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An online art exhibition at www.marielugli.com/viaduct.htm explores the Bloor Street Viaduct

The Bloor Street Viaduct, an engineering triumph over Toronto's Don Valley, will be 90 years old in September 2008. Rising 40 metres above ground, the Viaduct crosses the Don river, two sets of railroad tracks, a bicycle path, the DVP and Bayview Avenue - in total 10 lanes of highway. Linking Bloor Street to Danforth Avenue, the Viaduct also carries TTC subway trains on its lower deck. An inspiration to writers, musicians, artists, and sightseers, the Viaduct carries stories of tragedy as a "suicide magnate" and of rescue with its new "luminous veil" - the suicide barrier that will be 5 years old in May 2003.

After spending a year photo-documenting the Viaduct and researching its history, local artist Marie Lugli presents this online art exhibition. The art responds to the bridge as a metaphor for the union of opposites, interprets the luminous veil as a life-affirming structure, designed as a deterrent to suicide but also as an aesthetic field of reflection, and plays with fact over fiction.

The artist thanks the Ontario Arts Council for an Emerging Artist Grant that helped fund this project.

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For more information contact: Marie Lugli
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Email: marielugli@hotmail.com

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