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A bike built by artist Paul Butler as a tribute to Greg Curnoe, a keen cycling artist
http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Paul-Butler-interview-4-2010
Paul Butler: The Greg Curnoe bike project. Curnoe was, in my opinion, an overlooked artist. A pioneer in artist-run culture, Curnoe started CARFAC and an art magazine. He was a nationalist in that he refused to go across the border to seek fame. He’d never call himself an activist but he was.
As a cycling enthusiast, Curnoe used his bike as a theme for much of his art. About five years ago I was talking with the designer Craig Allen Smith, we agreed that the difference between design and art was function so he would design something without function and I would make art with function. A bike— Greg Curnoe’s bike. I was always into bikes growing up, the BMX in particular. I talked to some of Curnoe’s contemporaries and people caught on and started sending me names and I got the blessing to go ahead with the project. With Curnoe’s former bike builder we are making three bikes— one for a gallery, one for a collector and one for me. In addition, I’ll be running a research exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) looking at Curnoe’s research diaries and journals on artist-run culture from 35 years ago and what is it now. I’ll use the bike as a vehicle for this project and organize cycling events. A documentary is being made about the whole project.