The Blue Trees

Artist Name: Konstantin Dimopoulos

Image
Blue tree
Artwork Details
Artist Name: Konstantin Dimopoulos
Artwork Title: The Blue Trees
Neighbourhood
Downtown
Type
Site Work
Primary Materials
Blue Paint
Status
Temporary
Installation Year
2014
Removal Year
2016

The Blue Trees is a Vancouver Biennale initiative launched during the 2009 - 2011 exhibition that has gone on to become an international award-winning public-art installation created in over 14 cities across the world. This art installation brings environmental consciousness and social action together through community participation. Pigmenting trees blue, a colour not naturally associated with trees, temporarily transforms a familiar urban landscape. Trees are largely invisible in our daily lives, and the blue colour is a means of altering perception, a powerful stimulant used to raise social consciousness about the role of trees as the lungs of the world.

This project took place at 511 Royal Avenue, New Westminster.

Temporary (2014-2016)