You gotto love Douglas Coupland...always doing interesting stuff.
Artist Douglas Coupland has created some innovative and large-scale art in and around Vancouver over the last decade, but he's about to do something he's never done before: Have his artwork featured on an entire Vancouver apartment highrise.
Coupland has created a massive piece of public art which will be painted along the side of Reliance Properties' The Berkeley at the corner of Denman and Davie overlooking English Bay.
The property management company commissioned Coupland to create the artwork for the building, which is currently undergoing extensive – and headline-making – upgrades.
“This would be the first time that an entire building serves as my canvas,” says Coupland in a media release.
Coupland has ambitious plans for the ambitious project: “The overall effect of this public artwork will be as an anchor point of where the city meets the ocean, and it will make a person feel like they are at the heart of something. The building will redefine English Bay’s skyline and become a mandatory tourist stop for photos. I want people to daydream about living at The Berkeley," said the artist and writer.
