BRIGHT LIGHT: Public Art in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
BRIGHT LIGHT
Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is the stage for BRIGHT LIGHT, a ground-breaking six-week series of public art exhibits, installations, performances and special events commissioned by the City of Vancouver to mark the occasion of the 2010 Olympic Winter and Paralympic Games.
Shows
Supportico Lopez
Michael Stevenson
VERGE Emerging Art Fair
The Joan Miró Foundation
Alcorcón Centre for Creation of the Arts (CREAA)
bitforms gallery
Independent Collectors
artnet
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Künstlerhaus Bremen
ARCH GALLERY, Miami
Wysing Arts Centre
Michael Kohn Gallery
Ideas
Positively White Cube Revisited
Simon Sheikh
In many ways, O’Doherty’s point is as simple as it is radical: the gallery space is not a neutral container, but a historical construct. Furthermore, it is an aesthetic object in and of itself. The ideal form of the white cube that modernism developed for the gallery space is inseparable from the artworks exhibited inside it. Indeed, the white cube not only conditions, but also overpowers the artworks themselves in its shift from placing content within a context to making the context itself the content.
