[March 6]Paul Chan Poster Launch
March 06, 2008
Centre A , Western Front Exhibitions, and The Fillip Review collaborate to commission a new poster by Brooklyn-based artist and activist Paul Chan
Poster Launch
Thursday, March 6th 6:30-10:00
Venue: Centre A, 2 West Hastings Street Tel: 604-683-3826
6:30: Screening of Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy followed by brief discussion
8:30: Reception
Western Front Exhibitions, Centre A and The Fillip Review, are pleased to announce the release of a poster by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Chan Included as an insert in Fillip 7, the posters are also available at all collaborating venues for $5.00 each. Untitled (Behold, I show you a mystery), printed in an edition of 2000 copies, relates to the artist’s recent series of works, The 7 Lights (2005-07), digital animations that explore themes of religion, utopian thought, and their manifestations and transformations within contemporary life and follows other print projects by the artist, notably “Baghdad Snapshot Action” (February 2002 and April 2003).
As one of the most significant young artists to emerge from North America in recent years, Chan has achieved much critical and international acclaim for his video and installation works that explore analogue and digital drawings with philosophical reflections on artistic form, politics, religion, sex and their social effects. Paul Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and grew up in Nebraska. He graduated with an MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from Bard College in 2002, having earned his BFA in Video Digital Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Chan’s teaching activities have included lecturing at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania and the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. Chan lives and works in New York. His digital animations were previously exhibited at the Whitney Biennial 2006 in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Para/site Art Space in Hong Kong. Chan had a solo exhibition in the summer of 2007 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, followed by solo presentations in 2008 at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the New Museum in New York. In 2007 the Western Front hosted the first solo-exhibition of Chan’s work in Canada.
This poster is a part of the Western Front Exhibition programme’s ongoing series of artist projects in print. Past commissions have included posters by artists including Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Tim lee, Ron Terada, and Igor Santizo, and texts and an artist book by Hadley+Maxwell. In 2008 the Western Front will introduce a series of pocket-sized publications, which transcribe conversations between artists and respondents of their choice, designed by Derek Barnett. The first will feature Afghan artist Lida Abdul in conversation with Stanford Art Historian Pamela M Lee and will be released in Spring 2008.
For More information
Contact: Makiko Hara
Makiko.hara[at]centrea.org
Tel: 604-683-8326
Poster Launch
Thursday, March 6th 6:30-10:00
Venue: Centre A, 2 West Hastings Street Tel: 604-683-3826
6:30: Screening of Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy followed by brief discussion
8:30: Reception
Western Front Exhibitions, Centre A and The Fillip Review, are pleased to announce the release of a poster by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Chan Included as an insert in Fillip 7, the posters are also available at all collaborating venues for $5.00 each. Untitled (Behold, I show you a mystery), printed in an edition of 2000 copies, relates to the artist’s recent series of works, The 7 Lights (2005-07), digital animations that explore themes of religion, utopian thought, and their manifestations and transformations within contemporary life and follows other print projects by the artist, notably “Baghdad Snapshot Action” (February 2002 and April 2003).
As one of the most significant young artists to emerge from North America in recent years, Chan has achieved much critical and international acclaim for his video and installation works that explore analogue and digital drawings with philosophical reflections on artistic form, politics, religion, sex and their social effects. Paul Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and grew up in Nebraska. He graduated with an MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from Bard College in 2002, having earned his BFA in Video Digital Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Chan’s teaching activities have included lecturing at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania and the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. Chan lives and works in New York. His digital animations were previously exhibited at the Whitney Biennial 2006 in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Para/site Art Space in Hong Kong. Chan had a solo exhibition in the summer of 2007 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, followed by solo presentations in 2008 at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the New Museum in New York. In 2007 the Western Front hosted the first solo-exhibition of Chan’s work in Canada.
This poster is a part of the Western Front Exhibition programme’s ongoing series of artist projects in print. Past commissions have included posters by artists including Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Tim lee, Ron Terada, and Igor Santizo, and texts and an artist book by Hadley+Maxwell. In 2008 the Western Front will introduce a series of pocket-sized publications, which transcribe conversations between artists and respondents of their choice, designed by Derek Barnett. The first will feature Afghan artist Lida Abdul in conversation with Stanford Art Historian Pamela M Lee and will be released in Spring 2008.
For More information
Contact: Makiko Hara
Makiko.hara[at]centrea.org
Tel: 604-683-8326
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