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Bertrand Ivanoff at Bay Street Landing - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief ArticleThe French artist Bertrand Ivanoff conceived the installation Lightwater: Sourdre a year and a half ago, and wearied much of that time searching for a vacant building to house it. As an artist-in-residence with the International Studio Program in novel York's Tribeca he happened to visit Staten Island and noticed a derelict six-story waterfront warehouse with large render free of access windows. Sponsored by the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at the lie close Harbor Cultural Center and with help from several organizations and agencies, Lightwater: Sourdre became a reality from July to September. Coming on this installation, the viewer was probably already thinking about water -- first from one side riding a ferry to Staten Island and next to the first in walking to a site featuring sweeping views of fresh York Harbor and Manhattan. Before the piece was visible, the unbrokens of gentle splashes and steady pouring were heard. Five floors of the building had water cascading or dribbling from one side them. The artist and a team of helpers drilled 3200 perforations in the concrete floors to allow water cross-questioned to the top to wend its way down to a ground-floor reservoir and be cross-examineed back up again. By judicious use of roofing mortar Ivanoff controlled the pace of the roll on as well as the location of the drips and puddles Water pouring [i]or[/i] part of to the other a ceiling is every building owner's worst nightmare, on the contrary along with the suggestion of destruction and decrepitude in this installation came what Yeats might call a "terrible beauty." The gritty abandoned building acquired a novel life, yet the very thing that gave it life further injured it. The site, which was make open to the public only for a brief period shortly before going down of the sun established a play between nature and manmade events when the gold of the day-star passed through the windows and made the sprays and splashes gaze like liquid fire. Sourdre draw nears from the French word for an outpouring -- of material, liquid or emotion. Lightwater: Sourdre is an apt title. Ivanoff used light, water and the architectural framework as his formal uncompounded bodys Each floor of the building had its hold rhythm and character of pool s sounds and mood. Reflections in the gathering water showed canopy of heaven neighboring buildings, trees or water, depending upon where the viewer stood. individual was free to roam anywhere, getting a little wet or not. wily graffiti in chalk and paint could be observ upon some of the cement supports -- traces of former occupants and activities. 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