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Tuesday April 5th, 2011 2 Years | 40 Works of Art | 37 Artists Creating and executing a Biennale as large as ours takes countless hours, volunteers, and a great deal of hard work. After two years of working so… Monday April 4th, 2011 Watch Kon talk about his Blue Trees on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Last week, Kon was given the opportunity to share his ideas behind his Blue Tree project on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer. This gives a lot of great… Friday April 1st, 2011 It’s Not the Same Without Sculpture! I was speaking with an Executive director of another non-profit foundation, who told me that although Yue Minjun’s “A-maze-ing… Thursday March 31st, 2011 Did Someone Say Blue Trees!?! The Blue Trees have officially landed in West Vancouver! On the corner of Marine and 14th you can now see some of Kon’s lovely electric blue… Wednesday March 30th, 2011 Port Moody Before & After! Talk about feeling welcomed by a community! We experienced such amazing support from the entire community of Port Moody while we were turning their… Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 Get this party started! Day 1 in Port Moody What a great start we’ve already had on day one in Port Moody. After being warmly greeted by city staff we began our blue forest at site number… Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 Drumroll please…that’s a wrap in Richmond! Day 5 in Richmond was absolutely perfect. We were saved yesterday by a local hero who, not only offered his equipment free of charge to Kon, but he… Friday March 18th, 2011 Day 2 in Richmond – ✓check! Forget colourant at Biennale office ✓ Volunteers cancel ✓ Sprayer stops working ✓ Rain ✓ More Rain ✓✓ It’s easy to be calm and collected when… Thursday March 17th, 2011 Ready, Set, Go! Blue Trees in Richmond – Day 1 in pictures You drive by city workers daily – sporting their hard hats and reflective vests and steel-toed boots but you, like us rarely think of all of the … Wednesday March 16th, 2011 The Blue Trees… before pictures Check out artist Konstantin Dimopoulos are he works with the City of Richmond for his new project, The Blue Trees! He will begin to apply the blue… Tuesday March 15th, 2011 We’ve got a cure for your winter blues – MORE BLUE! We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of International artist, Konstantin Dimopoulos! We guarantee you will literally stop in your tracks when you see… Wednesday March 9th, 2011 Who’s going to get the last laugh? When is the last time you went down to English bay and DIDN’T see someone posing with the iconic, bronze, laughing men? “A-maze-ing Laughter,”… Thursday March 3rd, 2011 Art imitating… art? I remember being in a high school art class where the teacher handed us paints and told us to paint anything that we saw in the room – I painted … Friday January 7th, 2011 Meet the Maquettes Some pictures of maquettes we have here in the Biennale office:   A maquette is a small-scale model of an architectural work or sculpture. We ask each … Wednesday August 25th, 2010 New Addition to Sunset Community Centre The Sunset Community Centre got a new addition! Hold that Thought is a work in neon with programmed failure units by Toronto multimedia artist Kelly… Tuesday August 24th, 2010 Another Biennale Sculpture Got the Title of Coolest Public Art! From Tuija Seipell of Jaunted.com – Vancouver is still basking in the afterglow of the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of the best remnants of the… Monday August 16th, 2010 Vancouver Biennale on TV! Hot off the press! Watch NEW coverage about the Vacouver Biennale and find out about its public online learning program on Novus Community Channel… Tuesday March 23rd, 2010 Igor Mitoraj’s Eros Bendato Scrippolato Lands in Yaletown Another giant head has appeared in a Vancouver public space, this time a Yaletown park has become inhabited by Igor Mitoraj’s classically… Tuesday March 9th, 2010 Sunny Day in Richmond with Water #10: Vancouver Biennale Yesterday I posted some excellent photos of Yvonne Domenge’s sculpture Wind Waves taken by local photographer Jon Chiang. They were excellent… Saturday January 23rd, 2010 Ravens and Jun Ren's Sublime Water #7 at Vanier Park There’s lots of reasons to look forward to summer in Vancouver especially when we’re living through the cold winter rains of February and…
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