Ed Pien Articles etc.
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Delgado, Jérôme. La Presse, La lutte contre le sida se poursuit , mars 2005
Ed Pien, Pien unveils Celestial Bodies , the latest of his magical, room-sized drawing works, on Nov. 27. (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston.)
Just My Imagination, Nov 6-Feb 27, 2005, Museum London (Ontario)
"Curated by London artists David Merritt and Kim Moodie, this exhibition presents current work in the expanded field of contemporary drawing in Canada. It brings together 14 artists whose recent work reflects a rigorous relationship with drawing-based practices. The exhibition proposes an understanding of drawing as an autonomous and fundamentally open material practice. As such, Just My Imagination focuses on representational work, though not work which abides in closed or singular spaces. Implicit in this project is an understanding of drawing as a self-sufficient practice – one no longer placed at the edges of traditional media categories, but rather one which appears to thrive in an environment less bound to disciplinary divides. This vitality is represented through a variety of approaches by artists who use traditional media such as pen and ink or use drawing as a foundation to embrace new forms of production such as installation, interactive digital work, performance, sculpture or video.
The exhibition features work by artists from across Canada including: Stephen Andrews (Toronto), Sheila Butler (London), Lucie Chan (Halifax), Cathy Daley (Toronto), Raphaelle de Groot (Montréal), Michelle Gay (Toronto), Luanne Martineau (Victoria), Jason McLean (Vancouver), Alison Norlen (Saskatoon), Ed Pien (Toronto), John Scott (Toronto), Candice Tarnowski (Winnipeg), David Tomas (Montreal), and Anna Torma (Baie Verte, NB). Just My Imagination is organized by Museum London and MMB Collective."
Jérôme Fortin, Michel de Broin, Ed Pien, and Johannes Zits, Les Panoramiques, Thursday, October 28, 2004 19h00 O PATRO VYS, 356 Mont-Royal Est.
"For its benefit event, Optica has invited thirty artists from Canada and around the world to create a series of photographs with panoramic disposible cameras. These photographs will be revealed the 28th of October during a special evening hosted by Pierre Beaudoin held at O PATRO VYS.
As of now, Optica has invited thirty artists from Canada and around the world to create a series of photographs with panoramic disposable cameras. These photographs will be revealed the 28th of October during a special evening hosted by Pierre Beaudoin held at O PATRO VYS.
Check www.optica.ca for details, or contact Optica, un centre d'art contemporain at 514 874 1666."
Ed Pien Tracing night, and Susie Major Small Wars. Saint Mary`s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. April 24 to June 6, 2004.
Both exhibitions open with a public reception on Friday 23 April at 8pm. Ed Pien and Susie Major will hold artists talks at Saint Mary`s University Art Gallery on Saturday 24 April at 2 pm. A curitorial talk with Tila Kellman will be held in the gallery on Saturday 29 May at 2pm.
Pluie, by Sylvain Émard (Set design by Ed Pien), a production de Sylvain Émard Danse, en première mondiale, March 4-13, usinec
La Biennale de Montréal 2002, Canada Paper Art Hamburg, Things we believe, PRÜSS & OCHS GALLERY BERLIN, Germany
Ed Pien, Essay by Robin Laurence, Foreword by Jann L.M. Bailey and Keith Wallace
Ed Pien's drawings are immensely engaging because they are nourished by rich cultural traditions and because they literally pull the viewer in. References to Chinese and Italian manuscripts are striking and Pien's concern with life, death and life after death register an acute cultural hybridity. In the West we are most familiar with Dante's Inferno but the depiction of suffering and of the desire for ascendancy of the spirit is equally prevalent in Chinese Buddhist art. Pien's creations, with their circularity and repetition are at once ceremonial and playful and themselves hang between Eastern and Western traditions. His work has been exhibited at the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, La Biennale de Montréal 2000 and The Drawing Centre and the Asian American Arts Centre, both in New York. Co-published with Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery. (from ABC Art Books Canada website)
Contemporary Art Galery / Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) ISBN 0-920751-81-4 $20.00
Ed Pien, joue et gagne, article de Jérôme Delgado, dans La Presse - 6 octobre 2002 p. E6
Links
http://www.ciac.ca/biennale2002
http://www.robertbirchgallery.com
http://www.abcartbookscanada.com