Ed
Pien
Ed
Pien
Ed Pien: In a Realm of Others
Gordon Hatt, Tila Kellman & Linda Jansma
Ed Pien's integration of drawing into an installation format has created a new vocabulary for this elemental medium. His exuberant drawing style with images drawn from both Chinese and European sources has given new life to a traditionally formal endeavor. Here he explores the world of ghosts with drawings, dramatic lighting, projections, soundscapes and the videotaped telling of actual encounters. While Pien's work calls up any number of mythic, ritualistic and actual journeys and while his images evoke violence, suffering and deprivation, the visitor walks away from the multi-sensorial experience feeling uplifted and elated. Ed Pien has exhibited widely, notably at The Drawing Center (New York), Overslag and Eindhoven (Amsterdam), The Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris) and the Middlesbrough Art Gallery (England). Co-published with Cambridge Galleries.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Robert McLaughlin Gallery (01/2006)
96 pp 30 col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 1-894699-32-7 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Bug City
Gary Genosko, Doug Lewis & Mary Reid
Artists look at the place of insects in contemporary art as well as at issues around urban ecology and public health that this presence reveals. Bug City also explores how, inspired by insect biology, entomology and technology have joined forces. Thirty artists show that bugs display a special kind of creativity and that the usual distinctions between nature and culture and helpful and harmful species can be questioned. Artists include Bill Burns, Fastwurms, Eldon Garnet, Ed Pien and Ed Ruscha. Includes a CD Rom.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (01/2006) 48 pp 26 col. ill. 5.5 x 5.25 in softcover with CD-Rom 0-88915-233-0 $12.95 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Just My Imagination
Daina Augaitis, Louise Déry, David Liss et al
Publication of a cross-country exhibition dedicated to the recent resurgence of drawing. No longer shunted to the edges of contemporary art, drawing is reconfiguring itself as a self-sufficient practice that thrives on its own or even in an interdisciplinary environment. The work of the 14 artists presented here testifies to drawing's ability to incorporate other media and disciplines, including installation and performance. Includes essays and statements by some of the country's most prominent curators, notably Daina Augaitis (Vanvouver Art Gallery), Louise Déry (Galerie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal) and David Liss (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art). With work by Stephen Andrews, Sheila Butler, Cathy Daley, Raphaëlle de Groot, Ed Pien and more.
Museum London (2005) 72 pp 46 col.ill. 10 x 8.5 in softcover 1-897215-00-2 $14.95 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
Ed Pien : Deep Waters
Christophe Domino
Pien's powerful drawing-based installations are unique among contemporary artistic practice. In the Spring of 2002 he took over Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris and, augmenting his drawings with lighting and video projections, bathed entire rooms in a world at once fanciful and grotesque. Domino describes the experience. "Deep Waters has a tactile presence that grabs the visitor, not through terror but by inciting the gaze... Pien's monsters belong to a genealogy that runs from Roman grotesque and to Goya while passing through the Symbolists. Pien's Asian heritage is thrown in with references to the line in calligraphy, his animal repertory and shadow theater." This most recent in a growing body of publications dedicated to the Toronto-based artist is testament to a flourishing international reputation. In English and French.
Catalogue d'une exposition tenue au Centre culturel canadien à Paris au printemps 2002. Le travaille de Pein, une conjoncture du dessin et installation et augmenté par les projections vidéo, crée un monde à la fois féerique et monstrueux. Selon Domino, les dessins sont d'une présence tactile qui "prend le visiteur dans une sollicitation immédiate, non au travers de l'autorité de la terreur mais par l'incitation à voir. Les monstres de Pien appartiennent à une généalogie du monstre qui va du grotesque de la période romaine à Bosch et qui passe par les Symbolists." En français et anglais.
Canadian Cultural Centre / Centre culturel canadien, Paris (2002) 74 pp 31 ill. coul. 25x17 cm./9.5x6.5 in. 1896940226 $29.00
Ed Pien
Robin Laurence
The first major publication on the work of this singular artist. Ed Pein'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 Pein'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. Pein's creations, with their circularity and repetition are at once ceremonial and playful and themselves hang between Eastern and Western traditions. Born in Taiwan, Ed Pein lived in Vancouver before moving to Toronto. He has 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.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 46 pp 10 col. ill. 10x6.5 in. hardcover 0920751814 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
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