Place: ART64 Gallery (www.art64.com.cn) Cave, No. 64, Shamian Street, Guangzhou
Tel: 020-81215176
Dates: 6 & 7 March
Activities: 7 March from 2.00 pm till 4.00 pm - introduction to his work by Olivier Deprez followed by a discussion with the public
Olivier Deprez Graduated from St-Luc in 1992, an art school known for the quality of its comic strip section, Olivier Deprez quickly constitutes with a few friends a group of cartoonists and a publisher (Frémok, first known as Fréon). In 2003 he publishes an adaptation in wood engraving of Franz Kafka's novel The Castle. The same year he also publishes a set of engravings to accompany a cycle of poems of Jan Baetens with Maisonneuve&Larose, Construction d'une ligne TGV. He has recently created a touring performance the peregrinations of which inspire a future book and has worked with Adolpho Avril, a mentally ill patient, on a long story in wood engraving the first fragment of which is dued to be published in a collective work in October 2008 by the CEC "La Hesse" and Frémok. Olivier Deprez works currently on the creation of a comic strip scenario about the life and work of the architect Tadao Andô.
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