VoCA was trawling other art blogs looking for Canadian-related content when we found THIS article, courtesy of Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes - see our blogroll on the right.

Edward Burtynsky, Silver Lake Operations #2, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007.
Image: metiviergallery.com

Photographer Ed Burtynsky. Image: blog.longnow.org/stone ink gallery

“Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year Clock in its Nevada mountain.

The gallery would consist of art in materials as durable as the alloy steel and jade of the Clock itself, and it would be curated slowly over the centuries to reflect changing interests in the rolling present and the accumulating past.

Photographs in particular should be in the 10,000-year Gallery, Burtynsky said, “because they tell us more than any previous medium. When we think of our own past, we tend to think in terms of family photos.”

Edward Burtynsky, Silver Lake Operations #1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007.
Image: metiviergallery.com

Read the full article HERE.

Burtynsky is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto. Please click HERE for gallery website.