Michael Lin: A Modest Veil
Discipline:
Visual Arts
Principal Artist(s):
Michael Lin
Presented With:
Vancouver Art Gallery, City of Vancouver Public Art Program and supported in part by the Council for Cultural Affairs (Chinese Taipei) in collaboration with the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York.
When:
1/15/2010 - 5/02/2010
Gallery Hours
Daily: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesdays: 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Where:
Vancouver Art Gallery, Georgia Street façade
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Map
Ticket Type:
Free (no reservations required)
Information:
Vancouver Art Gallery information line: 604 662 4719
www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
Artists at work on murals by Michael Lin.
A hand-painted mural titled Georgia Street Plaza, 23.01-02.05.10, 2010
Photo by Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery
Well-known internationally for his re-conceptualization of public spaces, artist Michael Lin has been commissioned to create a massive hand-painted mural to cover the Vancouver Art Gallery’s northern façade. The patterns and exuberant colours used in Lin’s installations are adapted from traditional Taiwanese textiles, which he enlarges and transposes so that they cover various architectural forms. The placement of Lin’s work on the gallery’s exterior — the first presentation of his work in Canada — invites visitors to reconsider the building’s history and neoclassical architecture in a new light, while acknowledging the city’s diverse cultural traditions.
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