New public art on Main Street including the #3 bus route
December 7, 2012
New public art on Main Street including the #3 bus route
December 7, 2012
Did you notice something different on the #3 today? Three articulated trolley buses have been included in an art installation called Memento by artist Gisele Amantea.
Memento comprises a permanent public sculpture and a suite of temporary artworks conceived to reflect the historic and the evolving material culture of Main Street.
Untitled (Poodle), is a 7-foot cast aluminum representation of a porcelain poodle figurine perched on a platform atop a 25-foot steel pole. It’s located on the west side of Main Street in Vancouver in the block between 17th and 18th avenues. The suite of temporary artworks, on display until the Spring of 2013.
Want to know more? Check out this .pdf. Enjoy!
[…] Memento – Envy, a panel showing a group of knit poodles looking jealousy at a porcelain poodle figurine, wraps the outside of a second trolley. Inside this trolley are three thematically related interior cards in which knit figures act as the dramatis personae. […]