gallery date night
Vancouver Art Gallery at Robson Square
It's a lovely day and I've got a date! I'm picking up husband from work and we are going to visit several exhibitions late this afternoon and into the evening. We really love walking about in the vibrant downtown on a nice evening.
First we will see the Finnish Design exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery that I've already written about. I noticed that the gallery now has the media release with lots of photos on their site, so go have a look at that.
Then we are going to the Vancouver Art Gallery to take advantage of their Tuesday night's pay-by-donation entry. As usual we are squeaking in near the end of two major shows by two very different BC artists - the Takao Tanabe retrospective, and the survey exhibition of hot artist Brian Jungen.
I will write more about Tanabe and Jungen after seeing the exhibitions.
Posted by Marja-Leena on April 11, 2006 2:09 PM
Comments
Oh how I envy all the galleries and exhbitions you have available where you live. Hope you have a wonderful date!
Posted by: Elise | 11:10 12 April 2006
Thanks Elise, we had a great time and we know we are lucky to live in a place that has some galleries, though not as many as Toronto or Montreal and the big US cities and especially EUROPE!!!
We actually saw four major exhibitions, the three I mentioned and a fourth one, also in the VAG on their 75 years of collecting. There is so much I could say that it will take a while to write about each into some coherent posts. I'll try do it soon while it's all fresh, as I squeak some time from other busyness!
Posted by: marja-leena | 11:30 12 April 2006
Oh, how nice! I love spring - more light, better weather (at least here) and more opportunities (and more motivation) to get out and see some good art. Hope it was fun!
Posted by: leslee | 17:35 12 April 2006
Great place to live for an artist like you. I saw Anna Amnell's comment somewhere by Mari-Mekko post asking how come the Finns have so much creativity and guessing the answers to be the environment and natural talent. I agree with both. Thinking of Finnish language - how it is different from others, and how it has survived, I think we need to add to the Finnish character a need to be independent and original.
Posted by: sikuri | 17:42 12 April 2006
I agree Leslee, it's much more pleasant going out on a spring night and without rain. We really enjoyed it, thanks!
Sikuri, I do believe you are right about Finns! You would have enjoyed the Finnish design exhibition and been very proud of the Finnish architecture - it has really become very high tech in the last decade!
Posted by: marja-leena | 19:39 12 April 2006