Attended the preview for Douglas Coupland‘s The National Portrait at Ottawa Art Gallery‘s Alma Duncan Theatre.
The National Portrait which in partnership with Canadian Fashion retailer Simons, the artist has created a 3D portrait of Canadians in the twenty-first century.
Coupland’s ambitious large-scale installation is made from hundreds of 3D-printed portraits scanned voluntarily from members of the public at Simons store locations on a cross-country tour. This crowd-sourced artistic initiative ran from July 2015 until April 2017, and included stops in nine cities: Quebec City, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Mississauga, Ottawa, Calgary, Yellowknife and Halifax. Each participant received a hand-sized version of their own 3D printed bust.
Got to meet Douglas Coupland and let’s say I got so star-struck
He is Canada’s literary icon with famous books like Generation X, Shampoo Planet and JPod.
Very nice and funny is all I can!
The exhibition runs from June 29, 2018 – August 19, 2018.
Douglas Coupland’s The National Portrait @ OAG
