Views of the Collection: The Street
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Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H7
Robert Capa, “Chartres, France, 18 August, 1944 (female collaborators marched through town),” 1944
silver gelatin print. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Views of the Collection: The Street, featuring painting, photography and sculpture on themes of modernity and urban life.
This exhibition is part of a series presented on the Gallery’s fourth floor that comprise thematic perspectives on the Vancouver Art Gallery's collection. The urban street has been an important source of inspiration for artists since the Renaissance, and remains a site for the production and enactment of culture in the world today. As an intersection of private and public realms, the street is an arena where individual gestures and chance encounters speak to the conviviality and pleasures, the challenges and alienation of everyday life. Such themes are explored in works by Roy Arden, Kati Campbell, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, Fred Herzog, Hong Chan Park, Judy Radul, Jack Shadbolt, Danny Singer and Ian Wallace.