Photo gallery: Riha’s recycled bears kick off LUNA festival weekend
LUNA fest weekend opened with a show at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. The RVAC exhibit runs until Oct. 19.
The LUNA festival weekend kicked off with an opening at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre on Friday, Sept. 28.
The main gallery featured Revelstoke artist Zuzanna Riha’s paintings and life-size bear sculptures made from recycled bike tires — and bikes. For more on the show, see the captions in the gallery below.
The exhibit at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre features three exhibits: Zuzana Riha: Mist and Mystery, Agathe Bernard: Immersion, and Julie Kozek: Into the Woods. Drop by the gallery until Oct. 19 to take in the show.
The LUNA festival main event is this Saturday, Sept. 29 in downtown Revelstoke from 6 p.m. to midnight. Click here for the map, or pick one up at many locations downtown.
Drop by the gallery until Oct. 19 to take in the show.
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- Former gallery director Victoria Strange and current assistant director Kate Shea were on hand for the show. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- A detail from one of Riha’s paintings, which were actually designed to interact with 3D glasses. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- The second gallery featured photographs taken by Agathe Bernard, during the creation of the Carving Landscapes documentary about Mary Vaux, a pioneering geographer and artist who explored the Illecillewaet Glacier in the late 1800s, providing photographs that have been valuable in the study of the declining glacier. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- One of Riha’s larger scale paintings. This one’s still available! Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- A detail of Spirit Soar, one of Riha’s creations. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- Jackie Rhind and Sage Beaumont take in Zuzanna Riha’s bear sculpture made from recycled bike tires at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre on Sept. 28. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- The bears had claws made of bike chains, teeth made from recycled metal parts, and even art poop. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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- Zuzanna Riha and daughter Taya with the prone bear, which came complete with recycled bear droppings. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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