Month: March 2018

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传统

Exhibition of Miao People’s Clothes from Guizhou

Dates: 16.3.2018-20.5.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Fashion Pavilion, China National Silk Museum
Address: 73-1 Yuhuangshan Road, West Lake District, Hangzhou China
Website: official web page

Batik Cloth with Diamond-shaped Floral Scrolls, collected in Guizhou Museum

Miao people is an ancient ethnic group which spreads mainly in Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, And Hainan Province. In Guizhou Province lives the largest community of Miao People.

Batik Cloth with Diamond-shaped Floral Scrolls, collected in Guizhou Museum

The Miaos create a variety of colorful arts and crafts, including cross-stitch work, embroidery, weaving, batik and so on. Their batik technique dates back  from about a thousand years ago. Miao clothing incorporates hundreds of styles in varying arrays of color.

Batik Miao Clothes From Liuzhi Special Zone collected in Guizhou Museum

Miao are famous for their traditional costumes and wonderful embroidery. Women wear black tunics and pleated skirts, or calf-length black trousers with a short black skirts, or maroon or colored jacket or shirt with a colorful vest along with silver ornaments, and a turban-like headdresses strung with dangling coins. They sometimes wear silver rings around their necks, and also wear distinctive colorfully-embroidered aprons which Miao women believe can be dipped in water and used as a wash cloth to cure their husbands of any illness.

Double-fished And Double-bird Batik Cloth, collected in Guizhou Museum

The exhibition will present 185 pieces of traditional Miao clothes and accessories collected by Guizhou Museum, in which 35 sets of clothes are from differente branches and made for Miao people of differente genders and ages.

Female Splendid Attire from Taijiang County, collected in Guizhou Museum

(Images from www.chinasilkmuseum.com)

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当代

The Only Question Is How to Endure. Works from Towards Evenings: Six Chapters

Dates: 10.3.2018-27.5.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: OCAT Xi’an
Address: Beichitou 1st Road, Yanta District, Xi’an, China
Website: official web page

The Only Question Is How to Endure180*180*10cm 2012-2017
The Only Question Is How to Endure180*180*10cm 2012-2017

Since 2012, the artist Chen Zhe has started her long term project Towards Evenings: Six Chapters, talking about individual inner feelings toward the surroundings, especially confusions and fears upon the unknowns occurred when one looking at the dusk. In fact, Chen Zhe has already begun to discover the human inner perceptions in her early works. Behind those pain, fright and indulgence, according to Chen Zhe, there is something beautiful, or precisely, they all mix together one and another. And this is the feature of all the works from Towards Evenings: Six Chapters.

Chen Zhe Timing Installation 2017
Chen Zhe Timing Installation 2017

This exhibition presents works of different materials and media like photography, archiving pictures and installations, in which one video will be exhibited the first time.

Chen Zhe was born in 1989, graduated from Art Center College of Design in 2011, now she lives and works in Beijing. Her works have been exhibited in the 11th Shanghai Biennale, in Sadie Coles Gallery in London, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. She has received Kassel Photobook Award, Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation and has participated in the shootings of documentary films of the French channel ARTE and Japanese channel NHK.

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当代

Xie Nanxing: Spices

Exhibition Date: 2018.3.17-2018.5.27
Opening time: 10: 00-19: 00 (closed on Monday)
Exhibition location: Ullens Contemporary Art Center Yongdao, promenade, middle exhibition hall
Exhibition address: No. 4 Road, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Exhibition website: official website

Xie Nanxing Spice One 220 × 300cm oil on canvas 2016

The exhibition presents the audience with the seven paintings created by artist Xie Nanxing in the past two years, which is different from the works in the early stage of his creative career. The works in this exhibition focus on abstract expressions.

Xie Nanxing Spice 2 220 × 300cm oil on canvas 2016

Xie Nanxing was born in 1970 and graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. His works participated in the 12th Kassel Document Exhibition, the 48th Venice Biennale and other famous art exhibitions. He usually completes only 5 to 6 works per year, because he believes that everything is based on speed in the fast-consuming era, and he hopes to resolve the anxiety behind this speed in a slow manner.

Xie Nanxing does not advocate the special literary nature of the painting. “I hope that everyone who walks in the progress hall is equal to my work. The artist does not absolutely have the right to interpret the painting.”

Xie Nanxing Spice 4 200 × 300cm oil on canvas 2016

（Pictures from ucca.org.cn）

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传统 | 陆抑非个人作品展 – 浙江美术馆 杭州 2018.3.16-2018.4.15

Exhibition of Lu Yifei’s Works

Dates: 16.3.2018-15.4.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 4,5,6 Exhibition Hall, Zhejiang Art Museum
Address: 138 Nanshan Road Hangzhou, China

Lu Yifei Orchid 1976
Lu Yifei Orchid 1976

Lu Yifei(1908-1997) was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, one of the masters of Chinese landscape painting and bird-and-flower painting and educator of fine arts. In 1931 he was introduced to be an assistant in the Shanghai Institute of Fine Arts by Zhu Qizhan(1892-1996), a professore worked in the Institute; in 1937 Lu Yifei held his first solo exhibition in Shanghai; in 1956 he was nominated as one of the first masters of China National Academy of Painting(Shanghai). Moreover, he has been a member of China Artists Association and Chinese Calligraphers Association, served as an artist in China National Academy of Painting in Shanghai and Zhejiang Province, vice president of Xiling Painting and Calligraphy Institute, honorary president of Changshu Painting and Calligraphy Institute, member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Lu Yifei Peach Blossom and Starling 1960
Lu Yifei Peach Blossom and Starling 1960

He had a genius for drawing flower-and-bird painting, especially Peony flowers. His masterpieces include Blooming Flowers and Full Moon, Spring in the Countryside and A Picture Peach, and a catalogue called Fei’s Painting collections.

Lu Yifei Spring of the Pond 1976
Lu Yifei Spring of the Pond 1976

The exhibition, with the largest ever collection of Lu Yifei to be shown to the public, will present 170 pieces of works created in different periods of the artist’s career, and quite a few of them are to be exhibited for the first time.

Lu Yifei White Peacock 1978
Lu Yifei White Peacock 1978

(Images from zjam.org.cn)

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古代

古代 | 中国汉画大展 – 山水美术馆 北京 2018.3.12-2018.4.9

Exhibition of Ink Rubbings from Ancient Image Bricks

Dates: 12.3.2018-9.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00
Location: Riverside Art Museum
Address: 200m toward the East from crossroad of Hangman Dong Road and Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

On March 12th 2018,  the Exhibition of Ink Rubbings from Ancient image Bricks will be open to the public in Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Organized by Chinese Institute of Han Dynasty’s Art and the Riverside Art Museum, the Exhibition has gathered 587 pieces of works from 29 Chinese cultural heritage institutes which are all members of Chinese Institute of Han Dynasty’s Art. Occupied an area of nearly 10,000.00 square meters, the exhibition is no doubt the largest one in this theme after the founding of new China.

The ancient Chinese image bricks are a type of componente of the Chinese architecture, which is also one of the main form of Han Dynasty’s art. The application of this kind of elaborately-made bricks in Chinese traditional architecture was started from the period of warring states(about 500BC – 221BC), frequently used in Han Dynasty(202BC-220), and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-200). It was widely spread in central plains, Southeast zone and Southwest zone of China, and was particularly flourishing in Henan Province and Sichuan Province.

These ancient bricks tells a lot of ancient stories, legends and fables with a large variety of visual elements, mainly used for decoration of the stairs of palaces in Qin and Western Han Dynasty, and later for ornament of the walls in chamber tombs. They reflect vividly the life styles and social status of Han Dynasty, considered as the encyclopedia of the civilizzazione of that era, contributing greatly to the history of Chinese paintings and sculptures.

(Images from cnarts.net)

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当代

Watching the Clouds Go By: Liang Quan’s Creative Style and it’s Changes

Dates: 10.3.2018-29.4.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Hive Center for Contemporary Art
Address: 1-5 Block A4, North Zone OCT·Loft, Nanshan District, 518053 Shenzhen, China
Website: official web page

The Hive Center for Contemporary Art in Shenzhen has held the opening ceremony for its first exhibition of the year 2018 Watching the Clouds Go By: Liang Quan ‘s Creative Style and it’s Changes on March 10th 2018. This is the fifth solo exhibition of the artist Liang Quan in Hive Center, which will present to the audiences the artworks created in different periods of the artist’s career with various topics. The works exhibited are organized according to timeline, aiming to show the whole process of the development of Liang’s aesthetics through comparisons between various artistic styles, themes and creating technics.

Born in the 1940s, Liang Quan has gone through the “Cultural Revolution”  during his adolescent years and has been one of the first students who studied abroad and stepped into the field of post-expressionism. His historically featured personal experience has brought to his artworks both the visual elements from oriental and western culture, as we can always see the Chinese philosophy and cultural characters hidden behind the  form of western abstractionism, creating in this way an unique artistic language that distinguishes itself from the two cultures but perfectly mixes both of them.

(Images from hiveart.cn)

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当代

当代 | 云南青年艺术家展 – 昆明当代美术馆 昆明 2018.3.3-2018.4.7

Notes on Region

Dates: 3.3.2018 – 7.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Contemporary Gallery Kunming
Address: Park 1903, Qianwei West Rd., Kunming, China
Website: official web page

On March the 3rd 2018 Contemporary Gallery Kunming has held its opening ceremony and in the meantime has been proud to announce its inaugural exhibition Notes on Region, opening on the same day, in which 10 artists will present their artworks, they are Cheng Xinhao, Guo Peng, He Jing, He Da, Li Donghai, Li Gang, Li Rui, Su Jiaxi,  Yan Junjie and Ye Funa. By presenting artworks created by these young artists born since 1980 who grew up o work o live now in Yunnan Province, the exhibition aims to deconstruct the word “region” through lenses of cultural diversity, geographic history and contemporary vision, and tries to reconstruct its notion by different means ranging from abstract and concrete, to formal and conceptual. The distinguishing point of the exhibition is its multidisciplinary nature, namely a combination of the field of humanity, natural science and conceptual art.

Among the participated artists, some have already got achievements in there career, for example Li Gang has held a solo exhibition in Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2013 who’s representative work is Preyer Beads (397 pieces 2012) and many others; Cheng Xinhao received his PhD on Chemistry from Peking University in 2013, working as an artist now, he investigates on the issues in the modernization, the construction of knowledge as well as the production of space in Chinese society, and in 2017 his solo exhibition Time from Different Sources: Images from Ciman Village was held in Jiazazhi Gallery in Ningbo, China.

(Images from Internet)

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当代

当代 | 朱金石个展 – 当代唐人艺术中心 北京 2018.3.10-2018.4.30

Zhu Jinshi – The Ship of Time

Dates: 10.3.2018-30.4.2018
Opening hours: 11:00-17:30(closed on Mondays)
Location: 1st Gallery Space, Tang Contemporary Art
Address: D06, 798 Art District,No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Website: official web page

The artist Zhu Jinshi’s dual solo shows Ship of Time and Rejecting River Currents will be opened in the  two spaces of Tang Contemporary Art on March 10, 2018. Based on the unique architecture of both of Tang Contemporary’s Beijing spaces, these parallel exhibitions will present important works of installation and the artist’s unique “thick paintings.”

In space I The Ship of Time rice paper installation uses exactly 14,000 sheets of rice paper, 1,800 pieces of fine bamboo, and 2,000 cotton threads seven meters long. This summer, the team returned to the ancient villages on Yellow Mountain to develop fireproof rice paper and choose bamboo. Later in the Songzhuang studio, several months were spent shaping the rice paper, baking the bamboo straight, making holes, and cutting three-meter sections. The works were designed specifically for the space, and the two massive beams on the ceiling bear the weight of the suspended installation.

(Transferred from www.tangcontemporary.com)

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传统 | 陈之佛花鸟画展 – 南京博物院 南京 2017.10.1-2018.4.20

Exhibition of Chen Zhifo’s Autumn and Winter Themed Paintings 

Dates: 1.10.2017-20.4.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 2F, 22nd Exhibition Hall, Art Pavilion, Nanjing Museum
Address: 321 Zhongshan Dong Road, Nanjing, China
Website: official web page

Chen Zhifo(1896-1962), also known as Chen Shaoben, Chen Jie, Born in Yuyao, ZhejiangProvince, was a well-known Chinese educator of modern art, an artist and a craftsman. He was graduated from the major of Automatic Weaving of the First Industrial Institute of Hangzhou in 1916 and in the 1918 he went to Tokyo University of the Arts to study in the Department of Applied Art and returned to China in 1923 to establish the Shangmei Patterns Gallery.

Chen was trapped into a chaotic situation in most time of his life due to the war until after the construction of People’s Republic of China. In those periods of social and political upheavals, only by having strong faith toward his passion and a spirit of not sailing with the stream can an artist be remembered.

(Translated from www.njmuseum.com)

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当代 | 郭振宇艺术作品展 – 今日美术馆 北京 2018.3.17-2018.4.8

Touch Eye – Guo Zhenyu Art Exhibition

Dates: 17.3.2018-8.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: 1&2F Exhibition Hall of Building No.3 Today Art Museum
Address: Building 4, Pingod Community, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Website: official web page

From many art works of Guo Zhenyu we can see his disaster awareness, which is full of worries for the future of human beings. In this reality where the Genics, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and all the unpredictable crisis are discussed everyday, it is inevitable to have the perception of catastrophe, which is both spiritual and physical. Guo’s reflection and creation starts from this point, and he tries to construct a vivid expressive world of texture and demonstrates his attitude explicitly: to enter the darkness of the life, a hidden clue, a shadowed way of living.

(Translated from www.todayartmuseum.com)