Public Artwork
THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE
Location:
Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Terada, Ron
Text author(s):
Terada, Ron
Installation year:
2010 Description:
The work takes the form of a large freestanding sign that sits in front of the library, just off the southern entrance of the building, by heavy pedestrian traffic.
Text of the artwork:
THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE
Text theme:
Reference to the past
Artwork theme:
Using a typography that is at once familiar and accessible, the artwork is a reference to Vancouver’s neon past, when the famous BOW-MAC sign and legendary Woodward’s W reigned over the city’s skyline.
Note(s):
“The sign takes its cues from an era of signage when signs were seen as celebratory, grand and iconic – in effect, as landmarks in their own right, a kind of symbolic architecture… Taken within the context of a public library, the work touches upon – in a very poetic way – the use of words and language as boundless and imaginative, as a catalyst for a multiplicity of meanings.”
Ron Terada
Source: City of Vancouver (2010). Public Art.
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/publicart/2010/lg_thewords.htm
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