Douglas Coupland (Daniel Faria)
Although
Douglas Coupland is best known as the author of books like
Generation X and
Life After God, his career as a visual artist has been even longer. His new show at the
Daniel Faria Gallery, “Welcome to the Twenty-First Century,” sees him crossing back into the Canadiana that has become a running issue in his work. Unlike his recent, decorative and largely inoffensive installation at the McMichael, which transformed the heads of Painters Eleven into a candy coloured constellation, these new works are darker. In fact, they are some of the most subtly bleak works I’ve seen lately.
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