[Art Unforbidden] [Fashion Photography] [Artist Cinema] [African Photography] [Surface Active]
[Short Films] [Face Visualizer]
Art Beijing 2009 Thematic Exhibition - Art Unforbidden
Poetic Daily - Group Exhibition by Young Chinese Artists
The development of contemporary art is a story of breaking through previously held cultural and aesthetic taste, and of using art to create the history of taste in this new era. This breakthrough is articulated in terms of both the new forms and capacities which art assumes, as well as the expansion of art's range of media and materials. "Art Unforbidden", as the regular thematic exhibition of Art Beijing, aims to present some of the most pressing contemporary artistic trends and artists. Many of the artists included in this exhibition transcend these current trends in terms of concept and form, and yet in another sense, they represent a breakthrough of present artistic reality. They are the tomorrow of art. "Art Unforbidden" is a purely academic exhibition with an international bent. Its goal is to provide a vista of the future of art.
"Poetic Daily" is the subject of 2009 "Art Unforbidden". It focuses on the younger artists whose artistic creation had combined with their life experience. "Poetic Daily" means art atmosphere is an indispensable element of normal life. When these creative young artists catch their flashy idea and image on their works, they should have the quality of "calm and peace" in mind.
Curators: Li Bin, Qian Jing
Participating Artists:
Chen Jie / Chen Wei / Guo Hongwei / Kong Liang / Li Chao / Li Wei / Luo Xiaodong / Shang Yixin / Li Fuchun / Li Mu / Zhao Yao / Li Xiaosong / Zhang Lehua / Lu Zhengyuan / Yang Xinguang / Zhuang Botao / Liang Shuo / Chen Ke / Gao Yu / Ouyang Chun / Wang Guangle / Wang Yifan / Wen Ling / Tang Yuhan / Jiang Huajun / Lv Miao
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International Fashion Photography Exhibition
An art form that fuses the spiritual with the material, the conceptual with the functional, fashion refuses to be limited to any static definition. It instead exists in a state of constant flux, shifting from moment to moment and place to place. The International Fashion Photography Exhibition will corporate with Hamburg Kennedy Photographs in New York and 8 top Chinese fashion photographers to present a visual feast of fashion photography.
Participating Artists:
Chen Man / Feng Hai / Juan Zi / San Shijing / Wang Shi / Xiao Wu / Zhang Yue / Mei Yuangui / Elliott Erwitt / Richard Avedon / Horst P. Horst / Frank Horvat / William Klein / Ralph Gibson / Albert Watson / Mark Seliger / David Drebin
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Artist Cinema
Participating Artists:
Chen Xiaoyun / Hu Jieming / Huang Kui / Liang Shaoji / Liang Yue / Lu Chunsheng / Shi Yong / Shi Qing / Song Tao / Sun Xun / Tang Maohong / Xu Zhen / Yang Fudong / Yang Zhenzhong / Zhang Ding / Zhang Qing / Zhao Bandi / Zhu Jia / Gao Shiqiang / Li Qing / Li Ming / Ye Yili / Shen Chaofang / Chen Shaoxiong / Qiu Anxiong / Wu Qiuyan / Huang Xinjian / Chen Hailu + Liao Wenwen / Li Ning / Tian Miaozi
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A Selection from the 7th African Photography Encounters in Bamako
Participating Artists:
Sammy Baloji (DRC) / Mohamed Camara (Mali) / Calvin Dondo (Zimbabwe) / Aida Muluneh (Ethiopia) / Pierrot Men (Madagascar) / Zwelethu Mtwethwa (South Africa) / Sergio Santimano (Mozambique) / Andrew Tshabangu (South Africa)
Organized as part of Festival Croisements, Supported by CultureFrance, MOMO Gallery
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Surface Active
Surface Active brings together major figures of French street art and retraces the evolution of this contemporary artistic movement. Each of the artists has his/her own particular background, mode of expression and convictions. But all have made an artistic exploration ground out of the urban space.
Participating Artists:
Mr. Chat / Jef Aerosol / Atlas
Performance Time:
2009.4.26 19:00 - 21:00
2009.4.27 14:00 - 16:00
In front of the New Hall, Agricultural Exhibition Center
Organized as part of Festival Croisements, Supported by CultureFrance
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Artist Cinema Special Projection - Shorts
About 60 films from home and abroad will be screened, including features, documentaries and experimental short films. Live concerts featuring Japanese musician Otomo Yoshihide and documentary screenings will be included as special events. Meanwhile, various panels and forums will be held to encourage exchange of views, as well as interaction between the filmmakers, the films and the audience.
Shorts to be screened:
"San Yuan Li": Experimental Documentary, Yuan Ying Hui
"Min Guo Scenery": Animation, Qiu Anxiong
"I Love Lakers" and "Medicine": Ying Liang
Time: 2009.4.28 17:30 - 21:30
Venue: CIFA - Chinese Independent Film Achieve, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Address: E06, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
Reservation deadline for guide service: April 23
Tel: (86 10) 6554 7002-824
Email: artbjvip@gmail.com
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"Face Visualizer" Performance and New Media Interactive of Japanese New Media Artist Daito Manabe
Daito Manabe is a well-known new media artist who used to be a hiphop DJ, graphic designer and computer system engineer. He will perform his crazy "Face Visualizer" which is a device that converts the impulses of the facial muscles into electronic music.
Time: 2009.4.25, 19:00 - 21:00
Venue: The Village South, Central Round Square (in front of The Orange Hall and Apple Store)
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