Lightfoot Bust-HAMILTON, Ont.
 

Just stumbles across this

http://www.ginocavicchioli.com/sculp...lightfoot.html

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He's a very talented fellow. All of his work is quite amazing.
I'm still not sure I like the Lightfoot piece tho. Could be more of an emotional thing however.

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Wow, that's almost eerie! but in a cool sort of way!!
I'll have to browse his site when I have more time...
Thanks for posting Doug.

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Who is that girl in image7?

That is pretty cool. :biggrin:

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Extremely well done, but I agree...as a tribute I'd have done one from "back in the day"...but that's very presumptuous of me...this is a VERY nice piece of work!

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But it does bring to mind...can the public buy mini copies?

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It's a fine piece of craftsmanship.........but the pointy shoulders makes it a little hard to look at. Nah....it doesn't pass my test.

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Gotta get me one of those for sure.

Always said he would go down in history as a great composer.

So the collection will now be:

Bach, Beethoven,

Liszt and Lightfoot.

Can't top that eh?

RJ.

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Gino :kiss:

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you sure can't RJ!!
here's what the artist said when he posted the link at the NG:

I finished Mr. Lightfoot’s portrait bust last week.
He sat for me last fall in my Hamilton Ontario studio.
It has been a great pleasure for me to serve and honour this man's
life and work with my art.
You are all most welcome to see the portrait sculpture photos on my
web site below,
http://www.ginocavicchioli.com/sculp...lightfoot.html

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wow, i was going to ask if he had permission to sell these commercially and what photo he had used (must be hard to do from a photo, anyhow obviously it was endorsed!

yea, great post, rj...i'm glad has lived longer than most composers:)

now we just need to contact Madame Toussauds (sp?)

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I like it.Very Nice piece of work!Thanks for posting this.
patybear

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maybe a clue from a song ?

"I met one up in Shanghai
And another in Rangoon"

Bill :)

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I replied to Gino at hi spost at the NG and rec'd this reply:

Beautiful!
All of your work is amazing Gino. What was it like to have him sit for
you like that?

Thanks for asking
I dream come true Char, I thought I had died and gone to Heaven. I get
lots of important folks in my studio, but Mr. Lightfoot I have
personally 'loved since a young age. To top it off Char, he asked me
what other musicians I love, I mentioned Leonard Cohen name, he agreed
and started singing some of Cohens songs to me...I nearly had a
stroke :-)

Take great care my new friend,

G

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this thread just keeps getting better...i wish i had been there ( a free offer for sure) to do a time lapse video recording of the session...with an audio recording running as well of course

i never saw there were more sculptures to click on til now and am having a good go at trying to name all the CFL hall of famers based on face and filename...it's tough...Flutie, Dunnigan, Pinball..then it gets tougher, Lui Passaglia(?) etc etc...

so char, again, who is the gal kissing Gord? Gino's girlfriend?

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i'll ask Gino!
probably his wife..
lol

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more from Gino:
G
Was this work commissioned by Gordon for his own personal
collection ?
Perhaps you would rather not, or cannot answer, so I'd understand
about the possible privacy issue.
It must have been amazing to hear Cohen lyrics being sung by
Lightfoot. Cohen is another of my favourite artists. Lightfoot once
sang some Everley Brothers lyrics for me several years ago..that was
quite something!
You were born in Australia (one of two places I'd love to visit - the
other being Italy to visit my paternal grandparents birthplace) but
moved to Rome as a youngster? When did you first discover Lightfoot
music and when did you move to Canada/Hamilton?
It's quite the life story you have so far..
Char
Gino - who is the model in one of the pics of the Lightfoot bust?
Char
Good morning Char.
90% of my sculpture work is by commission.
About 10% of my studio work is self chosen :-)
This 10% is where I invite folks that I personally admire and fancy to
sit for me.
I invited Mr. Lightfoot to sit for me last summer. His busy schedule
kept him from doing so, until late fall.
To hear Gordon sing in my studio was an out of this world experience.
But for one of my favorite (Lightfoot) to sing one of my favorite
(Leonard Cohen)
Was nothing short then a religious experience.
I came to Canada in 1968. It was during this first year that I
discovered wonderful Lightfoot.
This fall I will invite Mr. Cohen to sit for me in 2010
Take care Char,
Gino
The model is my beautiful wife
Gino

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Wow, that is cool. The bust is amazing. I love it!

The second thing that is amazing, is the conversation between Char and Gino. How wonderful!

Thanks for making my day!

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Gino seems so open and nice. How cool is that that Gord was one of the 10% that he invited to sit for him?

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Another interesting thing on Gino's website is a link on his home page to a video on
http://tsn.ca
"Canada's Sport Leader" at:-
http://watch.tsn.ca/clip16861#clip16861
the site is run by
CTVglobemedia Inc which is Canada's premier multimedia company with ownership of CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, and The Globe and Mail, Canada’s #1 national newspaper. CTV Inc. owns and operates 27 conventional stations across the country, with interests in 32 specialty channels, including Canada’s #1 specialty channel, TSN. CTVglobemedia also owns the CHUM Radio Division, which operates 34 radio stations throughout Canada, including CHUM FM, Canada’s # 1 FM station. Other CTVglobemedia investments include an interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., which owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and the Air Canada Centre; and an interest in Dome Productions, a North American leader in the provision of mobile high definition production facilities.

In the video Gino describes how he forms a bust and you also must install a Microsoft video feature I was previously unaware of
silverlight
After Gino's video you naturally get a chance to watch some Canadian sports Ice Hockey and Curling

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what, no ice fishing?

I couldnt get the things to play even with Silverlight (i'm sure that download came with a worm of some sort)...but the 30 second commercial beforehand played perfectly, of course

I never realized how HUGE some of those busts are (and they're all natural too)....the one of Linc Alexander must be 400% scale...there's a pic of the lovely wife kissing Linc's also..it must be a tradition:kiss:

nice pic of Gino...

Cool sculpture tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
 

Just came across this: http://ginocavicchioli.com/sculpture...lightfoot.html
(apologies if this is already posted)

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Hi bjb,

Good to hear from you again. Thanks for posting. Regards to your Dad.

Bill :)

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Here's more about the sculpture:
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...sculpture+gino

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http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/552613

article in Hamilton paper.

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hmm, i see he was born in Melbourne! small world!

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well I guess we all have to be born somewhere..
;)

Orillia Packet - Lightfoot Lightfoot -- or bust
 

http://www.orilliapacket.com/Article...aspx?e=1538181

Lightfoot Lightfoot -- or bust
ARTS AND CULTURE: What a relief for hometown hero
Posted By IAN SHELTON, SPECIAL TO THE PACKET AND TIMES
Posted 3 hours ago


Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the stories he sang about. But the Hamilton artist who sculpted Lightfoot says that in his face you can read the stories of the troubadour's own life.

"Faces are like road maps that tell about a person's victories and defeats," Gino Cavicchioli said yesterday. "His (Lightfoot's) face is extremely expressive. There are so many experiences and stories in there."

For Cavicchioli, a widely commissioned artist who barely finishes one project before starting another, sculpting the Orilliaborn folk hero's bust was more

Submitted photo

Gino Cavicchioli sculpted this 350-pound bust of Orillia's own Gordon Lightfoot.

personal. Each year, he takes time out of his commissioned work to sculpt something that is, as he said, "near and dear" to him.

"Mr. Lightfoot is someone I admired my whole life. He's just an incredible poet."

Though in fact, it was not until Cavicchioli immigrated to Canada as a 13-year-old that he first heard

Lightfoot's music.

Though Born in Australia, Cavicchioli spent his formative years serving mass in a small church 24 kilometres from the Vatican, and was occasionally called up to the big show for special holidays.

He says he spent many of these years in close contact

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here's the rest of the story:
with the works of the great classical

artists, and also soaking up the folk music of Naples, Sicily

and other regions of Italy.

He said one day, his father, who was an engineer, called from a business trip to Burlington and

informed the family that they would be relocating to the southern Ontario town. Cavicchioli said the move was a shock, one that left him struggling in a school where he didn't understand the language. But he also found something he loved in Canada's musicians.

"When I heard Gordon Lightfoot, it was a different sound, a sound I wasn't really familiar with," he said. "But it really was love at first sound."

It was also a comforting sound one afternoon in Tobermory. Having survived a stormy night on Georgian Bay in a boat that had lost power and drifted dangerously close to rocks, Cavicchioli and his friend stepped into a small tavern to eat.

"When we walked in, a folk singer was playing Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

"Being in safety, with the assurance of food and this national anthem playing, I nearly wept."

In September, Cavicchioli contacted Lightfoot's manager. Two months later, the two artists met and Lightfoot sat at Cavicchioli's table to be sculpted.

The result is a bust almost three times life-sized and weighing in at 350 pounds of clay, in addition to steel armature and foam filling.

Cavicchioli is pleased with his work. It is more than a replica of the singer's face, he said. "It has to feel like Gordon. It's got to have his heart and soul."

The artist certainly seems to have succeeded in that. Apart from Lightfoot's own approval, Cavicchioli said he has received praise from fans as far away as Australia.

Negotiations for the sculpture's purchase are ongoing. But wherever it ends up, Cavicchioli said he hopes to see a casting in Orillia one day.

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I don't know about the rest of you but I cannot get enough of seeing this remarkable sculpture
so here is the picture of it in that Orillia Packet article
I noted that "Negotiations for the sculpture's purchase are ongoing"
Susan and I were wondering if anybody would be possibly be able to buy the original
Best of luck with the negotiations Val!!

http://www.orilliapacket.com/Display...kb11.jpg&w=300

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Me neither John, it's really beautiful.

My heart skips a beat each time I view it anew. I cannot imagine how impressive it must be in person.

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Just so you know: I find it "creepy". I don't like it.

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At times I too find it a bit disconcerting to look at..not sure why. Perhaps it's the hair..perhaps it's just an emotional jolt at looking at an image of an aged Lightfoot that is not a photograph..

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I've just never been a fan of this type of art. There's nothing wrong with it, except that 1/2 of the torso has been removed, and the arms and legs amputated.

Just not my cup o' tea.

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Gino seems like a wonderful new friend, char...and full of talent

who could have that in their house (unless you have a Gordian mansion)? that thing is larger than my wood stove and probably weighs more

it does give me the same willies i got, at a tender age, when i first saw a deceased relative in a casket, with what i still remember as a very clay-like face...yeah, they somehow even gave him (the deceased) a nice thick head of hair

i never noticed straps like those before on Gord's black leather jacket

nice story...Tobermory is where i decided to head when Gord got ill (i guess it eventually brought good luck)...i lost my keys swimming in mid Sept on the very chilly Georgian Bay side but the water was so clear I was able to find them the next day, about 100m out...i will not buy swim trunks with pockets again

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maybe it's the missing arms and rest of his body..
I like a man with arms and a body..
;)

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it's always nice when men have all their parts, but...

I still love the bust

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:biggrin:
:redface:
:clap:
;)

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Is that some sort of reference to Jimmy's

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val sent this thru her e-mail list:

Gordon Lightfoot will Attend "L'Aquila is in my heart" Art Exhibition and the unveiling of his bust by Sculptor Gino Cavicchioli

Canadian music icon Gordon Lightfoot will be in Hamilton on September 6th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., at Michelangelo's Banquet & Convention Center, Upper Ottawa St., to support the Hamilton Earthquake Relief Fundraiser organized by the National Congress of Italian Canadians-Hamilton District and Gino Cavicchioli.

The singer/songwriter penned many memorable Canadian classics: "If you Could Read My Mind", "Carefree Highway", "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", "Sundown" and the ever-popular "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" among many others.

This is not a concert stop for Lightfoot; he is attending to support the Hamilton Earthquake Relief and his friend Gino Cavicchioli, will officially unveil the Gordon Lightfoot portrait bust, when asked if he would please sing a song or two, he replied, "I will bring my guitar!"

Valerie Tryon, noted Canadian pianist, is a special guest at this event she will be playing 3 of her favourite musical pieces.

Other special guests are: Charles and Margaret Juravinski, Canadian Football League Stars: Matt Dunigan, John Bonk. Ben Zambiasi, Angelo Mosca, Mark DeNobile, Ex. Dir. Canadian Football Hall of Fame Museum and the Hon. Lincoln M. Alexander.

Gino Cavicchioli has donated twelve original artist's signed A/P prints which will be drawn as door prizes during the event.

The cost of admission is $10 and it includes wine and cheese reception. This event is sponsored by Michelangelo Banquet & Convention Center and the Ciancone family, The Framing Warehouse and Sterling Print Solutions.

Admission is limited to 1000 people. Tickets may be purchased from Miriam Olivieri (905-388-6434), Fabrizio Angelici (905-560-6094), Michelangelo Banquet & Convention Center on Upper Ottawa, Enzo Galano (905-528-0144).