由陈凯歌导演，于12月22日上映的贺岁奇幻钜制《妖猫传》电影曝光一组“群猫贺岁”艺术海报，白乐天、空海等九大人物纷纷化形为猫，萌与奇幻感兼具，以传统的笔墨进行趣味革新，集合片中人物性格特征，赋予每款“猫”人物灵魂。
这组《妖猫传》的艺术海报出自当代艺术家文那之手，海报上白乐天提笔展卷轴、空海踏浪而来、春琴吃鱼、玄宗打鼓……将电影角色全部聚焦于“猫”身上。通过对每位“猫”人物的服装、场景、所持道具以及面部表情，与电影中每个人物的角色特征高度结合又不失趣味，看点十足。
电影《妖猫传》讲述了盛唐时期一段奇幻的凄美史诗。癫狂诗人白乐天与仰慕大唐风采的僧人空海相遇长安，却意外触发了横跨三十年、有关王朝兴衰的惊天之秘，随着各色人物一一登场、大唐繁盛绚烂与时代隐痛一一揭开，一个被历史纷乱掩盖的真相也将浮出水面。
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Dates: 29.12.2017-28.2.2018
Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan University
Address: 299 Bayi Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, China
Website: official website
Hubei Province is an important location of the 85 New Wave, which is considered as a brand new episode of Chinese contemporary art when China began to reinventing its own culture. The many artists based in the province had made it a cradle of the movements of modernism in China.
The exhibition will present the works of 21 artists(Fu Zhongwang, Gong Jian, He An, Leng Jun, Li Juchuan, Li Liao, Li Yu and Liu Bo, Liu Chuang, Ma Liuming, Shang Yang, Shi Chong, Shi Jinsong, Tang Jing, Tang Yongxiang, Wang Singsong, Wang Sishun, Wei Guangqing, Xu Tan, Yuan Xiaofang, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhan Rui) born from 1940s to 1980s and based in Hubei Province, Among these artists there are pioneers of the 85 New Wave and also the witnesses and practitioners of the Chinese Economic Reform, who interprete their observation of the real collisions of powers and conversations between China and the Western world, and also are captivated by the minute local experiences.
The 17th of December in 2017 has witnessed the selling of the most expensive Chinese artwork in record: Qi Baishi’s Twelve Screens of Landscapes created in 1925 went under the hammer at Beijing Poly Auction at 930 million RMB, namely 142 million US dollars, bought buy a Chinese collector.
Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 – 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works.
Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing.
He has created only 2 extant Twelve Screens of Landscapes in his 93-year-old life. The present set, created by Qi at the age of 62 years old as a birthday gift to the renowned doctor Chen Zilin, was kept in the hand of one of Qi’s female pupil Xiuyi Guo. It was originally set to be sold at Beijing Poly Auction in 2015 with an estimate of RMB 800m -1.5b but the plan was later called off. This time, the painting carried a pre-sale estimate of RMB 500m and was sold for RMB 931.5 million.
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Dates: 16.12.2017-25.2.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00（closed on Mondays)
Location: West Bund Long Museum
Address: 3398 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Website: official web page
Xiang Jing is the first female artist to be given a large-scale solo exhibition at the Long Museum (West Bund). “Xiang Jing: Through No One’s Eyes But My Own,” a comprehensive retrospective spanning over twenty-one years of her artistic output, opens at the Long Museum in December, 2017. The 2017 exhibition program at the Long Museum will come to a perfect end with Xiang Jing’s exhibition.
(Excerpted from thelongmuseum.org)
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Dates: 30.11.2017-14.3.2018
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Temporary exhibition hall, 2F Anhui Museum (new building)
Address: 268 Huaining Road, Hefei, China
The exhibition will present 100 pieces or sets selected from 19,000 sets of jade ware collected in the Palace Museum of Beijing. In the six thematic exhibition halls the visitors will see the great achievements gained by the royal craftsmen during the Qing Dynasty.
(Translated from ahm.cn)
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