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Wang Chuan: The 8 Great Sites of Beijing
Exhibition Dates: 20 June – 10 Aug 2009
Opening Reception: 20 June, 2009, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
Artist Wang Chuan, full-time professor in the new media department of Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts, will have his first solo-show in Beijing at Pékin Fine Arts in spring 2009. The exhibit centers on 8 historic sites of Beijing, each depicted in one panoramic landscape color photo shot, revealing real places stripped of nostalgia or historical reference.
Using digital pixel-comprised imagery, Wang digs deep beneath the surface of the photo, aiming to unearth the fundamental “compressed” features of Beijing. The pixilated images reveal traces of history amidst Beijing’s policy of unbridled construction to achieve a more “civilized” city.
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Anaïs Martane: Beijing Pottraits
Exhibition Dates: 20 June – 10 Aug 2009
Opening Reception: 20 June, 2009, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
‘Portraits of Beijing’ is a personal reflection on the pluralities of China; of the men and women from all walks of life who make Beijing what it is today: a city of many faces, each bearing his or her unique tale of every day existence in China’s capital. A real estate agent, a rock star, a retired state enterprise worker, a journalist, a seller of kebabs, an artist, a fashion model, a student of architecture, an actor, a producer, and others. Anais Martane’s lens captures each of these personalities subtly and sensitively, sans posturing for the camera.
Accompanied by journalist Diane Droin-Michaud, Ms. Martane travelled widely across China during 2007 recording these faces - smiling, sad, pensive and with mixed expressions. Each of the portraits is captured in its own daily milieu, whether personal or professional. The text of Diane Droin-Michaud echoes each image, ever deferential to the voice of the subject, allowing viewers to slip for an instant into the dreams and observations of each protagonist.
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WassinkLundren: Empty Bottles
Exhibition Dates: 20 June – 10 Aug 2009
Opening Reception: 20 June, 2009, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
‘Empty Bottles’ 2005, WassinkLundgren, winner of the 2007 Arles Contemporary Book Award, is a collaboration between two young Dutch artists working with photography, Groot Wassink (b. 1981 The Netherlands) and Ruben Lundgren (b. 1983 The Netherlands). ‘Empty Bottles’ comprises portraits of ’24 scavengers attracted by the bottles we put in front of the camera’. The project captures real-life acts of recycling, largely unnoticed, yet integral to contemporary life in China. Wassink Lundgren currently live, work and study in both London and Beijing. Initially done as a photo book project, each ‘empty bottle’ portrait is presented as diptych alongside a blank institutional blue-green page of the same size, in homage to the color used in public municipal space around China.
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Mixed Media and Body Containers on Display at The Opposite House
Exhibition Dates: 21 Mar – 21 June 2009
Venue: The Opposite House, The Village, Building 1, No. 11 Sanlitun Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100027
The Opposite House in partnership with Pékin Fine Arts has begun exhibiting new art works by artists Bai Yilou and Movana Chen in the hotel’s Atrium.
A native of Luoyang, in China’s Henan Province, Bai Yiluo exhibits Camouflage Jackets. 70 individual men’s coats are on display, each pieced together from the delicate pages of supermarket advertising supplements. On display as well is a single men’s jacket constructed from black and white passport photos stitched together with red and black thread.
Movana Chen, from Shantou in Guangdong Province, exhibits Body Containers. This 4 piece mixed media installation is comprised of shredded magazine pages hand-knit together to form human shapes.
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