A34 Sunday, July 20, 2014 - The Morning Star
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Artist returns with a gift from China
from burning pine trees, so the essence was soot with added elements increasing longevity for image making.” A visit to Lei’s studio sealed the resolve to bring his work to Canada, and on Aug. 1 Oakes and Fogarty will welcome both the artist and his work to Headbones. “When we visited his studio, Chak Man Lei served tea, shaving the bowl-shaped pressed leaves, pouring boiling water over the purple sand clay pot so that it passed Morning Star Staff through the tea tray slats to a container Julie Oakes and Richard Fogarty are below; we drank to it,” said Oakes, adding about to share their experience of visiting Lei is looking forward to coming back to China by welcoming a very special guest to Canada, where he lived for many years. their Vernon-based art gallery. Born in Hong Kong, Lei grew up in From April 2 until May 30, Oakes, an artist Macau, where the Cantonese language is who owns Headbones Gallery with Fogarty, spoken, until he was 12 when his famstayed at the Where Where International ily immigrated to Canada. He became a Art Residency in Beijing, China run by Canadian citizen, and attended the Ontario Canadian curator Gordon Laurin. College of Art and Design in Toronto. After Based in a second-floor studio, the duo six years in Vancouver, dealing Chinese went a daily walk through the Project Space antiquities while maintaining his ink art Gallery on the residence’s main floor, where practice, Lei bought a one-way ticket to they encountered the exhibition, Surface Beijing. He learned Mandarin, set up a stuRising, by Chak Man Lei. dio in one of the new art districts, and now Both say they were smitten with Lei’s says, “I feel more Chinese than the Chinese.” work, which is based on ink. Oakes describes Lei’s large black ink “In Chinese art, ink was used for paintings as a record of his immersion in elevated work with an intent to con- the urban, hustle-bustle, fast-pace rush of nect with the spiritual, seated in cal- China today. ligraphy and painting,” said Oakes. “Blurry, with multiple components regis“Traditionally, a landscape was not begun tering as interconnected mass in movement, plein air, but by walking through the land- Lei’s impressions are poignant for a glimpse scape. In solitude, from memory, the paint- of blue sky while living in the immensity of ing was created. Ink came from tung, derived China’s progress is rare, replaced by a smog★ ★ gy obliteration of distance,” she said. Along with Lei’s paintings, ★ Movie Information Line 250-545-0352 • www.vernoncinema.com ★ Headbones is also introducing the work 2910 30th Avenue • Home of the Vernon Film Society ★ Sunday July 20, 2014 ➠➠➠ Thursday July 24, 2014 ★ of Tian Xiaolei, a video artist working ★ ★ with themes of generation and alienFAMILY MATINEES - DAILY ★ EARTH TO ECHO 91 minutes (PG) ★ ation. “His videos explore a gamut of ★ 10:00 AM - Daily ★ changes from birth to death, seren★ RIO 2 102 minutes (G) ★ ity to confusion, ancient to contem11:35 AM - Daily ★ X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 132 minutes (PG) ★ porary, the myths of the country folk ★ 1:20 PM - Daily ★ to the plight of the modern Chinese,” said Oakes. “Refined yet expressive, the ★ EARTH TO ECHO 91 minutes (PG) ★ imagery is beautiful.” 3:40 PM - Daily ★ ★ Small hand-made books and colEVENING SHOWS - NIGHTLY ★ FADING GIGOLO 90 minutes (PG) ★ lages by street artist Ziran will also be ★ 5:15 PM - Nightly ★ displayed. Billed as “councillor of discoveries”, ★ JERSEY BOYS 135 minutes (14A) ★ one of “top 10 art celebrities in China” 6:50 PM - Nightly ★ 22 JUMP STREET 112 minutes (14A) ★ and a “contemporary artist innovating ★ 9:10 PM - Nightly ★ paper cuts” on his personal business Ziran’s work lives up to his name, RENT OUR THEATRE FOR YOUR ★ ★ card, said Oakes. CORPORATE EVENT ★ ★ During their stay at the Where townecinema@shaw.ca ★ ★ Where International Art Residency in • ADULTS $7.75 • SENIOR/CHILD $5.50 • TUESDAY - ALL ★ ★ Beijing, Oakes completed 28 gouaches
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Chak Man Lei is showing his paintings done in ink at Vernon’s Headbones Gallery for the month of August. The artist is visiting from Beijing, China, where his studio is based, to give a talk about his work at the exhibition opening Aug. 1. reflecting the lunar cycle. One of them, entitled Day Here Night There, has been made into a tapestry, which took five months to complete, from Oakes’ original gouache painting to its arrival at Headbones from China where it was woven. “It is a testament to the positive attributes of working with the Chinese, both in the quality of the craftsmanship and the expediency of the process,” she said. Day Here Night There, along with the other paintings that make up the Lunar cycle work completed while on the residency, will be shown in Oakes’ studio at the Aug. 1 opening reception at Headbones, which
starts at 7:30 p.m. Chak Man Lei will speak on his work at the event, and from 8 to 9 p.m., Oakes and Fogarty will give a visual presentation showing sights and art works seen during their stay in China. The opening is open to the public free of charge and is for anyone with an interest or curiosity about contemporary life in China as seen from an art-oriented slant, said Oakes. The exhibition will be up until Sept. 6. Headbones is located 6700 Old Kamloops Rd. and is open from Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 6 p.m., or by appointment. Call 250542-8987 for info.
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