Sculpture :
Location : Kitsilano Beach Park (to be installed by June 28th, 2010)
Media : Stainless steel
Artistic and whimsical chairs, which French-Canadian artist Michel Goulet has been making and installing since the 1990's have become his signature trademark. Some of the chairs he has made are utilitarian, others meant to be contemplated, and others are upside-down or laying on their sides. It is the poetry and the beauty in the simple domestic forms that is at the heart of his work. Goulet's chairs have been used in theatre, dance and performance.
The stainless steel chair forms installed here are casual, akin to kitchen or café chairs. The work titled Echoes, has an inscription on each seat in French or English text with simple, thoughtful phrases, such as "minor dreams weaved tight", or "HE ARRIVED EARLY I ARRIVED LATE so we met" and "pousser un cri plus lion dans la gorge" which translates to "a push to cry plus a lion in the throat". These phrases reflect aphorisms of everyday emotions and dreamlike thoughts that anyone can relate to. The chairs are playful and interactive, with pieces of text that create an environment that invites interaction and fosters contemplation. It's placement at Kitsilano Beach along the walkway will provide a place of respite for passerby's. Echoes was donated to the City of Vancouver by the Vancouver Biennale Legacy Foundation in 2007.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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Echoes
Artist :Michel Goulet
CanadaLocation : Kitsilano Beach Park (to be installed by June 28th, 2010)
Media : Stainless steel
Artistic and whimsical chairs, which French-Canadian artist Michel Goulet has been making and installing since the 1990's have become his signature trademark. Some of the chairs he has made are utilitarian, others meant to be contemplated, and others are upside-down or laying on their sides. It is the poetry and the beauty in the simple domestic forms that is at the heart of his work. Goulet's chairs have been used in theatre, dance and performance.
The stainless steel chair forms installed here are casual, akin to kitchen or café chairs. The work titled Echoes, has an inscription on each seat in French or English text with simple, thoughtful phrases, such as "minor dreams weaved tight", or "HE ARRIVED EARLY I ARRIVED LATE so we met" and "pousser un cri plus lion dans la gorge" which translates to "a push to cry plus a lion in the throat". These phrases reflect aphorisms of everyday emotions and dreamlike thoughts that anyone can relate to. The chairs are playful and interactive, with pieces of text that create an environment that invites interaction and fosters contemplation. It's placement at Kitsilano Beach along the walkway will provide a place of respite for passerby's. Echoes was donated to the City of Vancouver by the Vancouver Biennale Legacy Foundation in 2007.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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