Cabin Fever | The Vag Launches Summertime 2018 Exhibition

Dorothea Lange, Home of Rural Rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California

If e'er at that topographic point was an fine art present that was made for 's readership, Cabin Fever just mightiness last it. The Vancouver Art Gallery launches their Summer 2018 Exhibition this calendar week commencement alongside Cabin Fever (running June ninth - September 30, 2018) which explores the history of the cabin inwards North America both every bit an architectural shape as well as a cultural construct. From renderings, artworks as well as commercial products also every bit architectural models, plans as well as full-scale interventions, the present surveys this iconic withal humble lodging's utility, adulation as well as prevalance inwards Canada as well as the US.



Borrowed from the idiomatic human face for an anxious dry soil of heed resulting from a prolonged remain inwards a remote or confined place, Cabin Fever which spans the minute flooring of the Gallery, features scenes from the rustic sanctuary of the sort Henry David Thoreau wrote close inwards his book, Walden (1854) to minimalist homestead popularized past times java tabular array books as well as websites such every bit Cabin Porn, the cabin as well as its connotations accept evolved over centuries.  Exploring the development through 3 commutation themes, "Shelter", which introduces the cabin every bit a practical solution to patterns of westward expansion as well as emergency relief; "Utopia", which examines the cabin every bit the ideal locale to exercise introspection or to escape the conventions of society; as well as "Porn", which positions the cabin every bit an consider fully integrated into pop culture.

Here's a sneak peek!

Ken Isaacs - 8' Microhouse, 1972/2018
Baltic Birch Plywood steel Constructed past times Goodweather Studio

Scott & Scott Architects, Whistler Cabin, Whistler, BC (structural skeletal model), 2016
yellowish cedar as well as Douglas fir
Courtesy of Scott & Scott Architects

Scott & Scott Architects, Whistler Cabin, Whistler, BC 

Cabin Fever
History of the cabin every bit an architectural shape as well as cultural gear upwardly explored through installations, models video, photography as well as more. Curated past times Jennifer M. Volland, Guest Curator, Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator as well as Stephanie Rebick, Associate Curator.

Vancouver Art Gallery
June nine - September 30th, 2018
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7

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