The rain held off and this week we visited the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery.
We looked at Patrick Faigenbaum's photographs, and considered his use of portraiture, still life, and landscape in relationship to similar genres found within painting. Our conversations touched on the relationship between two different mediums, pointing to aspects of art history and the cinematic frame.
Afterward, we took a look at Art Spiegelman's work upstairs, to consider his working process and the development of Maus.
Discussions circulated around the process of editing, and the significance in his choice of animals for different groups of people (mice, cats, frogs etc).
We ended our fieldtrip at the Contemporary Art Gallery, and helped ourselves to Ciprian Muresan's large "bouncing ball" / candy dispenser, part of his "Recycled Playground" solo exhibition.
For those of you who missed this trip, I recommend going down to take a look.
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