From the dump
to gallery walis

WV ARTIST GIVES NEW MEANING TO RECYCLING

ARBAGE HAS

become the industrial

world’s greatest
preoccupation. What to do
with it, where to put it, from
the moment those boitles
and tins hit our refuse cans,
garbage becomes a probiem
for most of us.

While we agonize over how to
eliminate rubbish, one West Van-
couver artist can’t get enough of it.

Davide Pan, a 24-year-old Emily
Carr student, has found a unique
way to re-route junk headed for
the dump onto gallery walls. It
could be said that Pan has raised
recycling to an ‘‘art.””

At the Third Annual Granville
Island Great Garbage Can Art
Contest in September, Pan's
metallic sculpture won first prize
out of 18 competing pieces.

For the past few years Pan has
worked exclusively with recycled

EVELYN
JACOB

spotlight feacure

materials —- many of his creations
were once functioning garbage
cans, oil barrels and car hoods.

3E - Wednesday, November 29 , 1989 - North Shace News

College choirs sing

AFTER THEIR successtul
November concert, the Capilano
College Singers and the Capilano
College Community Choir return
Friday, Dec. 8 to St. Andrews
United Church in Nerth Van-
couver for their Christmas concert.

The first part of the program will
include Renaissance to contem-
porary choral pieces, from the
sacred to the folk genre, including
pieces by Canadian composers
Healey Willan, Jon Washburn,
Stephen Chatman and imant
Raminsh.

Director Lars Kaario then leads a
combined 100-voice choir in the

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THE PRO Nova String Quartet
presents a concert featuring the
music of Malipiero and Rispetti on
Sunday, Dec. 3 at Presentation
House in Ne:th Vancouver.

Joining the quartet is guest artist
trombonist Diana Basso. The con-

second part of the program
through a selection of Christmas
songs and _ sing-along traditional
carols with audience participation.
Organist Grant Gwynn will pro-
vide accompaniment.

The concert starts at 8 p.m. and
tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for
seniors and children, with pro-
ceeds going to Capilano Coilege
scholarships and choral programs.
St. Andrews Church is located at
the corner of St. Georges and 10th
Streets in North Vancouver. For
information phone the Capilano
College music department at
984-4951.

String quartet performs

cert includes a work for solo
trombone and Persichetti’s
Serenade No. 6 for trombone, vio-
la and cello, as well as a newly-
commissioned work.

Tickets may be reserved in ad-
vance by phoning Presentation
House at 986-1351.

Local artists featured on cards

NORTH SHORE artist Kiff Holland
is one of 10 B.C. artists featured in
this year’s offering of Save the
Children Fund Christmas cards.
This is the third year Holland has
donated a design.

Other participzting artists are:
Peter Ewart, Fred Forster, Diana
Durrand, Ted Harrison, Antonia
Lanik, Katherine Surridge and
Fenwick Lansdowne.

Save the Children Fund of B.C.,
celebrating 70 years of service in
1989, works to make a better life
for children and their families in
developing countries.

Funds raised through the sale of

the cards and tags are matched by
the Canadian International Devel-

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opment Agency (CIDA) and are
used to support 44 projects in 18
overseas countries.

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TWENTY-FOUR.-year-old Davide Pan — pictured here at home with

Finding materials hasn't been a
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some of his ‘‘irash-can art’ — is one of the local art community's

problem. “Whenever | walk Give your child the best with

around | keep my eyes to the road
for bits of metal, washers — any-
thing t could use,” he says.

Pan’s initial attraction to the
junk medium wasn’t romantic — it
was just plain cheap. ‘| couldn’t
afford to buy new materials. | go
to Value Village and pick up old
framed paintings and paint on top
of thern,’’ he says. ‘‘Besides, I've
always believed that something
that’s already had a life to it can
only help you.”

Now a more pressing reason has
him working with coat hangers,
bits of glass, nails, beads and other
debris full-time. Says Pan: “There
is so much garbage being created.
It’s better off or someone's wall
thaninaland “

Pan’‘s primitive-looking masks
have an ecological theme: his oil
barrel masks, for instance, symbol-
ize chemical waste.

His concern for the environment
has him constantly thinking about
how he can personally contribute
to a cleaner planet. Recently he
decided to stop using spray paint
because “I felt the chemicals
aren't good for the environment.”’
As well, he is careful not to let
large amounts of carbon escape
when he uses a torch to cut
designs into metal.

Pan says that primitive art has
had a subconscious influence on
his work, “What t like about
primitive art,”” he says, ‘is its
direct approach, Quite often the
object matters less than the
message the artist is trying to pres-
ent.”

Burn in Vicenza, laly, Pan was
trained at Venice’s Academy of
Fine Arts and later at Capilano
College ia North Vancouver,
where he created his first piece of
garbage can art.

His work has since appeared in
group exhibitions in Vancouver,
Calgary, Ontario, Washington,
Oregon, Italy and japan, and in

latest rising stars.

assistant director of We're No
Angels sought a riask here while
filming.

His lates? project, a totem pole
made out of an oil barrel and
remnants of modecn sacicty —

solo exhibits at Vancouver's Pitt
Galleries, Cafe 76. and Camfari.
His masks — large grinning
sculptures with big, spiked teeth,
reminiscent of the jagged moun-
tains of his hometown — decorate
a number of local cafes.

Working with recycled materials
has put Pan’s work in vogue. Last
month he mailed a sculpture to
the wife of Kiss lead singer Gene
Simmons in Beverly Hills, and the

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