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Today is Shanghai time #2


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1. 38 solo exhibitions in Shanghai
(Opening: 6pm, May 20th, Daily: May 20th -27th, 2006)
Creative Garden, 2577 Longhua Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai.

Du 20th – 27th, May 2006 (12:00 to 20:00)
Opening: 20th, May 2006 (18:00)

Bizart (http://www.biz-art.com/), Shanghart (http://www.shanghart.com/), 
le Duolun Moma ainsi que le Zendai moma (http://www.zendaiart.com/) 
organisent une semaine d'exposition pour donner une idee de ce que sera 
le creative garden un nouvel ensemble de galleries qui n'ouvrira 
officielement que dans quelques mois...

* Let's see who's lucky -- Chen Shaoxiong's solo exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=482)

* Half Hitching Post -- Yang Fudong's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=976)

* Make-up – Yang Qingqing's solo exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=483)

* VIP --- Huang Kui's solo exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=491)

* Follow me --- He An solo's exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=484)

* My Photographs Exhibition, Zhang Ding's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=979)

* A sleepy afternoon, and unavoidably past time --Liang Yue's solo 
exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=975)

* Happy Pool --- Geng Jianyi's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=972)

* Protected by colors -- Kan Xuan's Solo Exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=488)

* One project composed of 100 projects -- Zhu Yu's Solo Exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=497)

* Fictious Name - Zhou Xiaohu's solo exhibition
* Materialists discovered the way of understanding big prophecies - Lu 
Lei's solo exhibition
* The Next second - Alexander Brandt Solo exhibition
* The stand-in, at art's service - Song Dong's solo exhibition
* Surviving - Zhang Qing's solo exhibition
* This is a solo exhibiton - Zheng Guogu's solo exhibtion
* Sunday -- Tang Maohong's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=974)

* Oh, ny god! -- Jin Feng's solo exhibition
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=508)

* Liu Wei's solo exhibition -- Love it, bite it
(http://www.biz-art.com/index.php?id=503)

* Realistic.Reality - Shi Yong's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=970)

* Specimen and Secrecy - Liu Weijian's solo exhibition
* Violent Transformer - Chen Xiaoyun's solo exhibition
* I have a dream - Yang Zhenzhong's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=978)

* A man called Derek Jarman - Zhou Hongxiang's solo exhibition
* Ah! The route of life... - Wang Xingwei's solo exhibition
* Can you tell me? - Liu Jianhua's solo exhibition
* Delighting Therapy - Li Pinghu's solo exhibition
* Power Cut - Ni Jun's solo exhibition
* Soul's Specimen - Sun Xun's solo exhibition
* Love it, bite it - Liu Wei's solo exhibition
* Entertainment's surplus value - Xiang Liqing's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=969)

* An Animal - Xu Zhen's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=980)

* Ya Cinema - Song Tao's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=973)

* Beijing Arboretum - Shi Qing's solo exhibition
* An appeal without word - Jin Feng's solo exhibition
* I feel puzzled: What you know cannot save you - Qiu Anxiong's solo 
exhibition
* OEM Image project - 1: My Younger brother's first film exercise by Yu Ji
* One of the most stupid attacks, against science fiction is that it is 
unable to forecast the future - Lu Chunsheng's solo exhibition
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=977)



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2. Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006
Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Culture has been facing a long crisis of survival, a long battle. 
Chinese and overseas ink painting artists have been carrying on the 
renovation of traditional Chinese culture for years. Their practice – 
from upgrading the ink-painting to self-restoration – takes remarkable 
creativity, courage and effort. The main forces composed of both old and 
young generations have made a go as bold as breaking away from their 
former beat and concept so as to reach a new level where painting and 
personality meet. Their distinctive and varied expressions share the 
same goal that maintains the multifaceted update of the aesthetics of 
ink art and offers a more revolutionary perspective of Chinese neo-ink 
painting in the 21st century.

Influenced by the experience in the contemporary domain, artworks frame 
themselves in certain contexts while the exhibitions are more and more 
involved in the visual contexts. Between the works/exhibitions and 
environment/background are enacted the response, dialogue and 
communication, which lead to the norms, methodology and trends of art 
conveyance. When arts enjoy a growing speech power and exhibitions reap 
a swelling economy, an overlap of concept can be traced in shows and 
artworks; in other words, exhibition-oriented artwork or 
exhibition-as-an-artwork marks a new fashion. Thus art exhibitions, ever 
changing within the context of contemporary visual art, have made their 
unique and solid contribution to the society. The ink painting through 
the constant renewal, based on the vintage of Chinese culture, is 
confronted with a new context of development. The global contemporary 
society sees the ink painting, within the visual context and thus 
arrives at the logic to its evolution. It reaches a breaking point where 
the restoration retains the possibility that is generated by the present 
theory of display and exhibition as well as the visual presentation .
Designed in line with the academic pursuit of Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, 
Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006 is launched as an annual blockbuster 
display of contemporary art. It embodies the building system of an 
institute following the guidelines of the neo-ink-painting forum it 
hatched. This aim being; to build Shanghai into an international 
platform of neo-ink-painting, to prompt (through scholarly efforts) the 
originality and influence of neo-ink in today's world, and to 
demonstrate the lineage and renovation of the rich Chinese traditional 
culture.

Opening: May 12th, 2006 3P.M.
Opening Reception: F1, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, 580 Ouyang Road, Hongkou 
District, Shanghai
Date: May 12th – June 6th, 2006
Venue A: F1-3, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum (580 Ouyang Road, Shanghai)
Venue B: F1-3, F6, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (27 Duolun Road, 
Shanghai)
Presented by: Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art



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3. Shanghart Art Space (May 25 - July 15, 2005)
works by 8 Shanghai artists :
Ding Yi
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=977)

Hu Jieming
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/artists/hujieming/default.htm)

Ji Wenyu
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/artists/jiwenyu/default.htm)

Pu Jie
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/artists/name/pujie)

Shi Yong
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/artists/shiyong/default.htm)

Xue Song
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/artists/name/xuesong)

Zhang Enli
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/artists/zhangenli/default.htm)

Zhou TIehai
(http://china.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/artists/name/zhangenli)

The exhibition features recent works by 8 Shanghai artists side by side 
with sample of works the same artists created 10 to 20 years ago.

Artists in their 40's are a unique group in China. Many of the best 
paintings created today in China are from artists of this generation. 
Born shortly before the Cultural Revolution, they grew up in the 'old 
China', then entered the re-opened art academies, got confronted the 
possibilities of contemporary art in the experimental times of the 80's 
and after graduation they found themselves in Deng Xiaoping's new China.

The following 25 years of enormous change in China covered their 
artistic life. Being the generation 'grown up in the old, but living in 
the new China' their art deals often with meaning, with content, deals 
with all the changes and contradictions they witnessed.

Their work is also characterized by a rigorous search for individuality, 
for an own position, away from a bigger conformity. This exhibition will 
be centered around artist living and working Shanghai, a city which 
seems to fosters especially well this kind of innovation and artistic 
individuality . The 8 artists of the exhibition were trained in art 
academies, mostly in classical oil painting. But then they went 
different ways developing the artistic possibilities: while some paint 
and still enjoy the brush ( e.g. Zhang Enli); some are good painter, but 
are - in a time of computer processed images - not so proud of it 
anymore (Ji Wenyu); other developed the painting language further (e.g. 
Ding Yi with his almost obsessive abstraction, or Xue Song, who recycles 
earlier images with collage); other moved far away from painting into 
the digital possibilities ( e.g. Shi Yong, Hu Jieming); thinking even 
further about the possibilities of painting, Zhou Tiehai, who 
experimented with the computer and digital art ten years ago, doesn't 
paint anymore but has a studio with people painting (airbrushing) for 
him perfect paintings.





Beijing Time...
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3. Dashanzi International Art Festival
http://www.diaf.org

Beijing/Background, DIAF2006

Contemporary art connects the world, Beijing is energized!

Dashanzi International Art Festival, held for the first time in Beijing 
since 2004, continues to uplift contemporary, cutting-edge art forms, 
crowned by the nuances of antithetic words.

>From the DIAF2004 theme, Light.Sound/Time, to the theme of 2005, 
Language/Fable, Beijing/Background completes the circle from human 
nature to knowledge and human nature". Beijing/Background, becomes a 
theme that, as a precursor to the Olympics, binds human nature, art and 
the city. Igniting the flame, it illuminates the thoughts of the people 
of Beijing.

"A speck of fire can set the prairie alight". Dashanzi Art District, 
which was in the throes of demolition, was transformed, as the Bauhaus 
architectural factory complex, the site of the festival, was saved. This 
fierce spark, bursting into flames, represents the intense rise of the 
strength of culture. Recently, Dashanzi has been selected by the 
government of Beijing as the foremost of six districts of cultural 
industry. Of these six regions, Dashanzi is the only art district that 
truly interacts with people and that has an independent organic style.

>From April 29 to March 21, the DIAF2006 will attract an audience of 
around 150 000 to this grand contemporary meeting of people.

The domain of the art festival extends over Jiuxianqiao District, to 
Caochangdi East Art District, Tango Club and Chaoyang House of Culture. 
Mutually, the regions extend to convey the festival's freshness and 
liveliness.

DIAF2006 brings passion. The opening of the festival on April 29, from 
afternoon to evening, will be accompanied by the sounds of drums, 
dancing and music. Special guest Jimmy Biala, will conduct the beats of 
SambAsia, as they offer an ode to the sounds of the city. The beats will 
continue as twenty young international musicians put together an 
exceptional and unbridled DJ workshop in May. Top foreign DJs, Ges-E, 
Sam Zamam will dazzle the same stage for two blazing nights at Tango.

DIAF2006 brings you even more impulse. The argument of how to define the 
border between documentary and fiction will be reopened as the Nordic 
Film Festival explores the dogumentary movement. Memories, personal 
revelations, political and tragic scenes, the odyssey of the city, love 
and growing up… in films from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Will 
dogumentary ever find its role players in China? Other role players such 
as Ye Fu find their own means of expression in DIAF.

DIAF2006 adds spirit. Photographers Ronrong and Inri subtly reflect the 
relationship between a man and a woman in 'Intimate Beijing', an 
exhibition that contrasts two different visions of public and private 
space. The public space offers the scene for the relationship. Marrigje 
de Maar will investigate intimate spaces like bedrooms, exploring the 
psychology of private spaces.

DIAF2006 has soul. Huang Rui, the art director of DIAF, together with 
architect Neville Mars, Wu Hua and Cheng Lei, are launching 'Soldiers at 
the Gates', an encounter between architecture and art. Borrowing the 
catchphrase of the Eight power allied forces and applying it to the 
construction encroaching Beijing, the challenge of history and future, 
art and architecture will be captured, ultimately searching for the 
limit of the point of view human nature. A series of Chinese, and well 
known foreign architects, artists and urban planners will come to 
Beijing from May 19 – 21 for an Open Forum. The motive is not only to 
approach Beijing from a building perspective but to emphasise the 
importance of considering art, culture and identity in the growth of the 
city.

In these three weeks of the festival, more than one hundred galleries, 
organisations, studios will create over twenty different types of 
events: visual art, music, dance, movie, theatre. Around 100 
international artists and more than 500 Chinese artists will gather. 
Every event will emphasize youth and dynamism through cutting-edge 
contemporary art: the foundation of a new Beijing, the reflection of its 
background.

DIAF2006, April 28, 2006

DIAF2006, Organising Committee
Chinese media coordinator: Ellena /yina@stargroup.com.cn/ +8610 64444174
Foreign media coordinator: Lauren Gollasch / diaf@vip.163.com / +8610 
64382797



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4. Appel a residence... Residency call, a Lijiang, province du Yunnan au 
Lijiang Studio
(http://www.lijiangstudio.org/web/home/index.jsp)

Lijiang Studio provides living space, working space, and facilitation 
for international, Chinese, and local artists in two locations: one 
rural location, Lashihai, and one urban location, Kunming, both in 
Yunnan Province, China.

Lijiang Studio's base is at Lashihai, a rural farming community 20 
kilometers from the city of Lijiang, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The 
main residency facility is a traditional Naxi courtyard house, lightly 
renovated. Lashihai is a lake, situated at the base of 5596 meter Jade 
Dragon Snow Mountain, inside a nature reserve.

The Lashihai residency has 4 small double bedrooms rooms available, and 
a dormitory with 8 beds. There is shared studio space, some open and 
some enclosed, suitable for a variety of work from sculpture to video 
editing. The residency has a large shared kitchen and eating area, two 
showers, two sinks, and two toilets. There is currently no special 
equipment. As it occupies a traditional family dwelling, living and 
working space has limited privacy. There is electricity there, but 
currently no internet.

Lijiang Studio also maintains a small space in Lijiang's dense Old Town 
to support the Lashihai residency. This space is available for specific 
projects and gatherings, but is generally not available for long-term 
residencies. This space has an internet connection. Lijiang Studio is 
also building a village exhibition center at Lashihai, expected 
completion is August 2006.

In Kunming, the Yunnan provincial capital, Lijiang Studio maintains one 
office, with computers and internet, and two two-bedroom apartments for 
resident artists. We have access to warehouse exhibition spaces, and 
workshops and classes can be arranged at the local universities, 
including the Yunnan Art Academy.

Lijiang Studio welcomes artists working any medium, from visual arts to 
music to literature to performance. If your work requires special 
equipment, please check with us.

Artists are required to pay for their own airfare, internal 
transportation in China, appropriate insurance, production or project 
expenses, and general living expenses. Lijiang Studio provides living 
and working space, and most meals. If your project has been accepted by 
us and you are applying to external funders, we can provide a letter of 
invitation.

Lijiang Studio is not a traditinoal residency in the sense of "retreat", 
a quiet haven for visiting artists to work in. Please catch up on your 
previous work before coming. Our goal is the meaningful interaction 
between local, Chinese, and non-Chinese artists, which contributes to 
the long-term development and stimulation of Lijiang. To accomplish 
this, we require several things of visiting artists:

1. The visiting artist creates project(s) which involves local people, 
those people could be common people, farmers, craftsman, children, etc.

2. The visiting artist organizes lessons, master classes, presentations, 
or workshops in Kunming or Lijiang at least twice per month.

3. During the residency period, the artist should initiate or 
participate significantly in one special event (for past examples, 
please refer to the Jianghu section on this website) according to his or 
her interest. This event should involve local artists and people, and 
may be done in collaboration with others. Lijiang Studio will help the 
artist organize this event.

A rough schedule of these requirements will be agreed upon within the 
first two weeks of the residency, and be revised according to 
circumstances. There will also be at least one mutual evaluation session 
between local artists, Lijiang Studio, and visiting artists for each 
project or residency period.

At the end of the residency period, the artist will donate some works to 
Lijiang Studio, primarily to serve as evidence of their residency and 
whatever stimulation may have come of it, and a record of their work for 
local people to access later. This work, or some version/representation 
of this work, must be available to Lijiang Studio to use for archives, 
presentations, exhibitions, web and print publishing, etc. Permissions 
for use must be discussed clearly before the visiting artist leaves 
Lijiang Studio.

Residencies are currently by invitiation. Contact us at 
info@lijiangstudio.org with your project ideas and for more information 
about applying to the residency.


Today is Shanghai time #2, une sélection de Jérémie Thircuir

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