The Dome Project, Exploring a Remnant of the Modernist Era
Exhibition of Robert Duchesnay at the Galerie P.R.I.M. (Montreal) September 17 to October 8, 1986. Multimedia installation including found objects, large rubbings, photographs and the 1985 video interview with Shoji Sadao.
Advertisement published in the November 1986 (issue 44) of the fine art magazine Parachute.
Photographs of the exhibition
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- 01_Dome Project, Galerie P.R.I.M., 1986
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- 02_Dome Project, Galerie P.R.I.M., 1986
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- 03_Dome Project, Galerie P.R.I.M., 1986
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- 04_Dome Project, Galerie P.R.I.M., 1986
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- 05_Dome Project, Galerie P.R.I.M., 1986
Photographs of the project
01_Eastern mechanical plenum (for ventilation) under the Fuller-Sadao dome perimeter. The concrete columns support the massive dome sphere.
02_Eastern mechanical plenum
03_Emergency exit for the eastern mechanical plenum
04_Large Fuller portrait, acrylic on canvas, installed in one of the burned-out offices
05_Burned-out office area
06_Steel housing with air intake control louvers
07_Air exhaust grill protecting the internal ventilation blades
08_Left over surplus geodesic hubs and struts used for repairs found in a storage room
09_Close up of a geodesic steel hub
10_Giant external turbine used for ventilation
11_Emergency exit for the eastern mechanical plenum
12_Wide-angle view of the interior revealing the major exhibition platforms and the escalator framework
13_Main entrance to the 200-seat movie theatre
14_Steel cables used to suspend the exhibition modules from the apex of the dome
15_Main exit door frames
16_Eastern stair tower
17_Main elevator circuit board on top of the northern stair tower
18_Mid-level Apollo Space Program exhibition platform
19_Attempting to climb the geodesic membrane
20_Walking on the top-level platform
21_Close up view of the geodesic membrane
22_Exterior view of the Montreal geodesic dome also named Biosphere