Shimabuku

Terminus de la traverse (Lévis)

 

Emblematic of Shimabuku’s playful interventions, a curious flock of swan-like pedal boats comes out of Regart in the hopes of continuing its journey to the river.

 


Shimabuku, Swan goes to the sea, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet

 

Shimabuku

(Japan)

Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree from the Osaka College of Art (1990) and a bachelor’s degree from the San Francisco Art Institute (1992). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan, the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan. He has taken part in the Venice, Lyon, Taipei, Sharjah, Kitākyūsyū, Sydney, Busan, Kobe, São Paulo, and Havana biennales. His works are held by the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Fonds régional d’art contemporain Île-de-France, and the Museum of Fine Arts Bern in Bern, Switzerland.

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Terminus de la traverse (Lévis)

Société de transport de Lévis

Lévis

 

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