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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 17:59): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/lying-on-top-of-a-buildingnearer

Lying on top of a building...nearer

Lying on top of a building...nearer [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Griffin, Kevin (2009). Public art in Vancouver: What's in a name?. The Vancouver Sun, (December 4) [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Griffin, Kevin (2009). Public art in Vancouver: What's in a name?. The Vancouver Sun, (December 4) [3]
Location:
Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, 299 Burrard street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Gillick, Liam
Text author(s): 
Gillick, Liam
Installation year: 
2009
Remarks on location: 

The text sites on an extension of the floor plate, from floors 5 to 22.

Description: 

Text on the perimeter of the hotel windows. The phrase is repeated several times.

Text of the artwork: 

Lying on top of a building the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

Text theme: 
Double edged statement that could potentially bring you back to a person lying down on a dock or in a yard in that area in the fairly recent past and looking up at the sky and how that relates to the new development.

Dimensions:

Height: 
0.63m
Note(s): 

The $1-million public art work was commissioned by Westbank and Peterson Investment Group through the city of Vancouver's public art guidelines for new developments.

Artist's biography: 
Liam Gillick [4]
Architect(s): 
Cheng, James
Document(s): 
Public art in Vancouver: What's in a name? A heck of a lot, actually
Griffin, Kevin (2009).  Public art in Vancouver: What's in a name? A heck of a lot, actually. <http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Public+Vancouver+What+name+heck+actually/2305001/story.html> (December 4) : The Vancouver Sun
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Public Art or Hotel? Vancouver Fairmont Pacific Rim
Carpico, Ryan (2010).  Public Art or Hotel? Vancouver Fairmont Pacific Rim. <http://buildipedia.com/channels/in-studio/blog/item/1074-public-art-or-hotel-vancouver-fairmont-pacific-rim> (Mars 2) : Buildipedia.com
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/lying-on-top-of-a-buildingnearer
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/Liam Gillick_Lying on top 1_0.jpg
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/Liam Gillick_Lying on top.jpg
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Gillick
[5] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[6] http://plepuc.org/en/print/1996
[7] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/lying-on-top-of-a-buildingnearer