From Italy to Richmond, the Latest Biennale Sculptures Arrive at Lansdowne Station
27 January 2010
Commuters and residents along No. 3 Road will soon be joined by three large scale sculptures from the prestigious Mexican artist Javier Marin. Marin’s famous Cabeza Vainilla, Cabeza Córdoba, Cabeza Chiapas (Vanilla Head, Córdoba Head, Chiapas Cabeza) are the next Vancouver Biennale works to be temporarily installed in Richmond at the Canada Line Lansdowne Station on No. 3 Road.
Javier Marin’s sculptures make a profound impression. This trio of enormous heads portrays a sense of strength, decay, and history. The gigantic heads of polyester resin and iron appear as if rendered in clay. They are the colour of the red clay of the earth, terracotta, a material with special significance to Marin’s native Mexico. Javier Marín was born in Uruapan, in the Michoacin region of Mexico. Marin’s Heads have been exhibited in Pietrasanta and Madrid before making their way to Richmond.
Javier Marin’s piece is just one of nine sculptures residents and visitors will see throughout Richmond during the Sculpture Biennale which runs through to 2011. Other Biennale works in Richmond include Yvonne Domenge’s “Olas de Viento” at Garry Point Park, Dennis Oppenheim’s “Arriving Home” at YVR – International Arrivals and the Gao Brothers’s “Miss Mao trying to poise herself at the top of Lenin’s Head.” The remainder of Biennale works will continue to be installed through to Spring 2010.
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