Vancouver's Equinox Transforms City Art Scene

Vancouver’s Equinox transforms city’s art gallery scene

Equinox Project Space’s exhibition of Fred Herzog photos inaugurates our biggest open area dedicated to artworks

By Kevin Griffin,Vancouver Sun, February 3, 2012

Click link below to see Vancouver Sun Promotion of Fred Herzog's exhibition at Equinox Project Space
Vancouver’s Equinox transforms city’s art gallery scene (with video)

Exhibition hours: Thursday thru Saturday, 12 - 6 PM

Equinox Project Space
525 Great Northern Way

 More about Fred Herzog:

Fred Herzog checks his colour page proofs

YouTube: Uploaded by dmdouglasmac on Jun 24, 2011 At the best of times book design is a collaborative project. Fred Herzog has years of experience processing and developing his Kodachrome film, but when it comes time to place his iconic photographs of Vancouver in book form, a talented book designer is called for. Enter Peter Cocking, Art Director at D&M Publishers. Together, they check out the colour page proofs of Herzog's newest collection Fred Herzog: Photographs, forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre in November. http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/fred-herzog-photographs Fred Herzog: Photographs (publishing November 2011 by Douglas & McIntyre) is the definitive book about the stunning oeuvre of a pioneer of colour photography—Vancouver's Fred Herzog. For more than five decades, Fred Herzog has focused his lens on street life, and his striking colour photographs—of vacant lots, second-hand shops, neon signs and working-class people—evoke nostalgia in an older generation and inspire wide-eyed revelation in a younger one. The images that we now consider iconic once relegated Herzog to the margins: his bold use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and '60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black-and-white imagery. Fred Herzog has worked with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, but only in the past few years has technology allowed him to make archival pigment photographic prints of exceptional colour and intensity. Fred Herzog: Photographs showcases this innovative artist's impressive collection in a beautifully crafted volume. Providing authoritative texts are four titans of the art community: Claudia Gochmann's introduction anchors Fred Herzog's place in the history of photography, Sarah Milroy shares a conversation with Herzog, Douglas Coupland comments on what Herzog's colour photos reveal about Vancouver and Jeff Wall focuses his photographer's eye on a single Fred Herzog image.

Crowdfund the Rygo

Check out this very Kool Sculptural Project:

Crowdfund the Rygo - North America's Largest 3D Print

I just received this email request from JF Brandon:
"Hi ...  I was wondering if you wanted to put in a piece on your blog about this public art project i am doing. We want to crowd fund the Rygo, a 2 meter tall 3D print made of reused limestone powder and to be installed in Mount Pleasant. You can check out everything here www.indiegogo.com/crowdfundtherygo ".

Thanks JF ... Your project is going to be awesome!


YouTube: Uploaded by timecrash2001 on Jan 23, 2012
The Rygo was designed by Bathsheba Grossman. If we are funded, we will print it using the DShape and install it at Gropps Gallery of Vancouver, Canada.
 Go to our IndieGoGO profile here: http://www.indiegogo.com/crowdfundtherygo

	Crowdfund the Rygo CREATED BY: JF Brandon LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CATEGORY: Art Help us create the biggest 3D print in North America, designed by Bathsheba Grossman, printed by the DShape and installed at Gropp's Gallery of Vancouver
What this project is about We are combining high technology and high art to create something very special – the Rygo. Standing 2 meters tall, it will be the largest such 3D print of any type in North America (quite possibly the Western hemisphere) and will be installed for all the world to see at Gropp’s Gallery of Vancouver, Canada. Crowdfunding the Rygo reflects the best qualities of Vancouver – organic design supported by a grassroots movement. This is also an international effort! The Rygo will be printed in Italy by Enrico Dini’s DShape, itself the largest 3D printer of its kind, measuring 6 x 6 x 8 meters (20 x 20 x 27 ft). The Rygo was designed by famous 3D designer and sculptor Bathsheba Grossman of California, utilizing esoteric math and an artistic touch to craft a piece that would have been un-makeable by any other means.  Everyone in this campaign truly believes that 3D printing will shake up everything you thought you knew about design, construction, manufacturing, architecture, sculpture….you name it. We hope you feel the same. Every contribution is going towards a leap in technology that happens only once a decade.  What you will get We have lots of awesome rewards. Although the Rygo will be located in Vancouver, you will able to see and interact with the Rygo via the internet. For $15 you will be given a password to our website and see the Rygo *live* via webcam. Not only that, you will be able to change the colour and intensity of the light inside the Rygo. We have the leafychain designed by me for $20. These will be printed by our friends in New York, Buildatron, who have just released a new 3D printer onto the market.  We have actual pieces made the DShape! For $30 you will get a chunk of DShape print material – be the first in your city to have a piece of history! From $75 to $300 we have small, medium and large 3D prints of the Rygo made of clear plastic. You can put it on your necklace, put it on your desk. Above $750, you can receive an actual 3D print by the DShape. We have “Rolinks”, a chain of 4 links; each link will be printed within itself. The Rolinks is perfect as a tablepiece or hung from above.  For $1000 we have this lamp designed by JF Brandon. Called “Niche”, it measures 1 meter tall (3 ft) and can stand outside to illuminate the path or inside as a tablelamp. It was made using Voronoi diagrams to make non-repeating holes to allow light through.  Where the donations are going 3D printing, shipping and installing the Rygo will cost close to $10,000. This includes Custom Duties and Taxes. 3D printing the smaller versions of the Rygo, the Leafychain, the Rochain or the Niche are a significant expense that must be covered. If we don't meet our target, we can print a smaller Rygo. But size matters! I don't think a smaller Statue of Liberty would have had the same impact as it did. Nor a smaller Eiffel Tower. And it certainly wouldn't be "the largest" 3D print in North America. The DShape is a 6 x 6 x 8 meter 3D printer.... so if we exceed our target, we might print a bigger Rygo!  Perks for your contribution: Gratitude: $1 My personal thanks via postcard. CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed Your Name on the Plaque: $5 You will be noted for eternity as the one of the many people that made the Rygo possible. CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed Light Control: $15 You will receive a password to our website and online app to control the colour and intensity of the light inside the Rygo, which you can view via Webcam. CLAIM THIS PERK 2 Claimed Leafychain: $20 This is a keychain designed by JF Brandon and 3D printed by Buildatron of Brooklyn, NY. Made with love and math. CLAIM THIS PERK 2 Claimed Leafychain + DShape Pet Rock: $30 Your faithful companion, this is an authentic Pet Rock printed by the DShape! CLAIM THIS PERK 1 Claimed Everything Above: $50 Gratitude+Name+Light Control+Leafychain+Pet Rock CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed Small Rygo (5 x 3 x 3 cm): $75 Includes Gratitude, Your name on the Plaque, Leafychain, DShape Pet Rock and Light Control. (Please add $15 for US and Canadian Orders, $25 for International) CLAIM THIS PERK 2 Claimed Medium Rygo (7.5 x 5 x 5 cm): $120 Includes Gratitude, Your name on the Plaque, Leafychain, DShape Pet Rock and Light Control. (Please add $15 to your pledge for US and Canadian Orders, $25 for International) CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed Large Rygo (10 x 8 x 8 cm): $300 Includes Gratitude, Your name on the Plaque, Leafychain, DShape Pet Rock and Light Control. (Please add $15 for US and Canadian Orders, $25 for International) CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed The Rolinks: $750 This is an actual 3D print by the DShape. Measures 100 x 20 x 20 cm (Shipping costs not included) CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed The Niche: $1,000 This is an actual 3D print by the DShape and designed by JF Brandon. Measure 100 cm in height, with a 45 cm base. Includes weatherproof light. (Shipping costs not included) CLAIM THIS PERK 1 Claimed EVERYTHING HERE: $2,000 Gratitude Name on Plaque Light Control Leafychain Pet Rock Sm, M and L Rygo Rolinks Niche And! A personal call from me. That is the one perk you will receive immediately. CLAIM THIS PERK 0 Claimed

Symbolic Meaning of Tree

Grunt Gallery

Tuesday to Saturday
(except statutory holidays)
Noon - 5 pm
T: 604.875.9516 

#116 - 350 East 2nd Ave
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V5T 4R8

Grunt Gallery

Title: The Symbolic Meaning of Tree
Artist: Christoph Runné
Opening: Thu, 12 January 2012, 7-11pm
Exhibition Dates: Fri, 6 January 2012 – Sat, 11 February 2012

Grunt gallery is pleased to present Christoph Runné’s 16mm film installation entitled “Baum”. Through this work, Runné explores the visual symbolism of the tree. While the human condition often seems caught in cycles of hopelessness, homelessness, poverty, and “uprooted-ness”, caused by socio-economic strife, wars, and refugeeism despite great wealth, education, and promise which should be able to allay suffering— Trees, in contrast, stand vigil; firmly rooted— steadfast reminders of survival, regeneration, and hope within natures’ grander cycles. Man’s reflection on his place in nature is timeless, and the poetic metaphors which trees inspire are as relevant in a contemporary context as they were in antiquity.
“Baum” uses multiple 16mm film projections to create a sparse and virtual forest that is traversed by a solitary figure that appears both rooted and moving throughout the frames. The cyclical and repetitive movement of the abstract wanderer suggests a passage of time, and a path through the subconscious as the drifter searches for his or her place. An attempt to give form to intangible abstractions, such as “longing” or “isolation,” is evident in the discontinuous flickering of the trees caused by the single-frame footage shot of a motion picture camera—a staccato movement suggestive of Morse-code communication or the arrhythmic pressing of typewriter keys.
Christoph Runné is a Vancouver-based experimental film, video, and installation artist. His work explores the unhidden yet seemingly invisible world around us. He creates visual tone poems with a humanitarian heartbeat whose minimalist and impressionistic methodology contradicts the complex human conditions with which Runné engages.