Thursday August 14th, 2014
Brazil reveals contemporary side at pavilion
Open Borders/Crossroads Vancouver, the theme of the 2014 Vancouver Biennale, invites any number of trite interpretations. Happily, living ideas about the nature of place, along with a strong feeling for materials, reveal themselvers through the mixed-mnedia installations and large-scale sculptures on view in the biennale's International Pavilion. The exhibtion, spotlighting eight contemporary Brazilian artists, is mounted in the stripped-down and repurposed Pipefitters Building in Shipyard Square, east of Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver.
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Monday August 11th, 2014
Massive mural by famous Brazilian graffiti artists coming to Granville Island
Six grey, industrial concrete silos on Granville Island are on the verge of becoming Vancouver’s most iconic piece of public artwork. World-famous graffiti artists Os Gemeos, twin brothers from Brazil, will spray paint the 21-metre tall waterfront silos in a 360-degree mural as part of the Vancouver Biennale public art project.
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Saturday August 9th, 2014
Giant mural coming to Vancouver’s Granville Island
VANCOUVER -- The six massive silos that dominate the Ocean Concrete plant on Granville Island have now shed 50 years of grime and muck. And later this month two world-famous Brazilian street artists known as Osgemeos — who painted the FIFA World Cup Boeing 747 — will get to work transforming the silos into a monster-mural covering more than 23,500 square feet.
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Wednesday August 6th, 2014
Art and soul: Biennale goes big on Granville Island
ART FOR ALL: A crew from Dave Notte’s Wolfgang Painters firm began preparation work on Ocean Concrete’s Granville Island silos Wednesday. It wasn’t to ready them for the firm’s logo or the sunburst, fruit or vegetable designs seen on its blender trucks. Instead, Brazilian street artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, a.k.a. Os Gemeos (the twins), will create a 2,000-square-metre mural by Sept. 7 that would cost $1 million if privately commissioned. However, after painting murals at London’s Tate Modern gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach and elsewhere, they’ll execute their biggest-ever work for free. The deal, costing only $125,000 for preparation, administration and travel accommodation, mostly crowd-funded, was made by senior curator Marcello Dantas for the 2014-16 Vancouver Biennale.
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Tuesday August 5th, 2014
Vancouver Biennale aims to rewrite contemporary Brazilian culture
Open Borders/Crossroads Vancouver, the theme of the 2014 Vancouver Biennale, invites any number of trite interpretations. Happily, lively ideas about the nature of place, along with a strong feeling for materials, reveal themselves through the mixed-media installations and large-scale sculptures on view in the biennale’s International Pavilion. This exhibition, spotlighting eight contemporary Brazilian artists, is mounted in the stripped-down and repurposed Pipefitters Building in Shipyard Square, east of Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver.
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Wednesday July 30th, 2014
Hungry like the wolf
Renowned artist Vik Muniz wants to bring the wolf back to Squamish. The Brazilian born sculptor and photographer was in town last week working with the Vancouver Biennale group and the Squamish Nation to help create a land mosaic to represent the community. An idea came to him after conversations with Squamish Nation members.
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Wednesday July 30th, 2014
“I Have A Dream”
“I Have a Dream” arriva alla Biennale di Vancouver e fra i sogni ce n’è uno anche italiano. Il progetto per un’arte globale, la pace e un’agricoltura libera dagli ogm, che è nato dall’impulso dell’artista indiana Shweta Bhattade, vede la partecipazione di ben trenta paesi destinati a crescere nei due anni della manifestazione.
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Thursday July 24th, 2014
Vancity Buzz’s City Happenings
The spirit of the games will live on in Olympic Village through a new art installation as part of the Vancouver Biennale. American artist Jonathan Borofsky’s “Human Structures Vancouver” was inspired by the artist-selected site, and the 2014-2016 Biennale’s theme “Open Borders/Crossroads Vancouver.”
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Thursday July 24th, 2014
Biennale brings artist Vik Muniz to Squamish for big project
On Monday, July 21, Muniz came to Squamish to create a new conceptual public artwork as part of the Vancouver Biennale. The piece is being constructed along the Mamquam Blind Channel downtown, and Muniz hopes the public will take part in its creation.
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Tuesday July 22nd, 2014
Renowned artist bursts into B.C. on a grand scale
Brazilian-born, New York City-based artist Vik Muniz isn’t afraid of bold new adventures. Muniz, 52, began his artistic career as a sculptor but moved on to photographic representations of his work, building finely detailed mosaics from quotidian materials like chocolate, sugar and junkyard rubbish and then photographing them. Driven to explore different mediums, he has been at the heart of two documentary films, including the Academy Award-nominated Waste Land, which chronicles Muniz’s work at a Brazilian junkyard located in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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