Taizo Yamamoto : carts, hedges, lions.

Title & Author:

Taizo Yamamoto : carts, hedges, lions.

Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto ; Berkeley : Figure.1, [2024]
©2024

Description:

103 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Shopping carts / Taizo Yamamoto -- Evident belonging / Aaron Peck -- Hedges / Taizo Yamamoto -- The privacy hedge / Kevin Chong -- Lion gates / Taizo Yamamoto -- Lucky lions / Jackie Wong.

Summary:

"Three series of intricate graphite drawings depict, with arresting realism, real-world examples of assembled, grown, and built objects common to distinct milieus of Vancouver: the shopping carts piled high with belongings that clatter along sidewalks in the downtown core; the long, high hedges that insulate single-family homes from the din of arterial traffic; and the sculptural lions placed for good luck atop fenceposts in front of many homes, especially on the city’s east side. In creating snapshots and then laborious drawings of these objects, Taizo Yamamoto, the principal of Yamamoto Architecture, was driven by a fascination with how the recurrence of these seemingly mundane objects speaks to omnipresent issues of housing unaffordability, densification, and the aspirations of diasporic communities—concerns that have an uneasy relationship to celebrated narratives of Vancouver but play a prominent role in residents’ everyday lives. To this work he brings not just sustained careful attention but an architect’s eye for details both structural and textural, resulting in immersive, richly nuanced drawings. New essays and fiction from three authors engages the work through prose: Aaron Peck, author of Jeff Wall: North & West (2015), interprets the shopping cart drawings as an appreciation of “ephemeral architecture” and sees affinities to work by Walker Evans and Hilda and Bernd Becher; a short story by Giller Prize–nominated author Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu, 2023) imagines the lives behind the hedges; and Jackie Wong, senior editor of The Tyee, reports on the origin, production, and symbolism of the many lions dotting the city."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

177327242X
9781773272429 (hardcover)

Subject:

Yamamoto, Taizo, 1975-
Vancouver (B.C.) In art.
Vancouver (C.-B.) Dans l'art.

Added entries:

Yamamoto, Taizo, 1975- Drawings. Selections.
Peck, Aaron. Evident belonging.

Carts, hedges, lions

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320582
Call No.: 320582
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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