Friday, April 27, 2012

West End IRHDR 15a Apr 20 2012.jpg

I love Vancouver's version of the Biennale sculpture exhibition. Being a tourist town having world class items of art scattered across the city makes for millions of photo ops. Being an urban residential area having world class items of art in our backyard gives a nice high class feel to where we live.

This is the sculpture 217.5 Arc x 13' located on Sunset Beach in downtown Vancouver. Crafted by Bernar Venet of France and so named for it's 217'5 degree art of 13 raw steel segments. As noted by the artist "Nature, the universe, and life are all interconnected and explainable mathematically." Well put.

In behind the sculpture are a collection of English Bay beach facing residential towers most if not all built during the late 1960's and early 1970's. And while it's hard to see in the shot there's a parking lot just to the left of the photo that, this year will get its first set of electric vehicle charging stations. Modern art, funky 1970's architecture and 21st personal transportation-pod charging stations. How cool is that? :)

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