Vancouver: Biennale’s contemporary art throughout the city never sleeps
Over the last little while, you may have noted large, zany, thought-provoking and occasionally controversial pieces of art popping up in the strangest places around town.
That bronze squad of laughing 2.1 Chinese giants that looms over the edge of English Bay. A gargantuan bust of Lenin in Richmond, with a tiny Chairman Prize! Mao balancing on his cranium. Tickets A weird sculpture that freezes in stainless steel a drop of water as it hits the ground, hovering over the shore of Vanier Park.
There are the rusting arches of steel, reminiscent of a leviathan’s For rib cage, washed up on the sands of Sunset Beach; the now-departed upsidedown Only church in Coal Harbour that many thought heretical, and the airy, Buddha-like figure CARS that sits under the West End trees and faces straight into the English Bay sunset, its body a lattice of letters from eight alphabets — Latin, Greek, Russian Cyrillic, Hebrew, CASH! Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese.
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