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Pop-up exhibit in Charlottetown's Confederation Centre of the Arts breathes life into inflatable sculpture

Michael Robar · National affairs reporter | Posted: Oct. 2, 2020, 3:31 p.m. | Updated: Oct. 3, 2020, 9 a.m. | 1 Min Read
Evan Furness, visual arts educator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery is dwarfed by a limited run exhibit of Quebecois artist Alexis Bellavance's Compression-depression, an inflatable sculpture originally meant to be part of Art in the Open. Taking up most of the Sobey Gallery, the exhibit is open for viewing until Oct. 4.
Evan Furness, visual arts educator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery is dwarfed by a limited run exhibit of Quebecois artist Alexis Bellavance's Compression-depression, an inflatable sculpture originally meant to be part of Art in the Open. - Michael Robar

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Evan Furness, visual arts educator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery is dwarfed by a limited run exhibit of Quebecois artist Alexis Bellavance's Compression-depression, an inflatable sculpture originally meant to be part of Art in the Open.

Evan Furness, visual arts educator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery ponders the immensity of Quebecois artist Alexis Bellavance's Compression-depression exhibit, an inflatable sculpture originally meant to be part of Art in the Open. Taking up most of the Sobey Gallery, the exhibit is open for viewing until Oct. 4. - Michael Robar
Evan Furness, visual arts educator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery ponders the immensity of Quebecois artist Alexis Bellavance's Compression-depression exhibit, an inflatable sculpture originally meant to be part of Art in the Open. Taking up most of the Sobey Gallery, the exhibit is open for viewing until Oct. 4. - Michael Robar

 

Taking up most of the Sobey Gallery, the exhibit is open for viewing until Oct. 4.

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