27/11/2013
The non-profit corporation Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal (MIM) was created in 1998 to launch the first-ever Mosaïcultures Internationales® in the Parc des Éclusiers (Old Port of Montréal), in association with the city’s Parks, Gardens and Green Spaces Department. Its mission is to promote gardening and horticulture as both an expression of new millennium values and a vital component of the urban landscape. MIM has represented Montréal at Mosaïcultures Internationales® Shanghai (2006) and Hamamatsu (2009), winning both the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award at both events. MIM will represent Montréal at the 9th China (Beijing) International Garden Expo in spring 2013.
A SHORT HISTORY:
2000 – Montréal 2000 world premiere
Theme: The Planet is a Mosaic
Participants: 35 cities and organizations from 14 countries
Visitors: 730,000 (110 days)
2003 – Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2003
Theme: Myths and Legends of the World
Participants: 51 cities and organizations from 32 countries
Visitors: 755,000 (110 days)
2006 – Mosaïcultures Internationales Shanghai 2006
Theme: The Earth, Our Village
Participants: 55 cities and organizations from 15 countries
Visitors: over 1,000,000 (76 days)
2009 – Mosaïcultures Internationales Hamamatsu 2009
Under the honorary presidency of Prince Akishino
Theme: The Symphony of People and Nature
Participants: 97 cities and organizations from 25 countries
Visitors: 865,000 (66 days)
About mosaiculture:
Mosaiculture is a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials). The colourful two- and three-dimensional drawings, designs, sculptures and reliefs thus created employ a wide variety of flora. This multifaceted and complex discipline, an ornamental art, draws on numerous practices: on sculpture for its structure and volume, on painting for its palette, and on horticulture in its use of plants in a living, constantly changing environment. Mosaiculture should be distinguished from topiary, which features mostly shrubs pruned to create different shapes.
Source : http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/
Contributing Editor : Paolo Demel