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Max Streicher

Max Streicher

Max Streicher is a sculptor and installation artist from Alberta, now residing in Toronto, Canada. Since 1989 he has worked extensively with inflatable technology in kinetic sculptures and installation works. Max Streicher's work was included in the Sixth Beijing International Art Biennial. He has shown widely across Canada in museums and public galleries such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Art Gallery of Alberta. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto and The Power Plant Centre for Contemporary Art. He has completed several site-related projects across Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. Max Streicher was a founding member of NetherMind, a collective of sculptors who, since 1991, have presented exhibitions of their works in conversation with alternative exhibition sites, such as abandoned factories. Streicher served on the Board of Directors of Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art in Toronto from 1992 – 1998. Since 2012, he has served on the Arts and Music Committee of the St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto coordinating site-related exhibitions. In 2007 Streicher was a presenter at Take a Deep Breath, a Symposium hosted by the Tate Modern, London, UK.
Creator Id: 581
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Alberta
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, sculpture
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Work by Max Streicher

Gargoyles

Work ID: 57134

Description: Exhibition title: We will name this place.. Winters Gallery, York University, 1988

Measurements: each gargoyle/chaque: 11 cm

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Breathe

Work ID: 57124

Description: The Crossing exhibition, Bloor St. United Church, coordinated by Mediums Art Centre, Toronto, 1989

Measurements: 185 cm

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Boiler

Work ID: 57123

Description: Nether Mind collective exhibition, 1991

Measurements: 300 cm

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Pillars of Cloud

Work ID: 57144

Description: Nether Mind collective exhibition, 1992

Measurements: 351 cm

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Pillars of Cloud

Work ID: 57145

Description: Nether Mind collective exhitbition, 1992

Measurements: 351 cm

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This flesh

Work ID: 57156

Measurements: projection: 190 x 190 cm

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My dear one

Work ID: 57143

Description: Galerie Articule, Montreal, May, 1993

Measurements: 1m x 3m x 10m

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Boiler

Work ID: 57122

Description: Naked State exhibition, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, 1994

Measurements: 480 cm

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Alchemist’s Tongue: of which my rage is made / of which my fear is made

Work ID: 57116

Description: Naked State exhibition, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, 1994

Measurements: Tongues/langues: 8 to 45 cm high

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Balancing Act (with dragon)

Work ID: 57119

Description: Nether Mind collective exhibition, Toronto, September, 1995

Measurements: figures: 190 cm tall; dragon: 11 meters long, 5 meters high

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Balancing Act

Work ID: 57118

Description: Cambridge Gallery installation, 1998

Measurements: life-size figures: 0.2436 m tall/figure de taille humaine : 0.2436 pi

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Balancing Act

Work ID: 57117

Description: detail from the Tightrope installation, Palmovca Synagogue, Prague, 1996

Measurements: life-size figures/figures à taille humaine: 0.2088 m/pi tall

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Quartet in a Box, [detail]

Work ID: 57158

Description: Pleasure Dome exhibition, Haifa, Israel, 1995

Measurements: figures: 190 cm

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Sextet

Work ID: 57149

Description: Tightrope exhibition, Palmovca Synagogue, Prague, 1996

Measurements: 0.2784 m/pi

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Balancing Act and Sextet

Work ID: 57120

Description: Tightrope exhibition, Palmovca Synagogue, Prague, 1996

Measurements: Sextet figures: 0.2784 m tall, 1996; Balancing Act figures: 0.2088 m tall, 69.426

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Lamentation (Swan Song)

Work ID: 57159

Description: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1996

Measurements: 5 m

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Sleeping Giants [detail]

Work ID: 57154

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 7.5 m

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Sleeping Giants

Work ID: 57153

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 7.5 m

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Endgame (Barrie)

Work ID: 57127

Description: Scotia Bank installation, Barrie, Ontario

Measurements: 6.5 m

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Endgame (Gladstone)

Work ID: 57129

Description: Gladstone hotel installation

Measurements: 6.5 m

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Endgame (Drake)

Work ID: 57128

Description: Drake hotel installation, Toronto, Ontario, 2004

Measurements: 6.5 m

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Hamm & Clov

Work ID: 57135

Description: Gnadenkirche, Hamburg, Germany, 1999

Measurements: 3.5 m diameter/diamètre

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Floating Giants

Work ID: 57131

Description: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation installation, Commissioned by the Canadian Art Foundation

Measurements: 7 m

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Hamm & Clov (Taichung)

Work ID: 57136

Description: The Good Place exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan, 2001

Measurements: 3.5 m diameter/diamètre

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Hamm & Clov (Taichung)

Work ID: 57137

Description: The Good Place exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan, 2001

Measurements: 3.5 m diameter/diamètre

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Floating Giants

Work ID: 57130

Description: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation installation, Commissioned by the Canadian Art Foundation

Measurements: 7 m

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Silenus, [detail]

Work ID: 57150

Description: Ironic Turn exhibition, Mezt, France, 2004

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 8 m

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Silenus

Work ID: 57152

Description: Ironic Turn exhibition, Mezt, France, 2004

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 8 m

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Silenus

Work ID: 57151

Description: Ironic Turn exhibition, Mezt, France, 2004

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 8 m

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Lost Unicorn (pan)

Work ID: 57142

Description: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Ironic Turn exhibition, Erfurt, Germany, 2003

Measurements: 5 x 9 x 2 m

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Lost Unicorn

Work ID: 57141

Description: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Ironic Turn exhibition, Erfurt, Germany, 2003

Measurements: 5 x 9 x 2 m

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Innocents

Work ID: 57139

Description: Il Palazzo Delle Liberta, Palazzo Della Papesse, Siena, 2003

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 4.5 m

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Stuck Unicorn

Work ID: 57160

Description: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 2003

Measurements: unicorn/licorne: 5 x 9 x m

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Four Horses, [detail]

Work ID: 57132

Description: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, 2003

Measurements: each inflatable horse/chaque: 6 x 10.5 x 2.5 meters

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Four Horses, [detail]

Work ID: 57133

Description: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, 2003

Measurements: each inflatable horse: 6 x 10.5 x 2.5 m

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Horses

Work ID: 57138

Description: Beaverbrooke Art Gallery, Fredericton, new Brunswick, 2004

Measurements: each inflatable horse: 6 x 10.5 x 2.5 meters

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Cloud

Work ID: 57125

Description: Tannenbaum Sculpture Atrium, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004

Measurements: 9.75 x 9.75 x 3 m

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Blow

Work ID: 57121

Measurements: each figure/chaque: 2.5 m

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Seated Figures

Work ID: 57148

Description: Quartet installation, Rico/Maresca Gallery, New York, 2004

Measurements: each/chaque figure: 225 cm

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Cloud, [detail]

Work ID: 57126

Description: Tannenbaum Sculpture Atrium, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005

Measurements: 9.75 x 9.75 x 3 m

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