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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 14, 2021 02:00 PM Amsterdam Topic: In Conversation with... Fons Hof, Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy & Bouke de Vries Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6igE6aj4SvyIB1L3pZ5p4g After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Bouke de Vries (Artist ) Born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Bouke de Vries studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, and Central St Martin’s, London. After working with John Galliano, Stephen Jones and Zandra Rhodes, he switched careers and studied ceramics conservation and restoration at West Dean College. Using his skills as a restorer (c.f. Ron Mueck’s model-maker skills), his ‘exploded’ artworks reclaim broken pots after their accidental trauma. He has called it ‘the beauty of destruction’. Instead of reconstructing them, he deconstructs them. Instead of hiding the evidence of this most dramatic episode in the life of a ceramic object, he emphasises their new status, instilling new virtues, new values, and moving their stories forward. Fons Hof (Director @Art Rotterdam) Fons Hof was a gallery owner until 2009 and is co-founder and director of Art Rotterdam, which will have its 22nd edition this July. Together with Johan de Bruijn, he founded the online gallery platform GalleryViewer.com. Additionally, they have recently taken over the photography fair Unseen. Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy (Director @Melly (WdW)) Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is an art curator, an occasional writer and a constant traveler. In January 2018 she started her tenure as director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. Just before heading there, she was the curator of contemporary art, from 2011 to 2017, at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which has headquarters in Caracas and New York. Sofía is board member of Creative Time in New York. In the past, Sofía has been director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and held curatorial positions in New York at Art in General and Americas Society. She has guest-curated exhibitions for The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, MALBA in Buenos Aires, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, among other places. In 2013, Sofía was artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul \| Porto Alegre in Brazil; before that, she was an agent of dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel.

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