The Museo del Origami in Colonia, Uruguay, celebrates its Third Anniversary!
I am pleased to welcome Peter Engel (USA) and Xiaoxian Huang (China/Spain), who will honor the museum as guest speakers for this year's celebration. Peter's lecture will be on Sunday, March 26 and Xiaoxian's on Sunday, April 2. See the complete program and schedule below. For just U$S 10.00 you will access both conferences and get the recordings after the event. Buy your ticket at Mixily: https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614 <https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614> Your contribution will support the museum's Fund for Art program that helps acquire origami artwork by outstanding creators and interpreters from around the world. For more information on this program and the museum activities, visit www.museodelorigami.org <http://www.museodelorigami.org/> Looking forward to meeting you soon! Laura Rozenberg Director Museo del Origami in Colonia, Uruguay The following is the two-day schedule on Zoom that you will access with your ticket. First Session Lecture by Peter Engel - Unfolding the Universe: Reflections on 50 Years of Paperfolding Sunday, March 26 @ 10:30 am (PST); 1:30 pm (EST), 2:30 pm Buenos Aires; 7:30 pm Spain (or check your timezone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com <https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/>) Peter Engel began creating his own origami designs at the age of 13. A half-century later, he reflects on the lessons he has learned over five decades of paperfolding, re-examining the principles he laid out in his first book, Folding the Universe, published over 30 years ago, and offering new observations on the art form that nourishes his creative spirit to this day. Peter will take us on a journey from the geometrically-inspired designs of his early years through the models that grew out of his travels and professional work in Japan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia to his recent large-scale installations in the San Francisco Bay Area and finally to the chance-inspired bird designs he is at work on today. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear Peter in dialogue with his younger self! About the speaker: Peter Engel is an architect in Berkeley, California with a practice specializing in sustainable design, schools, museums, and affordable housing. He is the author of Origami from Angelfish to Zen and Folding the Universe. Engel has exhibited his origami artwork and sculptures at Gettysburg College Art Gallery, the Asian Art Museum and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, and Seian University of Art and Design in Japan. Buy your ticket at Mixily: https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614 <https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614> Second Session Lecture by Xiaoxian Huang - Zhe Zhi – History of Paperfolding in China Sunday, April 2 @ 10:30 am (PST); 1:30 pm (EST); 2:30 pm Buenos Aires; 7:30 pm Spain (or check your timezone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com <https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/>) Xiaoxian Huang is a leading researcher on the history of paperfolding in China. She will show examples of the earliest known fragments of paper kept in Chinese museums. She will tell us how “paper” and “silk” share similar writing characters. We'll see a video of military armors that were constructed and folded in paper. We'll also learn how calligraphers wrote on pre-folded paper hanging in the air. We'll see examples of book binding and the earliest known examples of representational and utilitarian foldings used by different ethnic groups. This is a unique opportunity to learn about a topic that rarely comes to light, so please join us to enjoy Xiaoxian presentation! About the speaker: XiaoXian Huang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. She studied Atmospheric Sciences in Nanjing University. She has interests in many fields, not only science, but also art, history and culture, which led to her interest in studying and collecting material about the history of paperfolding in China. She also folds and design her own models. So I think it is interesting and necessary to discover the paper folding history in China. Buy your ticket at Mixily: https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614 <https://www.mixily.com/event/1595784226415839614>
