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URL source (Obtenu le 2021-11-10 06:20): http://plepuc.org/fr/node/1737

Happy is the country that has no history

Happy is the country that has no history [1]

icône image/jpegSource: Balkind, A. (1990), Transpositions : A Public Exhibition […],Vancouver : Active ARTIFACTS Cultural Association. p. 51 [2]
Location:
SkyTrain-Granville , Vancouver, BC, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Gill, Don
Text author(s): 
Gill, Don
Installation year: 
1990
Description: 

Photograph placed in a billboard

Text of the artwork: 

Happy is the country that has no history

Text theme: 
Obscured history
Artwork theme: 
One of the three themes of the exhibition, portraiture, injustice towards aboriginal peoples
History: 
The Transpositions exhibition was created over a 3-year period. Works are divided into 3 categories: portraiture, landscape and flora (nature); and advertising. This arwork was created for the advertising platform posters of the SkyTrain stations. The work of 20 Canadian artists extends 24 km along the SkyTrain route from Vancouver to Surrey. Four to seven works are installed randomly amongst the advertising at the following seven stations: Waterfront, Burrard, Grandville, Broadway, Metrotown, New Westminster and Scott Road.
Event date(s): 
1990

Dimensions:

Height: 
1.82m
Width: 
1.21m
Note(s): 

Exhibition posters provided by Colorific Photo Labs

Exhibition Space donated by Trans Ad

All images were worked either from original negatives or transparencies, enlarged and mounted on styrene board.

There exists more than one version of this piece

Artist's biography: 
Gill, Don [3]
Propriétaire(s): 
Collection of the artist
Document(s): 
Transpositions : A Public Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Photography
Balkind, Alvin (1990).  Transpositions : A Public Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Photography. Vancouver : Active ARTIFACTS Cultural Association, p. 51
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[1] http://plepuc.org/fr/node/1737
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/happy is the country that has no history.jpg
[3] http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8015/Webtop/Searchapp/ws/aich/user/wwwf/Record?upp=0&m=1&w=NATIVE('ARTIST+ph+words+''gill+don''')&order=native('every+ar')
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/fr/print/1737
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/happy-is-the-country-that-has-no-history