Art of Seeing: Decoding Chinese Contemporary Art
Shanghai Galleries offer an art workshop aimed at
October 17, 31, November 7 & 14
ART+ SHANGHAI GALLERY PRESS RELEASE
Class Format
The first hour and a half of the class will be a workshop taught by Sheila Greenspan, the remaining half hour will be a short informal talk by the gallerist with a question and answer session. After class we’ll continue the discussion over a tasty meal at a nearby restaurant.
Topics
Sheila Greenspan will work with participants to help them develop their analytical skills so that they have the ability to talk about and understand art without any prior knowledge of a particular art tradition. The class is very dynamic and involves a great deal of group work and participation.
The gallerists will provide background on contemporary art and collecting. Rebecca Catching will give a talk on the history of the Shanghai Biennale. Steven Harris will explore trends and movements in photography and talk about the issues of collecting photography including editions and authenticity. Diana Freundl will explore crossover between art and design with a focus on collaborative exhibition projects that tackle urban sustainability. And David Chan will discuss exhibition making and curatorial practice.
Instructors
Sheila has an M.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. She was the Head of Education, Outreach and Public Programming for the Art Gallery of Hamilton for 15 years and then was similarly the Head of Education, Outreach and Public Programming for the Art Gallery of Ontario. Currently she teaches at Dundas Valley School of Art in Dundas.
Rebecca Catching
Director OV Gallery, Rebecca has a background in East Asian studies and art history and worked as an arts & entertainment editor for local culture magazine that’s Shanghai for five years, while freelancing for a number of international publications such as Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, Flash Art and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Rebecca’s latest curatorial projects include “Make-Over” an exploration the great renovation of Shanghai in advance of the Expo and the issues of history, image and face which accompany it.
Steven Harris
Steven Harris is the founder and director of m97 Gallery in Shanghai. A former photographer with a journalism and Chinese studies background, Steven has lived in China for most of the past ten years. He founded m97 Gallery in 2006 as a dedicated platform for contemporary photography, and it now represents over 30 Chinese and international artists, including world-renowned Michael Wolf, Nadav Kander, Han Lei, Wang Ningde, and Jiang Zhi, as well as young new talent such as Chen Wei and Zeng Han, to name a few.
Art director of Art + Shanghai Gallery, Diana has an academic background in comparative religion and philosophy with graduate studies in journalism. She was a reporter covering arts and features for the Taipei Times from 2002 to 2005, after which she moved to Beijing to study at the Tsinghua University Academy of Arts and Design. She relocated to Shanghai and joined the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai curatorial department from 2006 to 2008. She continues to correspond for Japanese bilingual magazine ART iT, among others.
David Chan
Former director of Shanghai Gallery of Art, David Ho Yeung Chan is now the Director of Osage. Mr. Chan, who has been the director at the Osage since February 2010, has extensive experiences in the contemporary art world. An MA graduate from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, his noteworthy curatorial projects include Para/Site: Open Work at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Art and An Unexpected Turn of Events – Chen Shaoxiong & Tsuyoshi Ozawa at Osage. Chan is widely published, with critical essays in publications such as Flash Art International, Yishu-Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Documents on Architecture.
Times: Class 5-7pm, Dinner 7-9pm
Venues:
Sunday, November 7 Osage, Osage Shanghai 320 Xingguo Lu, by Hunan Lu
Language: English
Registration Deadline: October 12, 2010 for the first one session or 4 sessions.
Class Size: 15-20 people
Contact Person: Agnes Cohade, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
