Outside the Exhibition Hall

I.Topic："Cut and Paste"

Artist：Mary Evan
Time：16:00-17:30 05/09/2008
Venue：Ping Pong Bar, No.60, Xianlie Dongheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou (behind Xinghai Music College, Tel: 020-28296300)

Mary Evan will talk about her own art practice from starting out as a painter to ending up making spatial installations. She will also share her experience of art school and studying in Britain.

Topic："Cut and Paste"
Artist：Mary Evan
Time：14:30-16:30 07/09/2008
Venue：Ping Pong Space, No.60, Xianlie Dongheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou (behind Xinghai Music College, Tel: 020-28296300)

The workshop is about cutting and printing. The term "cut and paste" often refers to computer use these days. This approach is important to Mary in her work because it retains a hand-crafted aesthetic in this ultra-modern world. It's about getting back to basics and enjoying materials and processes in making art. Mary suggests participants come to the workshop with an image or drawing.

Please send e-mail to pingpongspace@126.com before 05/09/2008.

II.Topic：The Benin Project

Artist：Uriel Orlow
Time：16:30-18:00 07/09/2008
Venue：Ping Pong Bar, No.60, Xianlie Dongheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou(behind Xinghai Music College, Tel: 020-28296300)

Uriel will talk about his work "Benin Project", its context and the questions it touches upon: issues around post-colonial restitution, tradition versus modernity, globalization, the artist as researcher, and history in the present - etc.

Artists Profile:

Mary Evan was born in Lagos, Nigeria 1963. Lives and works in London. She graduated with a MA in Fine Art from University of London, Goldsmiths College in 1989 and completed post graduate studies from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 1993. Mary is currently Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins School of Art, London.

Uriel Orlow (born 1973 Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in London. He studied art and philosophy in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and The Slade School of Art as well as at the University of Geneva; he graduated in 2002 with a Doctorate in Fine Art. Embracing multiple approaches and crossing diverse media – including video, photography, drawing and printmaking – Orlow's art investigates where history, place and memory intersect and resonate in the present, whether in archived documents, the physical body or in geographical locations themselves. Orlow exhibits internationally and his work is in public and private collections as well as published in monographs. In 2008 he received a Swiss Art Award from the Swiss ministry of culture at Art Basel.

Source: British Council China

Editor: Chen Minjie