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How is the stage lit? Who hangs the paintings? What happens in the dish pit? Behind the Scenes is a recurring series highlighting the important and often invisible work happening at arts and culture venues across Winnipeg. Yatsevych, 52, is WAG-Qaumajuq’s conservator. His job — and it’s a big one — is to clean, maintain, preserve, repair and sometimes even restore artworks.
Today, he’s taking another good look at the elaborate 1991 sculpture by Canadian assemblage artist Kim Adams that uses HO-scale (toy-train size) models to create teeny-tiny everyday scenes that compose much larger worlds. “There’s an enormous number of little parts,” Yatsevych says. And he has to look at all of them.
, which has been on view on the mezzanine level of the WAG building since Decemb.
