observed by Pechet at a young age as his father first settled in the city. Pechet states “When I saw the place for myself, I could sense, through space and people, an old soul of a city, where even, within its apparent areas of vacancy, a fully robust culture was humming away…a place where people are thinking deeply about their city, through art and culture” (Winnipegarts.ca). The intent of Emptyful is to capture such quality of life in Winnipeg; the motion of the people and the environment. The artist states “This gave birth to the idea that perhaps a piece of art could express this notion of a simultaneous empty and full environment where event comes and goes…. with as much force as weather itself” (Winnipegarts.ca). Pechet used the idea of space to resonate the emptiness of the city. Solid outlines support the structure of the city, but it also suggests the significance of who creates such structure. In addition, contrasting textures dominate the entirety of the artwork to identify the elements that create the integrity of the …show more content…

As I walked closer to the artwork, the entirety of the artwork’s shape disappeared; leaving me with nothing but uncertainty of the space. Such space resonates with the vast land of the city in which wind flows through at ease, similar to the transparent ease of the artwork. Though, the emptiness is soon filled with the environment; everything on the other side; the woman walking her dog and the police walking on the sidewalk. Such events occur in the city in a daily basis that follows a cycle in which it comes and goes. The hollow space of the artwork resonates the emptiness of the city; defined by the simplicity of life in Winnipeg. Though, the transparency of the space; being hollow, reminds us the occurrences that comes and goes throughout the city; that the empty is and had always been

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