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"Chinese Maximalism" exhibition extended through Feb. 7
"Chinese Maximalism," a groundbreaking exhibition of more than 65 works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists, will remain on view in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, through Feb. 7.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Organized by the UB Art Gallery and the Millennium Museum in Beijing, the exhibition is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between an American and a Chinese museum. The UB Art Gallery is the only U.S. venue for this two-stop exhibition, which first opened March 15, 2003, in the Millennium Museum in Beijing.
UB Art Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call 645-6912.
Baryshnikov to perform second show in CFA
Due to popular demand, the Center for the Arts will present a second performance of "Solos With Piano or not…An Evening of Music and Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pianist Pedja Muzijevic" at 8 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
Baryshnikov and Muzijevic also will perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 in the CFA.
The program will include works by American and European choreographers, among them Lucinda Childs, who has created a new solo, "Opus One," for Baryshnikov; and Ruth Davidson Hahn, a former principal dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Group, who has set her solo to Robert Schumann's "Whims, Why? Fable" from "Fantasy Pieces Op. 12."
Tickets for both shows are $55, $50, $45 and $35 and are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Quebec architect to lecture
Quebec architect Gilles Saucier, who currently has models of his work on display in the Dyett Gallery in the School of Architecture and Planning, will give a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus.
A view of the Saucier and Perrotte exhibition in the Dyett Gallery.
PHOTO: N. ROZZI
The Dyett exhibition, "Saucier + Perrotte Architects: Childhood Landscape/Topographic Unfoldings," features the distinctive work of Saucier and fellow Quebec architect André Perrotte. It presents both working and presentation models of the architects' projects in an attempt to reveal the Saint-Laurent landscape as the key inspiration of the works.
Against a panoramic backdrop, the exhibition is organized around three elements of the design process—the journey of memory, the eye and the hand, and the gaze upon the completed work—enabling visitors to share the intimacy of the architects' thinking, their process and the original foundations on which the works are built.
Among the architects' projects featured in the exhibition are the Faculty of Design of the University of Montreal, the Museum of Video Arts, the First Nations Garden Pavilion, the University of Toronto CCIT in Mississauga and the university's New College Residence.
The work of Saucier and Perrotte has received numerous professional awards, including the Governor General Medal (2002), two Canadian Architect Awards (2000, 2001), Prix d'Excellence from the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (2000) and the Orange Award from Sauvons Montréal (2000).
The exhibition, which will be on display through Feb. 20 in the Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall on the South Campus, is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the UB School of Architecture and Planning, and the Canadian-American Studies Committee at UB.