Qian Xue'er Lu Lin Han 畹町
In the recently opened 2021 "Sino-French Cultural Spring", French photographer Antoine D'Agata unveiled his solo exhibition in Beijing, he used his camera to find the "original appearance" of life from the first day of the New Crown lockdown in France; in Shanghai, the host and actor Lin Dongfu sketched the portrait of the legendary figure of jazz with a paintbrush, showing his artistic quest off-screen.
Recently, U.S. President Joe Biden proposed a $201 million grant to the National Endowment for the Arts, which, if approved by Congress, would be the largest national arts fund budget increase in U.S. history. A related survey showed that more than three-quarters of U.S. museums saw an average 40 percent drop in operating income during the pandemic closures. In New York, Shanghai and Yuhang, Zhejiang, solo exhibitions and projects have recently been presented. The Paper, Art Review, "Art Figures of the Week", reports and analyzes art topic figures and hot events at home and abroad.
Beijing | French photographer Antoine D'Agata
Antoine d'AGATA © Gilles Pandel
The Paper has learned that from June 6 to August 15, 2021, photography artist Antoine d'Agata's solo exhibition "The Origin of Life" and the exhibition unit of the Sino-French Cultural Spring will be exhibited at the Beijing Guangshe Image Center.
In March 2021, due to the outbreak of the new crown virus, Antoine D'́Gata walked the streets of Paris with a thermal imaging camera from the first day of the lockdown in France, documenting in his own way the great urban transformation caused by the virus, recording the souls wandering in front of unfamiliar theaters and the figures fleeing with their heads bowed.
Antoine D'́Gata's work takes the form of an autobiography, an account of a disorderly journey through time and a close encounter with a world of violence.
Lockdown, Clichy Avenue, Paris, France, March 17 ©, 2020 Antoine d'Agata | Magnum Photos.
Antoine D'Agata was born in Marseille, France in 1961. He left France in 1983 for 10 years exploring the world. Developing a keen interest in photography, he began studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York in 1991 under the tutelage of Larry Clark and South Goldin. After returning to France in 1993, he published his first collections of photographs Mala Muerte and Mala Noche in 1998. In 1999, he began working for Vu Pictures in France. In 2001, he won the Niépce Award for Young Photographers for Hometown.
The solo exhibition, which contains works on these different themes, presents the fruits of D'Agata's 13 years of work around the world, as he notes: "What matters is not how photographers see the world, but their close relationship to it." ”
Guangshe Imaging Center is located in Building 56, No. 12 Zhuyuan Road, Shunyi District, Beijing. (Finishing / Hatamachi)
United States | President Joe Biden
Proposed budget increase for the largest National Endowment for the Arts in U.S. history
Joe Biden. Image: Gage Skidmore/Wikipedia Commons
According to ARTFORUM Chinese network, US President Joe Biden recently proposed a $201 million grant to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as part of its $6 trillion budget. Compared to this year, the plan will increase the National Endowment for the Arts' budget by $33.5 million, or 20 percent, which would be the largest budget increase for the organization since its founding in 1965.
If Congress approves the 2022 budget, Biden's budget, which addresses issues such as infrastructure, education and climate change, would be the largest expansion of federal spending in the United States since World War II. Under the program, in addition to the NEA, museum and library institutions will receive $265 million in grants ($8 million more than this year) and the National Endowment for the Humanities will receive $177.5 million ($10 million more than this year).
In a notable context, a recent survey of 1,400 U.S. museum directors showed that 15 percent of curators were concerned about facing a "significant risk of permanent closure" due to financial difficulties caused by the pandemic, or that they "didn't know" if the institution would be able to spend the year without additional financial support.
According to the survey data, more than three-quarters of museums have seen an average 40% drop in operating income during the closure period of the pandemic. Nearly half of organizations have lost an average of 29 percent of their workforce, and only 44 percent plan to reptake within the next year.
Laura Lott, president of the American Alliance of Museums, said in a statement posted on its website: "It will take several years for the museum sector to return to pre-pandemic levels of staffing, income and community engagement. Federal relief programs put far fewer museums at risk of permanent closure than expected. However, during the pandemic, the museum's average income has fallen by 40%, and the financial recovery process is expected to be slow. ”
It is also reported that after the launch of the EU's largest cultural fund project "Creative Europe" in 2013, on May 26, the European Commission officially launched the "Creative Europe" project for 2021-2027. It is understood that the first year (2014-2020) budget is 1.46 billion euros, while the current annual budget is 2.4 billion euros. In 2021, around €300 million will be used to help practitioners and artists in all sectors of the cultural industry collaborate across disciplines and borders in order to identify more opportunities and reach new audiences. The legal basis for the project is expected to be formally adopted in early June, and the first tenders for the project will be announced in the following weeks. (Finishing / Hatamachi)
New York | Artist Mikarin Thomas
Reconstructing the black female body with collages, transcending the "pleasure principle" in four places
Micarine Thomas
Recently, Li Weige Gallery announced that it will hold an international exhibition "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" for American artist Mickalene Thomas in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong in the fall of 2021. The exhibition will feature mikarin thomas's paintings, installations and videos, expanding her decades-long exploration of black female body imagery.
The exhibition title" Beyond the Pleasure Principle is a fusion of two titles of works that inspired Thomas's creations. "The Pleasure Principle," from Janet Jackson's album Control, is an ode to love, loss, and female empowerment, while The Pleasure Principle is Sigmund Freud's landmark 1920 treatise, in which Freud's essay assumes the connection between id, repression, free association, and libido.
Mickalene Thomas, Jet Blue #25 (partial), 2021
By cross-referencing Jackson and Freud to name the exhibition, Thomas indicates her artistic, philosophical, and political intentions specific to black women.
Critic Sasha Bonnet described collage as "a historical practice of the black imagination that helps us envision an unfathomable future in the face of violence and uncertainty." Thomas's use of collages gathers different sources of inspiration—both by his black predecessors, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold, who broke with the conventions of European modernism by incorporating African art, oral history, and quilted aesthetics; and formal innovations developed by artists Such as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. These forms are revalued, transformed, and deconstructed in Thomas's work. Thomas used collage as a tool, a language, to radicalize and reimagine the black female body as an urgently motivated subject across a variety of mediums, movements, and eras. (Finishing/Qian Xueer)
Shanghai | host and actor Lin Dongfu
Sketch portraits of jazz legends with paintbrushes
Lin Dongfu
On June 5th, the "Portrait Exhibition of Sir Lin Dongfu in Paris in April" opened at the Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai. This is also one of the special events of the "Sino-French Cultural Spring" in 2021.
Lin Dongfu was born in Shanghai in 1957. He is best known for his early years as a translator and producer and later as a television host, as well as for his television characters. He has loved painting since childhood, and insisted on self-study sketching when he was young. Since 2013 he has regained his brushwork under the italian painter Matteo Massagrande, using blues and jazz as his subjects.
Lin Dongfu, Myers Davis oil on canvas
Lin Dongfu, who loves jazz, has gone to the United States, Canada and other countries several times in order to find the source of jazz, and constantly explores the soil and humanistic feelings that bred early blues music along the Mississippi River. He also collected old black-and-white photographs of blues and jazz legends, trying to translate the light and shadow of the photographs into the light and shadow of the paintings, and looking for the color of their skins from the old black and white photographs.
The exhibition features 46 portraits of jazz legends created by Lin Dongfu. Including the famous jazz musicians Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Billie Halledet, most of these musicians have played or sung the classic "Paris in April". From classical blues to swing music to modern jazz, they were landmark legends, but these black musicians did not have equal rights to life in the United States at that time. Lin Dongfu recreated the vivid image of musical legends with a paintbrush. In addition, the exhibition presents 26 of his pen sketches of figures and landscapes. The exhibition will be on view until June 20. (Text/Lu Linhan)
Shanghai | The bookworm is single-minded
Calligraphy works commemorate the 141st anniversary of the birth of Master Koichi
of one mind
On June 5, an exhibition to commemorate the 140th and 141st anniversaries of the birth of Master Hongyi, "Meet hongyi yixin calligraphy art exhibition", opened at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, an exhibition originally scheduled for 2020 that has been postponed until this year due to the epidemic.
Master Hongyi, formerly known as Li Shutong, was born in Tianjin in 1880 and was originally from Pinghu, Zhejiang. He was a pioneer of China's new cultural movement and made extraordinary achievements in the fields of culture, art and education. In his early years, Master Hongyi stayed in Japan to study Western modern art, was the founder of Chinese drama, introduced Western music, pioneered art education, and was also a pioneer in art advertising and modern binding art. After becoming a monk in middle age, he practiced the bodhisattva path with the spirit of Puxian and was particularly profound. In 1942, Master Hongyi passed away in Quanzhou, leaving behind a four-character masterpiece "The Intersection of Sorrow and Joy".
Yixin, born in 1971, learned calligraphy since childhood. In 1990, he began to study Master Hongyi's calligraphy, golden stones, poetry and Buddhist thought, and in Quanzhou, he visited Elder Yuanhuo and Elder Miaolian, disciples of Master Hongyi, and became a re-disciple of Master Hongyi. The 77 single-minded calligraphy works on display reflect the atmosphere of Master Hongyi's "plain, tranquil, and rushing".
Yixin calligraphy works at the exhibition site
"After the death of Master Hongyi, Zhao Puchu held an exhibition of master Hongyi's calligraphy in the 1980s, and then he rarely had the opportunity to see a large-scale exhibition of Hongyi calligraphy." Song Yuanbo, the producer of the exhibition, introduced. Since 2000, the ink works of Master Hongyi have been exhibited all over China, and through the exhibition of "Hongshi" calligraphy, it is not only the spiritual practice of the bookmaker himself, but also allows the audience to get close to the art and personality of Master Hongyi between the inkblots. The exhibition will be on view until June 20. (Text/Hatacho)
Yuhang, Zhejiang | Architect Lin Chunran
Using jade as an architectural concept, the Nobel Ceramics Cultural Center was designed
Lin Zhenran
Recently, CROX Kuohe Architects, led by Lin Chunran, announced that the Nobel Ceramics Cultural Center designed by lin is about to be completed.
The building is located in Yuhang, Zhejiang, Hangjiahu Plain and the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, based on the construction of industrial culture, with an area of 7,000 square meters, is a public building facing the society. Lin Chunran said, "In the 'dawn of Chinese civilization' - the birthplace of Liangzhu culture topographic plastic building, I hope to recreate the spirit of 'Chun' and transform the cultural relics of 'Li Tiandi Sifang' into a space that carries nature." ”
Architectural model of the Nobel Ceramic Cultural Center
The architectural posture is unfolded from the round place of the sky, and through the mountain shape surrounded by Chaoshan, Mid-Levels and Linping Mountain, it forms a flowing curve, which is extracted to form a kind of freehand slope roof. The limited space in front of the main building is designed with a mirrored pool, forming a beautiful and orderly posture under different lights and shadows, guiding people into the lobby through a raised entrance, and the light spills through the gap of the arc of the large board, full of a sense of ceremony.
Lin Chunran was born in Taiwan, stepped into urban planning, architectural interior, art curation, has participated in the Milan Triennale and venice biennale, etc., in the architect's view, the concept of jade as the building generation, in the essential sense of the continuation of the traditional layout of reverence for heaven and earth, such as the undulating slope roof echoes the earth, the hollow inner courtyard contains natural harmony, resulting in the symbolic meaning of cultural relics and buildings with the same attributes, here created a field of mutual growth between heaven, earth, things and people, This creates a dialogue between the new building and the existing factory. (Finishing/Qian Xueer)
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