Œuvre d'art public

THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE

Ron Terada, THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE, 2010
Ron Terada, THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE, 2010
Location:
Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Terada, Ron
Text author(s): 
Terada, Ron
Installation year: 
2010
Remarks on location: 

Juste à côté de l'entrée sud du bâtiment.

Description: 

Ce projet de Ron Terada prend la forme d'un grand panneau autoportant

Text of the artwork: 

THE WORDS DON'T FIT THE PICTURE

Text theme: 
Référence au passé
Artwork theme: 

L’oeuvre est une référence au néon dans l’histoire de Vancouver, quand le célèbre signe BOW-MAC et le légendaire "W" de Woodward régnaient sur l'horizon de la ville. La localisation de l’œuvre, à côté de la bibliothèque aborde, d'une manière poétique, la question de l'utilisation des mots et du langage, sans limite du point de vue de l'imaginaire - un catalyseur pour de multiples significations.

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

Document(s): 

"Mapping and Marking" public art program

Appelbe, Alison (2010).  "Mapping and Marking" public art program. Espace. 92 (Été - Summer) , p. 38-40