The 1000++ Artworks of media Sculpture and containing the word douglas coupland, sculpture

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These monumental sculptures are immediately identifiable by their distinctive colours and shapes as Tide, Downy and Penzoil bottles used as containers for common household products. Drawing inspiration from these mass-produced utilitarian objects, Coupland enlarged their scale and removed their labe...

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Through a wide range of media including assemblage, installation, painting, photography, sculpture and quilts, Coupland has persistently investigated Canadian cultural identity, both benign and menacing. Using imagery and objects latent with symbolic meaning for Canadians, he delineates what it mean...

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These delicate sculptures were created from pages of Coupland/

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These delicate sculptures were created from pages of Coupland/

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Over the years Coupland noticed how people at Lego building events cannibalize structures left behind by previous builders, in the process creating radical hybrid forms. The artist hijacked this mode of creation and produced Towers, which consists of crowd-sourced Lego structures he then selected, m...

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The landscape has long been a defining aspect of Canada’s national identity and a constant subject of Coupland’s explorations. In Spectra Four Seasons, he represents the natural world more obliquely by using an array of pencil crayons enclosed in a Plexiglas case. Through their manner of display, he...

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In January 1998 a massive ice storm struck eastern Canada and the United States, causing extensive damage to electrical infrastructure as well as widespread, long-term power outages. Many transmission towers collapsed under the weight of the ice; these massive, crumpled towers—which were part of an ...

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“Starting in 2009, I made several trips to China where I noticed the absence of consumer objects possessing immediate regional authenticity. I found cigarette packaging with its shiny foil and indigenous lettering to be the one consumer opportunity with distinct and potent local provenance. These as...

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The first and last Lego kit Coupland purchased as a child was No. 345, which forms a modern single-storey house complete with a fence, gate that opens and closes, carport and car. For his 345 Modern House installation, the artist has recreated 100 such kits using original Lego parts as well as hundr...

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