Belgian art historian who has been in charge of many art galleries such as Grand Palace in Paris, Tate Modern Art Museum , and has been transferred to the director of Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation. The departure may be related to the legal retirement age .
htmlIn October, the Shanghai Photography Art Center will launch the solo exhibition "Before Dawn" by photographer Nick Brandt, showing the wonderful moments of humans and endangered animals in the same frame; former director of Shanghai Museum and his daughter Chen Xiejun and his daughter Chen Ying exhibited the "landscape image" of family paintings; Huabo's cursive works were selected for the fifth national cursive Script Exhibition; in addition, 72 sculpture artists jointly outlined the "light of the city". "The Paper·Art Review" (www.thepaper.cn) "Art Characters of the Week" reports and analyzes domestic and foreign art topics and hot events.
France | Chris Dercon, director of the Grand Palais Paris, Chris Dercon,
Resigned from the Grand Palais and served as director of the Cartier Foundation
Chris Dercon © Collection Rmn – Grand Palais, Nicolas Krief
According to Artforum Chinese, Chris Dercon, who has served as director of the Grand Palais Paris since 2019, will resign and be director of the Contemporary Art Space Cartier Foundation.
French Le Monde reported that Delcon participated in the action to drive away the art fair FIAC, which will be held at the Grand Palace for a long time at the beginning of this year. The Art Nouveau Expo Parish+ organized by the parent company of the Basel Art Exhibition, will be located in the Grand Palace. As the Grand Palace is undergoing major renovations, the first Paris+ will be launched this month in the temporary pavilion of the Grand Palace. The renovation plan for the Grand Palace was chaired by Dekan and started in 2018 and is scheduled to be completed before Paris hosts the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 2024.
Before serving as director of the Grand Palace, Deken had briefly and controversially led the People's Theater in Berlin. Prior to accepting the position, he led the Tate Modern in London. The Belgian-born art historian has also served as director of the House of Art in Munich and the Boymans Van Beningen Museum and the Witt De White Gallery in Rotterdam. Le Monde pointed out that Decken's departure in the middle of his five-year term may be related to his age, because France stipulates that the retirement age of state institutions is 65 years old. Deken, 64, will not encounter such restrictions at the private Cartier Foundation. (Compiled/Wancheng)
Shanghai | British photographer Nick Brandt
"Before Dawn", a wonderful moment for humans and endangered animals in the same frame
Nick Brandt
From October 15 to December 31, the Shanghai Photography Art Center will exhibit the series of works by British photographer Nick Brandt 's "Before Dawn" . So far, "Before Dawn" may be the clearest concern and expression of environmental issues in his career: he devotes his photography work to the mission of environmental protection throughout his life. Although the scenes presented in the work are far from urban life in Shanghai, the uncertainty permeates the picture and affects all of us. Faced with the damage caused by climate change to the earth's environment, these works try to let us put aside our utopian fantasies and think about the true impact of each of us on the earth and the environment.
Exhibition poster
Nick Brandt was born and raised in London, where he first studied painting and film. In 1995, he went to Tanzania with singer Michael Jackson to direct the award-winning MTV "Song of the Earth". Brandt was moved by what he saw and heard in East Africa and decided to use photography to reflect the environmental problems facing this rich land today. In 2010, Brandt co-founded the Great Life Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Kenya /Tanzania. There, he hired more than 300 local rangers to protect the 1.6 million acres of ecosystem in Amboseli/Kirimanzaro. He now lives in the mountainous area of , south of California, .
In the "Before Dawn" series, Nick Brandt uses the elegant and moving atmosphere created by the combination of animals and characters to bring dramatic focus to his work.He used this to express the situation that all living things on the earth are facing: under the influence of climate change and natural disasters, wild animals are displaced, and humans are also unable to survive. The expansion of human living space has led to this situation even worse, and has gradually reduced other natural resources relying on for survival. Many farmers can only give up their livelihoods and are forced to wander in areas with concentrated resources. By placing animals and humans in the same picture, Nick Brandt shows us a "collective" of shared destiny, just like our shared homeland on Earth.
Nick Brandt, Harriet and the People in the Fog, Zimbabwe , 2020
The first part of this series was completed in Kenya and Zimbabwe in East Africa in 2020, and the second part was completed in 2022 at Bolivia in South America. Although these two areas are recognized as wildlife paradise, the most important species in the area face unprecedented threats.
Founder of Shanghai Photography Center Liu Xiangcheng believes that Nick Brandt has shown considerable photography skills and talents in portrait shooting of African people and endangered animals. He did this without any photographic retouching, and by using common light bulbs, he attracted us into the state of depicted humans and animals. This is an exhibition that allows viewers to reflect on themselves. (Text/Wencheng)
Shanghai | Chen Xiejun and Chen Ying
Songjiang will exhibit "Landscape Images" family painting
October 12th to November 13th, the "Landscape Images - Chen Xiejun and Chen Ying's Family Painting Exhibition" will be held in the Yunjian Art Space in Yunjian Granary, Songhui District, to exhibit the paintings of Chen Xiejun, former director of the Shanghai Museum and his daughter Chen Ying. During the exhibition period, the album of the same name will also be released.
The water in the pillow is accompanied by the pine wind Chen Xiejun Chen Ying Solid oil painting 2020
Chen Xiejun, born in Shanghai in July 1952, native of Ningbo, Zhejiang. He studied for a doctoral degree in the Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and was the director of the Shanghai Museum. Chen Ying, born in Shanghai in 1981. In 2003, he graduated from , Fudan University School of Management . In 2007, he received a master's degree in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Currently engaged in financial work, and is dedicated to painting creation and art education in his spare time.
The idea of watching the mountains after the rain Chen Xiejun Chinese painting 2021
Light smoke produces far-flung forest Chen Ying Solid oil painting 2021
"Landscape Images - Chen Xiejun Chen Ying Family Painting Exhibition" and the album have a total of 336 works. The art exhibition and album have three major sections, namely "pursuing classic mountains and water", "the meaning and image of language conversion", and "light and color in the Internet era". The first section has 50 works, the second section has 230 works, and the third section has 56 works.
Chen Xiejun believes that pursuing classics is an important orientation for theoretical research and creative practice of "landscape images". There are classics recognized and admired by future generations in the history of Chinese landscape painting, classics of Chinese landscape works collected in museums, art galleries, and memorial halls, classics of "painting history, painting theory, and painting coexistence" in painting theories of all dynasties, and classics of "painting history, painting theory, and paintings coexist" in the study and research of Chinese landscape painting methods and techniques, and will focus on classics that have been passed down through the ages.
The works exhibited this time include both Chinese painting and oil painting. Using Western painting language to convert the traditional Chinese landscape language is an artistic practice carefully tried by the father and daughter of Chen's . They used oil paintings on cloth, oil paintings on paper, and solid oil painting languages to explore the ink and wash languages of traditional Chinese landscape paintings, compare the cultural contexts of Western landscape paintings and Chinese landscape paintings, and analyze the similarities and differences between oil painting languages and Chinese landscape languages. In the process of exploring the meaning and image of language transformation, we will not forget the original intention of the development of Chinese landscape painting, and always take the elevations and highlights of painting history and painting theory as the starting point of experiments. (Text/Wancheng)
Shanghai | Calligrapher Huabo
selected for the National Fifth Cursive Works Exhibition
Huabo
National Fifth Cursive Works Exhibition recently announced the exhibition list, and the cursive work of Shanghai calligrapher Huabo "Send the Japanese Tripitaka Kūkai people to the Emperor and I Tang Dynasty to pay tribute to the local objects and return to the Haidong" was selected.
Huabo cursive writing "Poems for sending Japanese Tripitaka Kūkai to the Emperor and I Tang Dynasty to pay tribute to the local things and return to the east of the sea" Zhu Qiancheng [Tang Dynasty] "Poems for sending Japanese Tripitaka Kūkai to the Emperor and I Tang Dynasty to pay tribute to the local things and return to the east of the sea" Interpretation: The ancient appearance of Wan Xiugong, talks about the real bitterness and emptiness. It should be passed down from the Sixth Patriarch to transform into the island barbarians. I went to Qin Que last year and went to the east of the sea this spring. The majesty and etiquette are easy to use in the old style, and the writing is the most important thing in the Confucian clan. The subtle purpose of studying abroad is to worship the law of Yunguan. The road to the storm is endless, how can the road to the shaking tin is poor? The water roars and the golden chimes are ringing, and the clouds are walking to serve the jade boy. He met the wise master, and he was a monk's family style
Huabo is a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association , a member of the Cursive Script Professional Committee of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, and a vice chairman of the Yangpu District Calligraphers Association. In recent years, he has been studying classic works of cursive masters such as Zhang Xu , Huang Tingjian , Wang Duo , Fu Shan , etc. He has taken Wang Duo's brushwork as the basis and incorporated the brushwork of Huang and Fu. He has been exhibited and won awards many times in the national and Shanghai Calligraphy Exhibition.
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Scholars of all generations, such as Huang Zunxian, Chapter Taiyan , Zhu Guantian , etc., generally believe that Japanese calligraphers Kōkai (774-835) created Hiragana in cursive script after returning from studying in the Tang Dynasty , forming an important part of Japanese characters. When Hua Bo was studying the cursive script of Master Kukai in Japan, he found that Zhu Qiancheng of the Tang Dynasty said goodbye to Kōkai and returned to the country with the poem "The majestic style is easy to use, and the writing is the most important Confucian scholar. Studying abroad is subtle, and the guardian law is respected" can be understood as the preliminary preparations for creating Japanese Hiragana during his visit to the Tang Dynasty, and it was highly recognized by the scholars and officials of the Tang Dynasty. Huabo created a series of works such as 8-foot paper cursive banners and two 2.4-meter-long hand scrolls of running and cursive script to commemorate the contributions made by Kōkai in the history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges. Among them, 8-foot paper cursive script banners were selected for the fifth national cursive script exhibition.
In his research, Hua Bo believes that Master Konghai is Zhang Xu's re-transmitter, and Zhang Xu is known as the " Cao Sheng " in the history of Chinese calligraphy. . There are many comments in the book theory of the Tang Dynasty. For example, "The lonely porch rises by itself, and the sand is shocked to fly", "The birds fly out of the forest, and the snakes are shocked into the grass", "The hairpin is broken", "The cone is drawn to the sand", etc. Hua Bo said that he was very interested in Zhang Xu's mental state when he created cursive script. "Self-resistance" and "sitting flight" are both advanced realms in Chinese traditional culture . This state of mind first requires breaking away from the constraints and bonds of solidified material conditions, pursuing the most truth, the most good, and the most beautiful, and then being integrated with natural changes. In the history of Chinese culture, both the "sitting and forgetting theory" of Yan Hui, the "scattering the embrace first" of Cai Yong, and the "showing the body of Jia Yi, and the "transcendence and self-destruction" of Jia Yi, are in line with Zhang Xu's enlightenment of "the lonely porch rises and the shocking sand sits flying". In addition to being innocent and natural, the essence of cursive script creation must also be abandoned and eliminated. First, achieve "being born outside the ancient methods" and then "to pass on oneself to establish one's own law."
On October 18, the Shanghai Citizen Art Exhibition will open. Huabo Cursive Shop Song Dynasty Wu Yan "Sending Huipo Zhao Fuyang to Gaoyou Yuanmu" will also participate in the exhibition. The work won the second prize of the 9th Shanghai Citizen Art Exhibition Calligraphy Special Exhibition. (Text/Wancheng)
Shanghai | 72 sculpture artists
00 sculptures outline "City Light"
Recently, the "City Light-2022 Shanghai Urban Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Art Expo" was launched in Xiyingmen, Shanghai. This expo gathers 72 representative contemporary Chinese artists such as Cai Jiangnan, Cao Jingyu, Guyuan, Chen Wenling and , with more than 300 works. The works are diverse in form, bringing a comprehensive development of contemporary sculpture installations to the Shanghai public.
"City Light—2022 Shanghai Urban Contemporary Sculpture in Installation Art Expo" exhibited works
Expo includes a theme exhibition called "Regeneration" focusing on ecological and environmental protection; two special exhibitions praising the "life" of life and "Huaiyuan" that promotes oriental aesthetics; two special exhibitions named "Extraordinary Environment", "Sauce Purple", "Color", "Day", "Jingzhe", "World", "Everyone", "Ideal Country", "Myth", "Legend", "Legend", "Future Poetics Research", and "Spring"; a special art project called "Buddha Transformation"; an art derivative area called "Art Green Code"; and an opening forum with the theme of "Art Expression in the Commercial Era".
two special exhibitions "life" and "huaiyuan", focusing their attention on life and the distance respectively. The former uses an anthropocentristic viewing method to keep in mind the creation of heaven and earth, present the way of life's movement in a square and inch, and feel the excitement and beauty of life; the latter grasps the core concept of traditional Chinese aesthetics and leads people to experience the rhythm of great transformation and flow in a way that transcends matter and reality. "Sauce purple" and "color" use popular terms in today's online environment to embed publicity into the chain of art communication, so that the public can feel artistic interest in a relaxed and humorous atmosphere.
In the twelve special exhibitions, "Jingzhe", "Future Poetics Research" and "Spring" are all continuations of the exploration of Chinese aesthetics. "Extraordinary environment" creates a fantasy dream different from the real context; "Ideal Country" builds a peach blossom land for the public to rest; "myth" leads people to the spiritual fabrication of a better life and the pursuit of mysterious power by ancient people; "Legend" points to the unpredictable situation that is understood by the infinite extension of human power.
is different from exhibitions in art galleries and museums. This exhibition is located in a commercial space and reflects the diversity of exhibition forms. Art critic Chen Xiaoxin said at the exhibition forum that art enters business and the public, and plays its responsibilities and role more fully.
Regarding the relationship between art and commerce, art critic Jia Fangzhou said: "Looking back, in the mid-Qing Dynasty, the rise of Eight Eccentrics of in Yangzhou was inseparable from the prosperous commerce of Yangzhou . Since then, the emergence of railways and the access to waterways have led to the international metropolis Shanghai, and Shanghai paintings are also facilitated by commerce. Therefore, the importance of commerce to art is self-evident. Art transforms into commerce This intermediate link is completed by practitioners of commercial entities such as galleries, fairs, auctions, brokers, etc. Without this level, artworks cannot be converted into commodities. The curator of this exhibition, Li Xiaofeng, brought the very serious art from art galleries and museums into commercial spaces, which reflects a new demand, namely, how artworks can integrate with commodities in special spaces and convert them into commodities in consumers' daily lives. "The expo will last until March 26, 2023. (Text/Xu Minghui)
