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Exhibition Dates: 26 Jun – 30 Sept, 2010
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Artists list: Chen Yongwei, Cheng Ran, Gao Mingyan, Hu Xiangqian, Hu Xiaoxiao, Hu Yun, Liao Fei, Li Mu, Li Ming, Liu Yin, Lu Jiawei, Lu Pingyuan, Lu Yang, Tang Dixin, Ye Linghan, Zhang Fang, Zhang Lehua, Zhao Zhao, Zhen Huan …
Project is recommended and introduction text written by Biljana Ciric, independent curator based in Shanghai
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Group Exhibit: Paralinear
Exhibition Dates: 17 Apr – 21 Jun, 2010
Curator: Aric Chen
Artists: Colin Chinnery, Eko Nugroho, Li Yongbin, Liang Wei, Jennifer Wen Ma, Wang Chuan
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Group Exhibit: Water - Caochangdi PhotoSpring
Opening Date of Caochangdi Photospring : Apr 17
Closing Date of The Opening Week: April 22
Exhibit Dates: Apr 17 - Jun 21, 2010
Artists: Anais Martane, Isaac Julien, Liu Jin, Liu Zheng, Lois Conner, Nadav Kander, WassinkLundgren, Wang Chuan and Wang Qingsong
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Wang Qiongsong, Solo Exhibit: Three Video Projects
Exhibition Dates: 23 Jan – 12 Apr, 2010
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Tsang Kin-Wah: First Solo Exhibit in Beijing
Exhibition Dates: 24 Oct, 2009 – 15 Jan, 2010
Venue: ;Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
What are TRUTH and REALITY? Do they exist? Can people perceive or find them out? And how?
Generally, those concepts and ideas accepted and believed by the majority would be considered as “Truth” or “Reality”, but is it really the case or they are just relatively “true” and “real”? We can say that the so-called “Truth” and “Reality” are subjective, temporal and regional.
Hong Kong-based artist Tsang’s text-based works were recently on exhibit at KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. KIASMA installation:
“Combining the foul language (text) with the floral pattern (image) and arranging the text in the form of flowers and plants, which are swirling and running throughout the space, creates different layers of interpretation in which image is the embellishment, the surface while text (foul language) and the emotions attached are the latent and the fundamental. At first glace, the works appear to be mere graphic drawings, yet on closer inspection, the lines of the piece are actually carefully drawn words and phrases, giving the prints an entirely new dimension.”
Bai Yiluo: First Solo Exhibit at Pekin Fine Arts
Exhibition Dates: 24 Oct, 2009 – 15 Jan, 2010
Venue: ;Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Bai’s installation works were most recently exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, and the Nanjing Triennale (2008).
Bai’s works combine photography techniques, sculpture installation and painting.
Eko Nugroho: Under the Shadow, First Solo Exhibit in China
Exhibition Dates: 15 Aug – 18 Oct, 2009
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Eko’s works were recently on exhibit in the Busan Biennale (2008) and the Guangzhou Triennale (2008). Using cartoons as his basic form of expression, Eko Nugroho explores various mediums including paintings, drawings, wall murals, animations, embroideries, three-dimensional objects and installations. Eko heads a group of young Indonesian artists who use comics as their main tool of artistic discource seemingly approaching sociopolitical issues through cheerful, playful and humorous perspectives, although at the same time he transmits bitter and sarcastic messages to critique universal issues.
Colin Chinnery: I Want What You Want
Exhibition Dates: 15 Aug – 18 Oct, 2009
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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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Marvin Mintofang, Sculpture Projects
Exhibition Dates: 9 May – 15 June 2009
Opening Reception: 9 May, 2009, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
In his 2nd solo exhibit at Pekin Fine Arts, Marvin Mintofang’s latest work combines the interests of an artist, an architect of public space, and a botanist with a keen eye for garden design. Grouping a large number of camphor-carved “trees-reborn from trees” in the gallery space, resulting in a peculiar Chinese garden of hand-manicured flora and fauna. Mintofang’s garden is interactive and tactile rather than meditative, and is comprised of sweet smelling wood sculpted trees, marble and concrete installation, and painted tree images covering the gallery walls.
Seoul-based sculpture artist Bae Hyung Kyung’s first Beijing exhibit includes a monumental installation of Buddhist luo han each “housed” in a life-size packing crate, piled one on top another. Visually, the stockpiling of luo han’s alludes to the dismantling and re-building of Buddhist temples. Implicitly bearing witness to the exponential growth in cross-border trade and communication between Seoul and Beijing resulting in nearly a quarter million persons of Korean ethnicity living in Beijing.
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Bae Hyung Kyung, Sculpture Projects
Exhibition Dates: 9 May – 15 June 2009
Opening Reception: 9 May, 2009, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
Seoul-based sculpture artist Bae Hyung Kyung’s first Beijing exhibit includes a monumental installation of Buddhist luo han each “housed” in a life-size packing crate, piled one on top another. Visually, the stockpiling of luo han’s alludes to the dismantling and re-building of Buddhist temples. Implicitly bearing witness to the exponential growth in cross-border trade and communication between Seoul and Beijing resulting in nearly a quarter million persons of Korean ethnicity living in Beijing.
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Peripheral Vision
Exhibition Dates: 21 Feb – 30 Apr 2009
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
In his 2nd solo-show at Pékin Fine Arts, the Beijing-based Taiwanese artist Huang Zhiyang coins the term 'Peripheral Vision' to illustrate his critical stance toward the contemporary art scene in general and the Beijing scene in particular.
Huang explains, “ My most recently completed work is born from my status living on the outskirts of Beijing. Maintaining this marginal status leaves me feeling increasingly ambivalent toward many of life’s realities. My work is the product of this tension between a life on the periphery and the inevitable attitude of ambivalence resulting there-from. In Chinese, the title of my exhibit is literally translated as “Forever on the Periphery”.
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Pekin Fine Arts: Group Exhibition
Accumulation
Exhibition Dates: 13 Dec 2008 – 16 Feb 2009
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Artists: Aniwar, Bai Yiluo, Choi Jeong-Hwa, He Yunchang, Huang Zhiyang, Billy Lee, Li Yao, Marvin Mintofang, Peter Sandbichler, Suling Wang, Wu Shanzhuan, Yeh Yi-li.
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Kohei Nawa (b. 1975 Osaka), PixCell (PRISM), Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 7 – November 30, 2008
Opening Reception: September 7, 2008, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
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Movana Chen (Hong Kong) Solo Project : Two-Way Communication Beijing
Exhibition Dates: September 7 – October 31, 2008
Opening Reception: September 7, 2008, from 2 to 6 pm
Venue: Pekin Fine Art, No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
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Group Exhibition: Food and Shelter at Pekin Fine Arts
Exhibition Dates: 13 July - 31 August, 2008
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts: No.241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Artists: Bai Yiluo, Jiang Di, Lian Dongya, Nadav Kander, Neville Mars, Sheng Tianhong, Wang Gongxin, Wang Qiongsong, Wang Jin, Weng Fen, Zhang Huan, Zhang O
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"Spring Training, Beijing 2008" Group Exhibition at Pekin Fine Arts
Exhibition Dates: 10 May - 30 June, 2008
Opening Reception: 2 - 6 pm, Saturday 10 May, 2008
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts
Artist: Jin Shan, Lois Conner, Shao Yinong / Mu Chen, Wang Chuan, Wang Jin, Yeh Yi-Li, Master Kite Maker Sun Jing
Office dA Architects, Voroduo: A Site Specific Installation at Pekin Fine Arts
Exhibition Dates: 26 January - 30 April, 2008
Opening Reception: 2 - 6 pm, Saturday 26 January, 2008
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts
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Suling Wang: Shakadang Loops, oil and acrylic on canvas, 245 x 200 cm, 96.53 x 78.8 inches, 2007
Suling Wang: New Works
Exhibition Dates: 1 November, 2007- 15 January, 2008
Opening Reception: 2 - 6 pm, Saturday 1 November, 2007
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts
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Perry Hall: Ferro Paint
Perry Hall: Paint Video and Sound Drawing
Exhibition Dates: 1 November, 2007 - 15 January, 2008
Opening Reception: 2 - 6 pm, Saturday 1 November, 2007
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts
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Jin Shan: Desperate Pee, Mixed Media Intallation, 165 x 35 x 50 cm 2007
Marvin Minto Fang: New Works: Ah Cho and Art Cho, Mixed Media Installation, 2007
Aida Makoto: The Video of A Man Calling Himself Bin Laden Staying in Japan, Video Installation, 2005
Three Generations
Exhibition Dates: 17th Oct - 13th Nov 2007
Opening Ceremony: 4pm,16th Oct., 2007
Venue: Beijing Today Art Museum: Building 4, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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Huang Zhiyang: Zoon - Beijing Bio (Detail), 475 x 140 cm, Ink Painting on Silk, 2006
Zhang O: Daddy & I, C-Print, 51 x 51 cm, Edition 5, 2006
Huang Zhiyang: Zoon - Beijing Bio
Zhang O: Daddy & I
Exhibition Dates: 26 May - 15 August, 2007
Opening Reception: 2 - 6 pm, Saturday 26 May 2007
Venue: Pekin Fine Arts : No. 241 Cao Chang Di Village, Cui Ge Zhuang, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100015
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