Michael Markowsky at Access Gallery (Vancouver) October 2011

This short video documents the installation of Michael Markowsky's piece "Errol and George: Two Sad Swashbucklers" at Access Gallery in Vancouver, Canada (September 10 to October 22, 2011)

It was part of an exhibition entitled "Once it is a story it remains one or fades..." featuring Markowsky's work as well as Lyndl Hall, Evan Lee and Herman Kao and Kyla Mallett. The exhibition was curated by Shaun Dacey (Director of Access Gallery) to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Gallery.

Michael Markowsky's two giant paintings (18x10 feet each) rest upon three television monitors that feature documentation of the making of the paintings: from the original boat and car rides that produced the drawings from which the paintings were inspired. The centre monitor shows footage of Markowsky carrying the giant canvases around Vancouver on a roll, and then unfurling the canvas on the beach, in parks, on the grass in front of his house, etc., and then painting upon the canvas with oil colours.

This work was originally presented (in a very different configuration) as part of Markowsky's solo exhibition at Access Gallery in 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.michaelmarkowsky.com

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