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C-Space, Beijing
C-Space Beijing (Chinese: C-空间) is a contemporary art gallery in the artist district of Caochangdi, in Beijing China. History C-Space was founded in 2008 by Melle Hendrikse and is dedicated on creating exhibitions with young and emerging or established artists, both from the West and China. In making these combinations, the shows have an extra dimension, they become unique little dialogues between two cultural backgrounds. Selection of Past Exhibitions 2010 * In November 2010 it marked China's "first show for Germany's performance and media artist Ulay": ''Great Walk Talk''. It includes works he produced in China from 1986 to 1988. * From June to September 2010 C-Space brought together two renowned graffiti artists Blade from the U.S. and Zhang Dali from China: ''From New York to Beijing: Graffiti - Blogging in the Street''. "The exhibition at C-Space does not pose specific questions about the complexity of being a street artist in a dictatorship but provides a low-key c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Language
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising that lifetimes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caochangdi
Caochangdi () was an urban village and renowned arts district located in the Chaoyang District of northeast Beijing at the intersection of the 5th Ring Road and Airport Expressway. Translated as "grasslands" in Mandarin, Caochangdi was home to a diverse group of residents, including migrant workers, farmers, students and artists, most notably, Ai Weiwei. Caochangdi developed into a thriving arts and cultural hub when artists began to move into the area around 2000, attracting international attention similar to the nearby 798 Art Zone.Chen, Aric"A New Frontier for Chinese Art" ''The New York Times'', April 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2009. Demolition of the village began in July 2018. History Caochangdi has changed dramatically over its history. Once unoccupied grazing land used as hunting grounds by the Imperial Court, it later became an imperial grave and garden site. During the Cultural Revolution, the region became an Agricultural People's Commune and transitioned into a farming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Van Amen
Wilhelmus Josephus (Woody) van Amen (Eindhoven August 26, 1936) is a Dutch sculptor, painter and collage artist. Education Van Amen studied at the Rotterdam Academy. His teachers included . From 1970 he taught at the same Academy. In 1959 he made the ''longest paintings in the world'', which were abstract paintings made on organ books. Pop Art From 1961 he spent two years in the United States. He was introduced to the work of American artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, pioneers in the pop art movement. These artists used everyday consumer objects in their work. Van Amen drew inspiration from this approach and made a number of paintings in which he incorporated familiar brands from the Netherlands. Back in the Netherlands, he developed his own style and at one point moved on to using other techniques. He devoted himself to assemblage art. He made his works from a variety of objects taken from everyday life. He created art that was intended to shock the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cang Xin
Cang Xin (born 1967) is an artist based in Beijing working in performance art and photography. Biography Cang Xin was born in Heilongjiang Province, China. Style Cang Xin approaches his work as a means to promote harmonious communication with nature. His works have included bathing with lizards, adorning the clothing of strangers, and prostrating himself on icy glaciers: each act represents a ritual of becoming the other. Cang Xin combines art and music. He gained an interest in art during his training in music school but never got any formal training in art. Most of his works are performance art. He was made famous by ''Communication'', a performance series where he licked various objects to become closer to them. These objects varied from bugs to posters to buildings and roads to the Great Wall of China. In another series he would swap clothes with strangers. This exhibition was called Existence in Translation and These exhibitions ties in with his shamanic beliefs that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Van Erp
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Knowledge of Aaron, along with his brother Moses, exclusively comes from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Bible and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt ( Goshen). When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman ("prophet") to the Pharaoh (). Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Aaron died before the Israelites crossed the Jordan river. According to the Book of Numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagi Groner
Sagi ( he, שגיא) is an Israeli male given name, of Hebrew origin, meaning ''"great, elevated, sublime"''. People First name *Sagi Muki (born 1992), Israeli judoka * Sagi Hartov (born 1978), Israeli-British cellist *Sagi Strauss (born 1976), retired football player Surname * Gideon Sagi (born 1939), former member of Knesset * Teddy Sagi (born 1971), London-based Israeli billionaire businessman *Yehoshua Sagi (born 1933), former member of Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ... * Uri Sagi (born 1943), retired IDF general Places * Sagi, Iran * Sagi, Pakistan See also * Japanese torpedo boat ''Sagi'', two Japanese warships * Chagi (Sagi), Indian surname * Sagittarius (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Maria Micu
Ana Maria Micu (b. 1979) is a Romanian visual artist who works and lives in Botoșani, Romania. She graduated from the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca, receiving a B.A. in Fine Arts in 2002 and an MFA in 2004. Biography Micu was born in 1979, in Botoșani, Romania. Her mother, a math teacher, encouraged her to pursue studies in mathematics. Instead, Micu elected to study fine arts in high-school, and later at the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca. She chose to study painting at a time when the trends in contemporary Romanian art favored photography, video, and conceptual art. Career Early in her career, Micu became known as a figurative painter, exploring body language and movement through informal portraiture, and incorporating paintings within paintings in her work. Her more recent work has focused on self-portraiture and the depiction of interior, personal spaces, which attempt to demonstrate that a woman approaching her 40s can live alone in an apartment and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost (born 1969, Ronse, Belgium) is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in New York and Brussels. His works are in a number of collections, including The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, who share ''Storyteller'' (2010), SMAK Gent and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His short film ''Suspension'' received an honorable mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. He has also exhibited at The San Francisco International Film Festival, CineVegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, and The Locarno Film Festival. His first feature film, '' The Invader'', premiered at the Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ... in 2011. He has lived in Belgium and Norway, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sui Jianguo
Sui Jianguo (), professor and ex-chairman of the Department of Sculpture in Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, is a contemporary Chinese artist. Biography Sui was born in Qingdao, China in 1956.Link text additional text. Both of his parents were factory workers and were largely absent during his early childhood due to the workload imposed on them by the Mao government.Link text , additional text. Growing up, Sui witnessed the harsh realities of the Mao years. During this time Maoist socialist realism became the approved art style. This style generally portrayed Maoist ideals in a romantic positive light. These images were used to create a cult of personality for Mao. At the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Dali
Zhang Dali (Chinese: 张大力, born 1963, in Harbin, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Zhang trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where he graduated in 1987. After his studies, he moved to Yuanmingyuan as a freelance artist (1987–1989) and started to show his works in independent exhibitions. He spent the years 1990–1995 in Italy, where he came into contact with graffiti art. He was the only graffiti artist in Beijing throughout the 1990s. His works cross a multitude of techniques including painting, sculpture, photography, and installations. In the four decades of his career his works were shown in more than 300 exhibitions all over the world. Biography From 1995 to 1998 he spray-painted over 2000 giant profiles of his own bald head on buildings throughout Beijing, placing the images alongside chāi () characters painted by the city authorities to indicate that a building is scheduled for demolition. The appearance of these images became the subjec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
