Thursday, July 7, 2011: I just discovered that I can post pictures inside my blog! Lucky for you, because now I can show you my obsession – scroll down and to see the pictures. NOTE: This has nothing to do with Heather or the November election, but it has everything to do with yesterday’s blog—specifically how to generate tourist traffic to Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen.
I love Vancouver Biennale's sculpture A-maz-ing Laughter by Yue Minjun. Presently the figures are in English Bay at Morton Park (Triangle), in Vancouver at Davie & Denman. For the past two years, they have been incredibly popular with locals and tourists.They are considered to be one of Vancouver's tourist destinations. I am pretty sure it's impossible, regardless of how crusty you are, to visit them and not smile or laugh. I dare you.
The best news A-maz-ing Laughter is for sale! Let’s buy it for Centennial Beach!
I lifted this directly from Vancouver Biennale’s website: “The objective of the Vancouver Biennale is to celebrate art in public spaces, inviting the entire community to experience the brightest new and world renowned talent in contemporary art.” They are free, open-air museums that bring international art to everyone. They start conversations about art and they are a tremendous amount of fun.
OK, now for election news…Tonight we have a get-together at the King's to meet the other election groupies. I am looking forward to letting a “King serve me”…Hopefully, hors d'oeuvres and wine, I’ll let you know.
Check out the photos below. Don't you think we need A-maz-ing Laughter?
Links:
Vancouver Biennale: http://www.vancouverbiennale.com/sculptures_page.php?sculptureID=15
Vancouver’s Coolest Public Art: A-maze-ing Laughter
August 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM | by TuijaSeipell | Comments (0)
Photo: Ted Topping
Vancouver is still basking in the afterglow of the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of the best remnants of the Games is the public art that now decorates the city’s parks and buildings. For the next few weeks, Jaunted's Vancouver Embed Tuija Seipell of The Cool Hunter will be reporting on the best of the bunch.
A-maze-ing Laughter happily competes with The Meeting for the title of the most-photographed and most-posed-with among Vancouver’s coolest public art. Each of the 14 happy bronze-cast males is 8.5 feet tall (2.5 meters) and weighs 551 pounds (250 kilograms).
The sculptures were shipped from China, the homeland of the artist Yue Minjun, and then transported to the Morton Park Triangle at English Bay in the West End. After being lifted by cranes to their places in the circle, each figure was welded to its base.
Photo: Ted Topping
Minjun is currently one of the most influential contemporary Chinese artists, and this work marks his Canadian debut. As with the 14 men here, Minjun uses his own laughing face as the basis of many of his works. "A-maze-ing Laughter" is part of the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale (2009-2011).
A cool feature for kids has been added to the Biennale’s educational program this summer. It is an interactive game called K-Crew Detectives: Case of the English Bay Bandits! Players gather clues about five stolen Biennale sculptures and match them with a thief. Those who catch all five thieves, move on to bonus questions. If they crack those, too, they get to pick up a K-Crew poster at the Vancouver Public Library.
Photo: Ted Topping
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