{"id":4531,"date":"2025-03-29T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/attrait\/la-porte-de-lavenir\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:57:41","slug":"la-porte-de-lavenir","status":"publish","type":"attraction","link":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/attrait\/la-porte-de-lavenir\/","title":{"rendered":"La porte de l\u2019avenir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This sculpture depicts a rainbow held up by smiling children \u2013 a boy and a girl \u2013 with arms stretched skyward.<\/p>\n\n<p>It provides a good representation of Roger Langevin\u2019s artwork, which is figurative and focuses on human beings. In his words, \u201cAdded to the humanist dimension of my work is an environmental concern, in other words, sculpture based on quality of life. I seek a balance between today\u2019s deeply distraught world and the fact that my characters evolve in a sort of ideal society.\u201d (free translation) Source: Fisette, Serge,\u00a0<em>Roger Langevin : glossaire d\u2019un sculpteur<\/em>, Espace sculpture, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1988, p. 17.<\/p>\n\n<p>Three other examples identical to this work exist in Montreal, Candiac and Ch\u00e2teauguay.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bibliography<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>rogerlangevin.com\/parcours\/<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>artpublic.ville.montreal.qc.ca\/oeuvre\/la-porte-de-lavenir\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Factsheet of the work<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two columns with four children under a rainbow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coloured concrete \u2013 fibreglass rainbow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>79&#8243; x 14.5&#8243; x 55&#8243;\u2019 \u2013 column 39&#8243;H<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Year: 2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3580,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"attraction-category":[42],"class_list":["post-4531","attraction","type-attraction","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","attraction-category-public-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attraction\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attraction"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attraction"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attraction\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attraction\/4531\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"attraction-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attraction-category?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}