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Archive for June, 2009
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The Venice Biennale Cafeteria Gets the Golden Lion Award
Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Tobias Rehberger received the prize for the cafeteria, for which he collaborated closely with Artek using customized Artek furniture in an ingenious way. The cafeteria ...
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Emily Carr painting goes for over 2 million at Vancouver auction
One of the three paintings to be sold for over the one-million mark, Emily Carr‘s Wind in The Tree, circa 1939, went for a record $2,164,5000 on Heffel’s auction last night (June 17) at Vancouver Convention Centre. David Heffel, on the auction brochure: “I think ...
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The Canadian Pavilion at Venice Biennale
I am not sure if it’s true for every one of the sixty national pavilions throughout Venice, but Canadian Pavilion represents a lot of this country’s qualities, its love and respect for nature, its clean and transparent organization. The beautiful glass and brick structure was ...
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Subdivisions
New York artist Ross Racine creates aerial views of fictional suburbs, examining the relation between design and actual lived experience. No photographs or scanned images are used in the pieces above. Each was drawn freehand directly on the computer and then printed on an inkjet ...
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Vancouver Art in the 60s
Gary Lee-Nova, Dreadnaught, 1966, acrylic, 154×182 cm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is launching a new website: Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties, an online resource and digital archive incorporating hundreds of photographs, press clippings, audio recordings and film clips. Drawn ...
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Chuck Close – Tapestries
Self-Portrait/Color, 2007 jacquard tapestry, 103″ x 79″ Isn’t it wild to apply an ancient technique as jacquard tapestry to contemporary arts? Chuck Close didn’t have to abandon his computerized images, portraits and self portraits: he simply translated them in gorgeous large wall tapestries. Portraying himself ...