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Stan douglas
MUSICIAN'S CABIN, 2009
Lightjet c-print, mounted on 1/4” dibond
image: 50.8 cm x 76.2 cm
image Framed: 78.7 cm x 101.6 cm
unique trial proof
image courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York
ESTIMATE: $8,000-10,000
Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas (born 1960, Vancouver), is one of today’s most significant and widely exhibited contemporary artists. Douglas’ highly innovative and complex oeuvre has advanced media art in profound ways. His film and video installations and photography frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music. He examines the failed utopias of modernism and obsolete technologies, not as a redemption of “these past events, but [a way] to reconsider them: to understand why these utopian moments did not fulfill themselves.”
Recently Douglas has begun to make photographic works that are thematically and formally independent of his film and video, beginning with the monumental photograph Every Building on 100 West Hastings from 2001. In 2009 Douglas completed Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, a 30 by 50 foot photographic mural depicting the Vancouver Gastown Riots of 1971, which will soon be unveiled as the central focus within the atrium of the Woodward’s building redevelopment in Vancouver.
Musician’s Cabin (2009) depicts the interior of a shack on Vancouver’s North Shore, and is thematically related to Douglas’ monumental depiction of the cluttered interior of McLeod’s Bookstore (2006) in Vancouver, both of which record two historically-rich, interior spaces. As with this photograph, Douglas chronicles historic moments in regional history.
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