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Sculpture BiennaleThe Vancouver International Biennale is a major biannual outdoor art exhibition featuring world-class international sculptures, new media and performance art. The City of Richmond is participating in the 2009-2011 Biennale and will temporarily showcase works by renowned artists from around the world.
Works Installed in Richmond
Yvonne DomengeOlas de Viento (Wind Waves)
Located at Garry Point Park, Steveston
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The Gao BrothersMiss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head
Located at the corner space at the intersection of Elmbridge Way and Alderbridge Way
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Javier MarinCabeza Vainilla, Cabeza Córdoba, Cabeza Chiapas
Located at Lansdowne Station
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Patrick HughesDoors of Knowledge
Located in Minoru Park
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Jun RenWater #10
Located at Cambie Plaza along the dyke
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Toni LatourHomage to Parenthood
Located at Brighouse Station - Canada Line
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Hema UpadhyayLoco-Foco-Motto
Exhibited at Aberdeen Centre
No longer on display.
An elemental display of fire and water takes centre stage at Richmond’s Aberdeen Centre. Loco-Foco-Motto, five vortex-like chandeliers composed of 750,000 unlit matchsticks, have been suspended above the central atrium fountains at Aberdeen Centre in the latest artwork installation by the 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale.
From Mumbai, artist Hema Upadhyay led a team of women volunteers at the Aberdeen Centre for three weeks in May in creating these elaborate matchstick chandeliers. As one of India’s rising stars in the contemporary arts scene, Upadhyay often incorporates surprising materials in her works to comment on the friction between poverty and wealth in contemporary society and the forces of destruction at large in the world.
Upadhyay’s works, including previous versions of the Loco-Foco-Motto chandeliers, have been exhibited in art galleries and museums. The artist has taken this work out of the gallery and into the shopping centre for everyone to enjoy. These works will remain on site through 2010.
The artist is also one of five included in the Richmond Art Gallery’s spring exhibit In Transition: New Art from India. This year her work has also been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, UK, and Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem, Israel. Drawing on her own surroundings and personal history, Upadhyay reflects upon issues of gender, class and urban displacement in her art, which typically combines painting, sculpture, collage and photography.
Media Releases
Second International Biennale Sculpture Installed In Richmond
First Biennale Sculpture Lands in Richmond
