Blooming Flowers in Flourishing Age – Exhibition of Elaborate Bird-and-flower Paintings Collected by NAMOC
Dates: 25.1.2018-4.3.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Hall 2、3、4、5、6、7, National Art Museum of China
Address: 1 Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Website: official web page
The exhibition is held to celebrate the triumphant convening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and highlight the prosperous times. It is also to celebrate the traditional Spring Festival. The exhibition will sort out and display more than 100 elaborate bird-and-flower paintings collected by NAMOC. They are shown in three parts on the basis of the ages. The first part is bird-and-flower paintings from the Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing dynasties. The second part is representative bird-and-flower paintings of modern painters. The third part is masterpieces of bird-and-flower paintings of contemporary painters.
Magnificence of the Dream of the Red Chamber – Exhibition of Sun Wen’s Illustration for Dream of the Red Chamber
Dates: 26.1.2018-25.4.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: The 13th and the 14th exhibition hall, Hebei Museum
Address: 4 Dongda Road, Shijiazhuang, China
Website: official web page
Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, composed by Cao Xueqin in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty, is one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels. Being the culmination of Chinese classic literature, it is known as the pinnacle of Chinese fiction and the encyclopedia of the Chinese society.
The picture album of the Dream of the Red Chamber collected in the Museum of Lushun, is composed by Sun Wen, a painter lived in the late Qing Dynasty in Tangshan, Hebei Province, who spent 36 years to complete the 230 illustrations that includes all 120 episodes of the novel, with more than 3,700 figures. The painting technics used by Sun Wen was a mix of the Chinese traditional green-color landscape paintings and Gongbi painting(characterized by fine brushwork, close attention to detail and bright colors), and also inspired by western oil painting, which has delicately presented the landscapes and figures, architectures, plants and flowers and furnitures.
Panorama of the main scenery of Dream of the Red ChamberChapter 9 Devoted Friends Join the Clan School Mud-Slinging Boys Brawl in the ClassroomChapter 70 Daiyu Starts Another Poetry Club Peach-Blossom Society Xiangyun Dashes Off a Poem on Willow CatkinsChapter 50 In Reed Snow Cottage Girls Vie in Composing a Collective Poem In Warm Scented Arbour Fine Lantern Riddles Are Made
Chapter 53 Ancestral Sacrifice Is Carried Out on New Year’ s Eve in the Ning Mansion An Evening Banquet Is Held on the Feast of Lanterns in the Rong Mansion
Zheng Lu: Reconstruct the oriental culture with a contemporary expression
“Creation now for me is a part of my life, every one of my work is like one of the tiny pieces of my life. I blow it up because it is importante to me, and I interprete it in an unique way.”
——Zheng Lu
Zheng Lu, Sculptor, born in Chifeng in Inner Mongolia in 1978.
In the artist’s own words, he has been brought up in a family who lived a life close to the texts, both in work and off time. The family atmosphere gave him such a strong influence that the texts from Chinese literature once became the core of his sculpture creation and the source of the inspirations.
Chinese Ancient Literature as A Starting Point With Contemporary Expression
In childhood Zheng Lu has spent lots of time staying with texts, he helped his father to copy his articles when 6 years old. Based on this experience, the audiences should not be too surprised to think about the artists idea when looking closely at his metal work, Water in Dripping(2015), constructed by “words”. Actually these texts are from the Chinese ancient poem Wan Zhi Shui written by the realist poet Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty. It talks about the metamorphosis of the water between the statical and dynamic status as an metaphor of principles for conducting. The artist intended to present the drastic moment of the water, interpreting both the static and dynamic aspects of it with the whole text of the poem.
According to Zheng Lu, the Wan Zhi Shui by Bai Juyi is to some extent the continuation and development of the thought of Zhuangzi, the ideologist, philosopher and representative of Taoism. Today, it comes to him to reinterpret the thoughts of these grand ideologists using contemporary languages and expressions on the base of his own observations and reflections, trying to give the oriental classic culture a contemporary appearance. This is highly thought of in the field of Chinese contemporary art.
The Uniqueness May Become the Limit
When everything is rapidly developing, taking a look back can actually be another way of moving forward.
——Zheng Lu
In Zheng Lu’s point of view, one big question of the process of sculpture creation is how to break the traditional rule fixed at the beginning of professional studies, which always requires the artist to start from a concrete object. For example some of his works are based on texts, an object quite concrete, which for him is to some extent a kind of limitation against the creation. Being willing to and good at breaking the old way of thinking and the fixed method of creation is hard but extremely necessary for the artists.
The Crossover Concept Should Fulfill the Need of Expression, But Not to Be the Starting Point
Zheng Lu believes that, the trend in the future will no longer be based on single media o material. The world changes rapidly at every moment, the everyday information is in an explosive growth, all these require that the artists should catch the pace of the world. Nevertheless, he wouldn’t let the trend to limit his creation.What he concerns about is not the media, due dimensional o three dimensional is not so important, what he is doing is to consciously give up the inherent awareness and way of expression, keeping the creative state through the continuous self- criticizing.
Watercolor Printmaking through Thousands of Years-Grand Exhibition of Watercolor Printmaking in China
Dates: 19.1.2018-11.3.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: No.4,5,6,7,8,9,10,Central Hall,Skylight Corridor, Zhejiang Art Museum
Address: 138 Nanshan Road Hangzhou, China
Website: official web page
The exhibition is included in the exhibition series named “Oriente Wisdom”, being the first one to be presented to the public.
The watercolor printmaking is an unique traditional craft originated in China, which is always the carrier of the Chinese traditional philosophy and memories, reflecting deeply the Chinese aesthetics. Hangzhou, the chief town of Zhejiang Province, has a history of more than one thousand years that has been connecting to it, and even today it is still one of the top locations of the creation of watercolor printmaking works in China.
The exhibition, with the “aquatic culture” as its theme, is divided in five parts, The exhibition plans to take “Oriental Wisdom” as the point, to form a “spiritual tour of the west to the east” in five years’ time. To present the spirit of “narrative form, cognitive development, traceability” through deconstruction and reconstruction of the established image and intermediary cognitive styles to explore, revival, and presents the depth of our national wisdom of enduring vitality.
The Dawning East -Collections from the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods
Dates: 29.12.2017-28.3.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 2nd exhibition hall, 1F, Hunan Museum
Address: No.50 Dongfeng Road, Changsha, China
Website: official web page
This is an era featured by vitality and dynamism, an era blessed with exquisite craftsmanship and delicate innovation and an era where Chinese civilization and traditional culture took shape. The old institution was abolished while the new order established, revealing the dawning in the east.
240 pieces of precious cultural relics from 30 cultural institutions and museums nationwide are collected for this exhibition to help the visitors get a deeper understanding of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period which was a time of great historic transformations from a grand narrative perspective. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period (770 to 221 BC) spanning over 500 years, played a vital role in Chinese history when profound changes and turbulences mixed up with great advances and integration. Despite complicated historic lines during the period, the exhibition, by making painstaking and scrupulous research on the historical records, decided to tell what happened in the east from political, economic and cultural aspects. The period was also called by the famous German scholar Karl Jaspers as the “Axial Age” of human civilization.
(Transferred from www.hnmuseum.com)
Bronze Wine Vessel in Matching Tray from Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (433 B.C. – )Bronze Wine Vessel in Matching Tray from Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (433 B.C. – )Bronze Wine Vessel in Matching Tray from Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (433 B.C. – )Du tiger-shaped tally (770 B.C.-221 B.C.)Bronze two-wing legendary beast inlaid with silver (770 B.C.-221 B.C.)Bronze tally inlaid with gold (770 B.C.-221 B.C.)
Liu Ruowang, a professional artist, is living in Beijing now. He was born in 1977 in the mountain area of Jia Xian County of Yulin district in northern Shaanxi province, which, as his hometown, was one of the first areas accepted Catholic missionary in China. ‘Ruowang’, his given name, is homonymic to John, the Catholic saints.
Liu Ruowang, Melody 2011
In 1996, he was admitted to learn in the clothing design department of Xi’an Polytechnic University in Xi’an, later in 1998, he quitted from the school because of willing to become a painter. He came to Beijing in 1999 and studied the postgraduate course as teaching assistant in Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2002 to 2005; in 2005, his artwork “The East is Red” participated the “Light of the Academy” exhibition of excellent artworks held by CAFA and was awarded.
Liu Ruowang, Melody 2011
Liu Ruowang is a young artist grew up after the Reform and Opening up of China, he walked into provincial capital city from a small poverty village in mountain of Western China through pursuing his education and later into the Capital of China, finally he became a professional artist. He became a shining star in Chinese art circles since 2005 and with groups of sculpture artworks and one after another exhibitions, he became an influential young artist with international reputation. His artworks have been exhibited around the world in, except for Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese inland cities, Singapore, Seoul of Korea, Queenstown of New Zealand, Venice Biennale of Italy, The University of Turin and other places. He has many series of representative artworks, including Original Sin, Wolves Coming, Heaven Soldier, The People, Melody, Dodo, and others. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Joachim Gauck,New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, South Korea’s parliament defense commission chairman Won Yoo-Cheol, South Korea’s deputy prime minister KIM BYUNG-JOON have all visited Liu Ruowang and congratulated his success in art. In 2015, Liu Ruowang was awarded the Naples International Cultural Classic Prize of Italy.
Liu Ruowang, Original Sin 2011-2013
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “CREATURES by Ruowang”The overseas tour exhibitions of Liu Ruowang’s works of art. Germany—NordArt Germany
2016 “CREATURES by Ruowang” The overseas tour exhibitions of Liu Ruowang’s works of art. Beijing—Giri Beijing International Art Zone
2015 “Wolves Coming！” dialogue《 the mourning of Christ》 Venice Biennale—Access Naples Cultural Classic “Wolves Coming！” dialogue with 《Kritik der reinen Vernunft》of Immanuel Kant ——University of Turin
2014 “Heaven and Earth of the Loess”solo exhibition China federation of literature and art
2014 “The original sin”solo exhibition Changchun
2014 “From Human to Ape” – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Solo Exhibition–Beijing 798 Art Zone, 3 Street,Honyo Art Center
2013 South Korea Cultural Exchange Exhibition Liu Ruowang solo exhibition – The South Korean parliament
2012 “Wolves Coming！” – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Exhibition – New Zealand Queenstown
2011 “Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water”Liu RuoWang’s Themed Suclptures Solo Exhibition – Century Jinyuan Yansha Museum, Beijing
2009 Burdened – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Solo Exhibition—49 Gallery, Beijing
2009 Humanist Appeal – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures—Xingyi Gallery, Singapore
2009 Humanist Appeal – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures—Bund No. 1, Singapore
2008 “Inquiries of Hevean”- Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Solo Exhibition—Beijing No.1 Place Art Mansion
2008 “The World”- Liu RuoWang Themed Sculpture Solo Exhition—Loft3 Art Gallery, Beijing 798 Art District
2007 “Korea High East Art Museum – Liu RuoWang Solo Exhibition—Seoul, Korea
2007 “The East is Red”-Liu Ruowang Solo Exhibition–Singapore Xingyi Gallery(Beijing)
2006 “People Series II” – Liu Ruowang Solo Exhibition –Beijing 798 District
2005 “People Series I” – Liu Ruowang Solo Exhibition –Taiwan Bada Gallery(Beijing)
Liu Ruowang, Wolves Coming 2008-2010
Group Exhibitions
2012 “Professors’ Way”·Group Exhibition of Research Associates and Professors from the Sculpture Branch of China National Art Institute——Beijing China National Art Institute Museum
2012 The 12th National Millitary Art Exhibition——China National Art Museum, award winner
2011 Invitational Exhibition of China National Art Institute——Guozhong Art Museum, Songzhuang, Beijing
2011 “Daybreak”-30th Anniversary Exhibition of China National Art Institute——China National Art Museum
2010 “Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water” – Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Exhibition—Guanyintang Art Museum, Beijing
2010 “Majestic Momentum”- China Invitational Exhibition of Modern Sculptures——China Millennium Monument
2010 “Wolves Coming！” – 2010 Liu RuoWang’s Sculptures Exhibition —798 Originality Square,Dingfeng Art Space
2009 The May 4th Young Artists Exhibition-Hongwan Art Museum Exhibition Tour, Asia Art Center·
2009 “I Can Believe” – Beijing Fanxing Art Museum Invitational Exhibition—Beijing Fanxing Art Museum
2009 “China Motive Power”-2009 China International Sculpture Almanac Exhibition（CISAE）—Beijing International Sculpture Art District
2009 Sino-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition – Collision -Exhibition of Liu RuoWang’s Artworks
2008 “Floating” Sino-Korea Modern Art Exhibition along with Dingfeng Art Space Opening Exhibition—Dingfeng Art Space, Beijing 798 Art District
2008 2008 Asia Modern Art Exhibition —Singapore Art Museum
2008 798 Art Festival “Loft Outdoor Sculptures Show”— Dashanzi 798 ArtDistrict, Beijing
2008 “Future Sky”- China Contemporary Young Artists Nominational Exhibition” —China National Art Museum
2008 “Uproar of the Populace” – the 4th Songzhuang Art Festival Public Sculpture Exhibition —Songzhuang, Beijing
2008 Reply to “Asia”- Midland Invitational Exhibition of Modern Art——Henan Art Museum
2008 “China’s Stance” 1st China Sculptures Grand Exhbition——Exhibition tour to Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities
2008 “2007 China Documentary Exhibition of Contemporary Art” Themed Exhibition—Beijing Gehua Art Center
2007 “2007 Open Exhibition of Modern Sculptures” —Beijing Exhibition Center
2007 “Pictures of Yesterday Exhibition”—Beijng Sal Tree Flower Center
2006 “Art Beijing”- China Agricultural Exhibition Center
2005 “Survival Space-Behavioral Structure-Art Exhibition”—Beijing Guanghua International CBD Art Avenue
2005 “Peace and Prosperity-Grand Sculptures Exhibition”—Beijing Wangfujing Pedestrians’ Street
2005 “Yellow Sky, Deep Soil- Grand Sculptures Exhibition”—China Millennium Monument
2005 “the East is Red” for the CAFA “Light of the Academy” Excellent Works Exhibition
2005 Completed courses at the Assistant Professors’ Graduate Program of the CAFA
Liu Ruowang, Dodo 2015
Collections
“The East is Red Series”
Awarded and collected at CAFA “Light of the Academy” Excellent Works Exhibition
Collected by Taiwan Bada Art Gallery
Collected by Beijing Now Gallery
Collected by Singapore New Art Center
Collected by Hong Kong Qiaofu Group
Collected by Taiwan Lianju Real Estate Company
Collected in Paris, France
Collected in Florence，Italy
Collected by Nanjing Art Institute
“People Series”
Collected by New Art Center of Singapore
Collected by Bund No.1 of Singapore
Collected by Beijing 1949
Collected by Dongchong Art Museum of South Korea
“Guards of Honor”
Collected by China Modern Art Foundation
“Heavenly Troops Series”
Collected by Beijing 1949
Collected by Dingfeng Art Gallery of Beijng
Collected by Huayi Brothers Media Group
Collected by Institutions and individuals from Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Singapore, the Unites States, South Korea and Beijing
“Wolves Coming”
Collected by The Hills Golf Club of New Zealand
Collected by Qiaofu Group of Hong Kong
“Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water Series”
Collected by Beijing 1949 Jinbao Street
Collected by individuals from the United States, France and Taiwan
Award winner at China National Art Museum
“Heritage Series”
Collected by New Art Center of Singapore
Collected by Qiaofu Group of Hong Kong
Dates: 24.12.2017-21.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-22:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: M071, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu
Address: 8 Zhong Shamao Road, Chengdu, China
In 2015, the “Future of Today: Imaginary Future” organized by Today Art Museum (TAM) was initially held and received very high attention. In December 2017, based on the “.zip” theme, the “Future of Today” project developed the thinking of arts by means of format” and brought it to 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York. This time, it will “unzip” another city in China, Chengdu. The Exhibition arranged different artists’ works together in order, by which the different expression forms of arts in different time and space concepts enlightened people’s thinking on existence and future. The nine immersive works of this exhibition created by James Cao, Feng Hao, Gan Jian, Guo Ruiwen, Hong Qile etc., each with a different theme, have been “zipped” together, and then “unzipped” into a richly imaginative field of collective consciousness.
The exhibition is committed to developing the best experimental hotbed that carries future artistic ideas, with a view to expanding the audience’s experience in physical and dimensional spaces through different types of cross-media artworks, and inspiring them to think about the times and development to the full extent. In the meantime, the exhibition has also enhanced the exposure of Chinese young artists and their exchanges on the global stage, and uplifted the influence of China’s new media art in the international community.
TODAY WALL POWER-The 3rd Edition of Wallpost Artist Exhibition
Dates: 18.1.2018-11.3.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 1F, 2F, 2nd exhibition hall, Today Art Museum
Address: Building 4, Pingod Community, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Website: official web page
The 3rd Edition of Wallpost Artist Exhibition is hosted by Wallart and Today Art Museum, collaborated by Muyun Culture and Art Foundation. The exhibition will show the works of 34 artists selected from 103 candidates, which include paintings, sculptures, installations, film, photography and complex art, relating to field such as multimedia, new material and internet technics. The “wall” is composted of bricks and cement that symbolizes the stability and solidarity. We take “Wall Power” as the title of the exhibition so as to express that the future of the Chinese contemporary art, with individual efforts, will become a solid and large “wall”.
(Translated from www.todayartmuseum.com)
Duxi, Carousel 2015Li Linlin, Marshroom Shop 2016Zhao Kai Liberty Bird No.1 77×37×62cm 2015-2016Luan Qijia, 528Hz- Frequency of Love 2916
Rhizome : Autonomous Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Arts
Dates: 14.1.2018-4.3.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 2F, 3F, 4F 1st exhibition hall, Today Art Museum
Address: Building 4, Pingod Community, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Website: official web page
The title of this exhibition “Rhizome”originates from the theory of a French philosopher Gilles Louis René Deleuze(1925-1995), who compared Rhizome to a type of complex cultural metaphor and the nomadic way of thinking. It represents an open, decentralized, ruleless diversified form. The Rhizome describes perfectly that Chinese contemporary art has created its unique path which is to grow during the integration and create the diversity during the growth. Therefore the exhibition chose to observe the Chinese contemporary art from three different perspectives: Multiplicity and Symbiosis, Continuity and Fission and Nonlinearity and Recodification.
(Translated from www.todayartmuseum.com)
Wang Luyan, Downward Force 2015Xu Zhen, Eternity-Statue of Buddha, Aphrodite 2016Gao Weigang, Up No.3 2014Gao Weigang, No Way! 2013Sui Jianguo, Discobolus 2004
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