Vancouver EVENT: ART! VANCOUVER 2018 International Art Fair at Canada Place Convention Centre
ART! VANCOUVER 2018 at Canada Place
April 19 – 22, 2018
From the website:
Returning for the 4th year, Art! Vancouver, presented by non-profit organization Vancouver Visual Art Foundation, hosts a first-class international art fair that features the finest artwork from art galleries and artists across Canada and around the globe. Dedicated to raising awareness of the international art scene in Western Canada, Art! Vancouver takes place in an exceptional waterfront venue, featuring reputable galleries and artists from across Canada and around the world.
It’s the perfect west coast setting for those looking to showcase their artwork on an international stage that will attract a diverse market of collectors and professionals. Galleries, dealers, collectors, art aficionados, and art lovers from all over the world will be in attendance.
For four days, April 19 – 22, 2018, Art! Vancouver connects the international arts community under one roof. Here exhibitors can showcase their artworks on a prestigious platform, while exposing attendees to a diverse collection of original art.
Art! Vancouver is the dream of accomplished artist and curator Lisa Wolfin. Building on her artistic and curatorial experience, Wolfin is making it her mission to develop Art! Vancouver into a must-see world-class event.
List of Artists and Exhibitors:
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Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver Bus Art
How far do you travel? TransLink buses Arts! This bus has a Patrick Cruz's Step Mother Tongue. There's lots of other bus arts coming soon! More info here:
Artists: Diyan Achjadi, Patrick Cruz, Rolande Souliere, Erdem Taşdelen, Anna Torma
About the Contemporary Art Gallery
Established in 1971 the Contemporary Art Gallery is the longest standing free public art gallery
in Vancouver dedicated exclusively to presenting contemporary art. By the early 1990s the
program expanded providing some of the first institutional exhibitions for many important
Vancouver artists, including Brian Jungen, Geoffrey Farmer, Germaine Koh and Steven Shearer.
The Contemporary Art Gallery is a publicly funded institution, generously supported by the
Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver and the Province of BC through the BC Arts
Council and the BC Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch.
Vancouver ART SCENE: ART VANCOUVER 2019 Pt. 1 International Art Fair, Canada Place Convention Centre
ART VANCOUVER 2019
International Art Fair
Canada Place Convention Centre
Part 1
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Vancouver ART SCENE: ART VANCOUVER 2019 Pt. 2 International Art Fair, Canada Place Convention Centre
ART VANCOUVER 2019
International Art Fair
Canada Place Convention Centre
Part 2
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LeSoleil Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Overview video of LeSoleil Fine Art one of Vancouver's premiere art galleries featuring a collection of the finest original paintings and sculptures from established modern-day contemporary artists, French impressionist, and 20th century and Old Masters in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Vancouver ART SCENE: GUO PEI: COUTURE BEYOND @ Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 13, 2018 - Jan. 20, 2019
Guo Pei: The Chinese designer behind Rihanna's yellow omelette dress.
GUO PEI: COUTURE BEYOND
Vancouver Art Gallery
Oct. 13, 2018 to Jan. 20, 2019
This video couldn't possibly do justice to the brilliance of Guo Pei's designs. The colours, the textures and the richness of the material!! This is something you have to experience for yourself in person. It's an eye-popper and a crowd pleaser for sure. Come see it at the Vancouver Art Gallery if you get the chance. Bring the kids too! It's on now until January 20, 2019.
From the Vancouver Art Gallery page:
Guo Pei: Couture Beyond is the first Canadian exhibition devoted to the work of Guo Pei, China’s preeminent couturière. This mid-career survey features more than forty complete looks from Guo Pei’s most iconic runways from 2006 to 2017. In her theatrical, extravagant creations, Guo Pei combines contemporary aesthetics, production methods and materials with ancient tradition, evoking Chinese history and mythology in her craft techniques, fabric selection and imagery. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of her evolution as a designer as well as her contribution to global fashion culture.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, an initiative of the Institute of Asian Art, in collaboration with SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film and curated by Diana Freundl, Associate Curator, Asian Art and Stephanie Rebick, Associate Curator
From BBC News:
Chinese dress designer Guo Pei's big break came when a singer she had never heard of, named Rihanna, contacted her about a yellow dress she had seen pictures of.
The pop star wore it to the New York Met Gala - sparking a viral meme as the outfit was compared to an omelette.
But for Guo Pei it led her to Paris Fashion Week and international acclaim.
Born in 1960s communist China, where there was no fashion at all, Guo Pei told the BBC how she took the unthinkable risk of quitting a well-paid job to fulfil her dream of designing and making dresses.
Recorded: Sunday, November 25, 2018
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Sunspots by Jeremy Blake
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Unscrolled - Vancouver Art Gallery
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art
November 15, 2014 to April 6, 2015
Tradition in chinese contemporary art is transformed by individual experiences, contemporary challenges and present-day concerns. Unscrolled features three generations of Chinese artists who have been trained in both Western art history and Chinese tradition and who engage with their cultural past as a continuation into the contemporary. The exhibition moves from literal depictions of traditional culture to more ambiguous representations that are equally influenced by Chinese heritage. From new media forms such as digital animations to site-specific installations, it features work by artists Ai Weiwei, Chen Shaoxiong, Ji Yun Fei, Liu Jianhua, Jennifer Wen Ma, Xu Zhen (produced by MadeIn Company), Qiu Shihua, Sun Xun, Xu Bing and Zhang Enli. Defining tradition as an evolving concept, Unscrolled examines and questions its influence on visual culture in present-day China.
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Galleries CANADA and Jack Hanley at Art Cologne 2014
In this video we have a look at the joint booth of the galleries CANADA and Jack Hanley at Art Cologne 2014, two New York galleries that are both located in Broome Street in Manhattan. We speak with their directors, Philip Grauer (CANADA Gallery) and Jack Hanley (Jack Hanley Gallery), who talk about the advantages of the Collaborations section of Art Cologne 2014, and show us works by the artists Alicia McCarthy, Joe Bradley, and Elena Pankova. After you've watched the video, you know what this has to do with chicken, the ebola virus, and rainbows ;-)
Interview with Philip Grauer (CANADA Gallery) and Jack Hanley (Jack Hanley Gallery) at Art Cologne 2014. April 10, 2014. Video by Frantisek Zachoval.
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Interesting Graffiti Art installation at Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver June 10 2014
Interesting Graffiti Art installation at Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver June 10 2014
Geoff from documents the exterior art installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver on June 10th 2014.
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Stefan Brüggemann -- Headlines and Last Lines in the Movies
13 Jun, 2014 to 07 Sep, 2014
Headlines & Last Lines in the Movies transforms the façade of the Contemporary Art Gallery, wooden cladding covering its frontage and south east corner. Resembling a construction site, the structure becomes the ground for the work; the title a precise description of itself.
In this new mural, Brüggemann writes headlines from current newspapers, from local to global, in combination with excerpts of last lines from popular films. Forget it Jake, its Chinatown could be spray-painted next to Enbridge Pipeline Rejected, the juxtaposition of appropriated texts creating both a familiarity and an oddly appropriate pairing suggestive of narratives that may exist to connect current news items with scripted dialogue. With one text residing in the real, the other in the fictive, in combination they create a barrage of information that Brüggemann unifies into a totality of black text. The overlay forms a graphic field that is only partly legible, language creating an immersive installation that draws colloquial phrases into dense cacophonic arenas. The work seems declaratory, but what it is trying to communicate is drowned out by volume, intensity and opacity.
Contemporary Painting and Materiality | Gallery Hop Vancouver Panel 2014
In the past decade, a number of younger painters—many of them based in or connected to Vancouver—have taken fresh new approaches to the materials and methods of painting.
Some of these artists have substituted expanses of sewn and dyed fabric for paint, or decided to paint on fuzzy wool rugs rather than tight, right-angled canvases.
Others have dried paint into long, skinny strings and crocheted them into wall works, or have piled layers of paint together into cubes to create works that come across as more sculptural than painterly.
This conversation, which was organized by Canadian Art's Gallery Hop Vancouver on April 12, 2014, brought together four of these innovative artists—Colleen Heslin, Emily Hill, Jeremy Hof and Angela Teng—to discuss their work at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The discussion was moderated by influential Vancouver painter and Emily Carr University associate professor Elizabeth McIntosh, who taught or interacted with many of these artists when they were students.
Canadian Art's Gallery Hop Vancouver is an annual event offering a free day of art talks, tours and celebration. Our Gallery Hops also happen annually in Toronto and Montreal. For more information about this program, visit canadianart.ca.
Awakening Memory: Sonny Assu
Open Space presents Awakening Memory, an exhibition featuring new artworks by Sonny Assu, lessLIE, and Marianne Nicolson. The exhibition is curated by France Trépanier.
Awakening Memory focuses on both customary and contemporary stories to explore the history, agency and value of an art object from Indigenous perspectives. The exhibition also considers the dynamic relationships between historical Indigenous cultural objects and contemporary Indigenous art practices.
Through the process of remembering, reclaiming and reactivating knowledge, memory-stories are awakened about how we–all of us here–inhabit this land.
Sonny Assu is a Ligwilda'xw Kwakwaka'wakw contemporary artist. He graduated from Emily Carr University (2002) and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art in 2011 and was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012, 2013 and 2015. His work has been accepted into the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Hydro Quebec, Lotto Quebec and in various other public and private collections across Canada, the United States and the UK.
Top 6 Museums to Visit | Vancouver Travel
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Planning a trip to Vancouver? Learn about the top six museums to visit and what makes them special in this travel video. Tip: If you're more interested in science than art or history, check out the University of British Columbia's Beaty Biodiversity Museum.
Vancouver’s museums aren’t just attractions, they also offer insight into the history and culture of British Columbia. Start by learning about the city’s history in the Museum of Vancouver, which features everything from 1950s neon signs to Northwest Coast First Nation artifacts. Even better is the The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, which has an impressive collection of artwork from around the world, but is best known for its collection of First Nations art. See the towering totem poles, or works by the celebrated Haida artist Bill Reid. More of his work can be seen at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. The museum showcases jewelry, sculpture, wood carvings, and prints by Reid and other contemporary artists. Also worth a visit is the Vancouver Art Gallery, which is Western Canada’s largest art gallery. The collection contains thousands of works by Canadian artists, including major pieces by the great British Columbian artist Emily Carr. But if you want to see modern art, head to the Contemporary Art Gallery, where there’s always a new exhibition featuring artists from Canada and beyond. If you’re more interested in science than art or history, the University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum might be the place for you. Here, you can see the skeleton of a blue whale, among many other specimens. Vancouver’s museums are some of Canada’s best, so be sure to make time for a few during your visit.
Vancouver Art Gallery: Embracing Canada
Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven
October 30, 2015 - January 24, 2016
Experience the beauty and power of our home and native land!
Vancouver Art Gallery
Wonderful place with beautiful cafe and nice coffee. I recommend to everyone to visit this area. In Christmas time you may see big Christmas tree. They removed the fountain in the middle though.
Vancouver ART SCENE: TAKASHI MURAKAMI AT THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Feb 3 to May 6, 2018
from the Vancouver Art Gallery website:
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is the first major retrospective of Takashi Murakami’s paintings to be shown in Canada. Spanning three decades of the artist’s career—from his monumental paintings of the 1980s to new, never-before-seen works—this critical survey reveals the consistent themes and profound engagement with history that have guided the artist’s practice. More than fifty paintings and sculptures in the exhibition highlight a dedication to craftsmanship and uninhibited imagination mining a diverse field of conceptual and cultural references extending from folklore to art history and popular culture.
The exhibition takes its title “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” from an ancient Japanese parable, tako ga jibun no ashi wo kurau. It refers to a situation in which one survives for the time being by feeding on or sacrificing oneself. The octopus eats its own leg to survive, but does so knowing the tentacle will regenerate. The phrase symbolises the cyclical nature of Murakami’s practice and the creative output of the Kaikai KiKi studio. Murakami is the octopus: he consumes history, culture and even his own oeuvre and fame to persevere as an artist.
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Canadian Post ~ War & Contemporary Art, November 27, 2014, Toronto
Heffel is excited to offer 70 extraordinary works showcasing Canada's finest Post ~ War & Contemporary Art. Please press play and enjoy this video of some of the many highlights in the sale.
A special Tumblr site for Lawren Harris: Canadian Visionary - Vancouver Art Gallery
Lawren Harris looked to drawing as an exploratory exercise that was central to his practice. The majority of the artist's paintings developed out of his sketches in pencil, graphite and charcoal on paper. He often squared his drawings—incorporating a grid over his images to use as a point of reference, enabling him to enlarge them into painted canvases. Whether undertaken during his trips through Ontario, the Rocky Mountains or the Arctic, or as part of the development of abstract works conceptualized in his studio, drawing served as a key part of his artistic process.
The exhibition Lawren Harris: Canadian Visionary includes one of Harris' sketchbooks and forty-six drawings from the Vancouver Art Gallery's permanent collection, a number of which were gifted to the Gallery by Margaret H. Knox in 1985. These drawings provide important information about his artistic process.
The sketches included on harrisdrawings.tumblr.com have yet to be paired with their corresponding paintings. We invite you to browse the images and suggest which of Harris' paintings these drawings can be matched with. This project is an effort to expand on the scholarship of Harris' work by inviting contributions from experts worldwide, while also encouraging the broader public to engage with the artist's works.
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