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1 [Shanghai] Jia Aili: Mangyuan
Exhibition time: November 10, 2021 - May 29, 2022
Venue: Tank Art Center
Tickets: 50 yuan
Jia Aili, Part of High Noon, Acrylic on canvas, 400 x 1000 cm
2021 Jia Aili Studio. 摄影: Yang Chao Studio
Image source: Tank Art Center
Jia Aili, born in 1979 in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, studied practical art in a vocational high school when he was young, the encouragement of the art teacher ignited his dream of being a painter, and after three consecutive years of falling on the list, he was admitted to the oil painting department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts with the first place in the professional class. He used the word "wild racing" to describe himself, "Painting this thing, the pursuit of what I love, for the ideal, from a good family teenager, into a wild soarer." 」 His works have been exhibited in the United States, Britain, Italy, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and he is known for his "big paintings", which are huge in size and give people an epic feeling.
"Mangyuan" is Jia Aili's first large-scale solo exhibition in China in recent years, and this exhibition presents four huge works, showing the audience the artist's in-depth thinking about art and life in recent years, as well as continuous innovation and self-breakthrough in painting. It is worth mentioning that the work "Mang Original Manuscript" (2021) specially created for this exhibition is Jia Aili's largest painting to date. Curator Shen Qilan wrote, "Mangyuan is not a wilderness, the past overlapped and overlapped, weeds and life sprouted in the ruins, and there were gods fighting on the marble. Human beings travel through the interweaving of time and space, the arena of disorder and rationality, the spiraling rise and fall of all things, the past, the future and the present at the same time. From the title to the painting itself, it is reminiscent of the English poet Eliot's long poem "The Wasteland."
Ukiyo-e Dream: Ukiyo-e 5D Immersive Art Exhibition
Exhibition time: December 10, 2021 - March 27, 2022
Venue: Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum
Tickets: From 108 yuan
"Moon Hundred Zi / Cao Cao"
Image source: Shanghai Himalayan Art Museum
Ukiyo-e art exhibitions in Shanghai in recent years are not uncommon, but the "Ukiyo-e Dream" currently being held at the Himalayan Art Museum should not disappoint you. In the first section, "Dreaming", the audience will step into the ukiyo-e dream in a 5D immersive art space of more than 1,500 square meters - 60 surround stereos play original music inspired by ukiyo-e, 80 sets of the world's top projection special effects equipment make ukiyo-e come to life, and the digital interaction design full of surprises can even make you feel the wonderful feeling of white cotton snow falling in the palm of your hand.
The "Dream" section brings together nearly 150 collection-level works from the Edo to Meiji periods, including Kitagawa Katsumi, Katsushika Hokusai, and Hiroshige Utagawa, as well as ukiyo-e masters such as Harunobu Suzuki, Higashisu Saikura, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Yoshinen Tsukioka, as well as rare orphan works. It is worth mentioning that this exhibition also features ukiyo-e works based on the classic Chinese literature "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", in order to show the influence of Chinese culture on Japanese art. The exhibition site will also hold tea ceremony, flower ceremony, and incense ceremony performances, leading the audience to experience the charm of traditional Japanese culture in an all-round way.
Zhao Zhao
Exhibition time: January 16 - April 3
Venue: Long Museum
Tickets: 280 RMB (Pass)
Zhao Zhao, Part of Starry Sky, oil on canvas, 300 x 200cm
2021 Zhao Zhao, Center for Contemporary Tang Art
Image source: Long Museum
This is the artist Zhao Zhao's first large-scale solo exhibition in Shanghai, showing the artist's most important works in recent years, including the "Starry Sky, Sky" series, "Spread" series, "China Ladder" series, "Control" series, "Death" series, etc., as well as more than 40 artists' collections and works displayed in the display case. The exhibition begins with the huge scale of "Starry Sky" and "Sky", which are the two longest series of Zhao Zhao's paintings, and are also a time and space metaphor for the entire exhibition, one from the endless night and the other from the vast blue sky. The "Starry Sky" series originated from Zhao Zhao's experience of accidentally breaking the windshield in a car accident. Those unexpected cracks, the scattered stars, like the starry sky at night, inspired the artist's impulse to depict it as a work. The "Sky" series blends different forms of reality and history, and it comes from the artist's travels in many countries and cities over the past decade, from parts of the sky in Renaissance paintings, to the appearance of clouds in ancient Chinese paintings, to the blue sky above Manhattan in New York, a Piece of Prussian blue over a small European town, or the only changed scene in a small window of Beijing.
The Year of the Tiger Smile - The Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan
Exhibition time: January 18 to February 27
Venue: Shanghai Museum (Hall and Chinese Painting Museum)
Admission: Free
Blue-and-white tiger bamboo figure twelve-shaped disc, 19th century
Akira Arita, Japan
Collection of Kyushu National Museum, Japan, donated by Kogun Country Club
Image source: Shanghai Museum
In order to welcome the Year of the Tiger and the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, the Shanghai Museum and the Kyushu National Museum in Japan jointly held the "Year of the Tiger - Spring Festival Exhibition of the Year of the Tiger in China and Japan". A total of 10 tiger-themed cultural relics (including online exhibits) were exhibited in this exhibition, including 6 fine cultural relics from the collection of the Shangbo Museum, and 4 exchange artifacts from the Kyushu National Museum in Japan.
Influenced by Chinese culture, Japan has long had the custom of worshipping tigers, but its territory does not produce tigers, so the image of the tiger in cultural relics is often full of different imaginations, and the tiger in the painting is gentle and amiable, as can be seen from the two pieces of Imari blue and white plates of the Edo period on display. The "Blue and White Tiger Bamboo Figure Twelve-Shaped Plate" was fired in arita kiln in Japan (present-day Arita Town, Saga Prefecture), and the inner wall is painted with patterns such as tiger, bamboo, Taihu stone, and xiangyun, and the outer mural is peony and camellia pattern, and the inner and outer parts of the circle are painted with a string pattern. At the end of the 16th century, samurai families used large plates to arrange dishes at banquets, initially using Chinese porcelain plates produced in Jingdezhen and other places, until the rise of arita kilns in the early 17th century, locally made and produced large plates gradually became a luxury on the tables of Japanese high society, and such tiger bamboo map plates were widely favored and passed down the most. The large plate of blue and white tiger bamboo pattern on display was fired in the Shida kiln and was made between 1810 and 1840. Most arita kiln porcelain is transported to various places through the nearby port of Imari, so it is also called "Imari porcelain".
【Beijing】
Liu Xiaodong: Your friend
Exhibition time: January 15 - April 10
Venue: UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Tickets: 100 rmb
Liu Xiaodong, "Running on the Ancestral Grave", 2021, watercolor on paper, 34 × 25.5 cm.
Courtesy of artist studios. Image credit: UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
"Liu Xiaodong: Your Friend" was exhibited at UCCA Edge in Shanghai in the summer and autumn of 2021, and some of the new works formed the main body of the beijing tour. The exhibition begins with an important self-portrait: in the cold winter, in the village of Heitu, a few kilometers from Jincheng Township, the artist crouches down in the grove where his father is buried. This work was created in New York based on photos taken by Liu Xiaodong in his hometown of Heitu Village.
Liu Xiaodong spent a crucial early part of his career in New York, and spent most of 2020 with his wife and daughter in a Manhattan apartment isolated during the pandemic, so the idea of portraying the people closest to him came up. In the series of works on display, the artist depicts close friends he has known in Beijing for 30 years, including literary and art figures who inspired or engaged in dialogue with Liu Xiaodong, as well as portraits of important family members. The title of the exhibition comes from the fact that when Liu Xiaodong painted a portrait of film director Zhang Yuan, he thought that his mantra "Your Friend" was quite witty and interesting, so he decided to name the exhibition after it.
Colorful: The Art of Glass in the Ancient Exchange of Eastern and Western Civilizations
Exhibition time: January 25 - May 5
Venue: Tsinghua University Art Museum
Tickets: 60 yuan
Enamel stained glass pieces, Syria, Islamic period, 13th-14th century AD.
Image source: Tsinghua University Art Museum
Glass is one of the most important man-made materials in ancient times in the world, and its value was once comparable to that of gold. Since the Bronze Age, the ancient exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations have always shone with the brilliance of glass, and a large number of glass remains from various periods have been found in Eurasia and North Africa. A series of early 2,000-century BC sites in the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, China, from northwest to southeast, have unearthed the earliest batch of artificial silicate products in China. From the late Spring and Autumn period to the modern era, glass bead decoration, glassware and glass craftsmanship were transmitted to the Central Plains by land and sea, and after local digestion and reconstruction according to oriental aesthetics and needs, a unique oriental glass craft system and artistic taste were formed, which in turn affected the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
This exhibition is based on 325 sets of ancient glass from the Silk Road Art Museum in Hirayama, Japan, and is supported by the collections of many Chinese cultural institutions. The exhibition shows the history of ancient world civilization, the history of scientific and technological development, the history of art and the history of trade exchanges through glass, and glimpses the exchange and mutual learning of Eastern and Western civilizations through glass.
Mei LanFanghua: Mei Lanfang Art Life Exhibition
Exhibition time: January 20 - To be determined
Exhibition venue: National Museum of China North 3, North 4 Exhibition Hall
Exhibition site
Image source: National Museum of China
Mei Lanfang, whose ancestors are from Taizhou and was born in Beijing in 1894, was a pioneer of the emerging Danxing genre in the early 20th century. His performance style is both rigorous and exquisite, and his singing is exquisite, pure and full. The Mei Lanfang art school he founded reversed the situation of "life-oriented" on the previous Peking Opera stage, and created a new era of "equal emphasis on life and dan", and industry experts competed to emulate it. As a pioneer in the overseas dissemination of Peking Opera art, Mei Lanfang has visited Japan, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries for many times, highlighting the unique value of Chinese opera art in the treasure house of world art, and making positive contributions to the exchange and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.
Through a large number of cultural relics and documents, the exhibition comprehensively presents his art and life. The exhibition exhibits nearly 400 objects and 600 pictures, all of which are precious cultural relics and documents related to Mei Lanfang's artistic life, including collections that have not been published for a long time.
Hello, Robot.
Exhibition time: December 17, 2021 - March 20, 2022
Exhibition venue: Hyundai Motor Culture Center
Image source: Hyundai Motor Culture Center
This exhibition aims to reacquaint ourselves with robotics from a design perspective while inspiring innovative understanding of technology and the future of humanity. The whole exhibition is like a journey about robots, guiding the audience into the world of robots "from far to near" in an orderly manner.
The exhibition is divided into four units: "Science and Imagination" unit shows everything from the classic robot image in popular culture to the ubiquitous robot or robot system in everyday life; the "Design for Work" unit explores the controversy of robots in the field of production and work, answering the question of the extent to which humans will be replaced by machines; the "Friends and Assistants" unit allows us to examine the emotional connection between humans and robots; and the unit "Oneness" explains the final stage of human-robot integration , the human life in "machines." " . Not only does this mean that our lives are inseparable from sensors, smart software, and actuators, robots can also be part of our bodies, with the help of modern prosthetics and implanted chips, to achieve things that we could not have done before.
Beyond the Mirror: International Contemporary Photography Art Exhibition
Exhibition time: January 22 to March 3
Exhibition venue: Beijing Yintai Center in01 Meet The Museum in space
Tickets: 68 yuan
Image source: Meet the Museum
Usually, people call photographic works that have not undergone post-processing photography photography, and photography that is involved in the later stage of computer graphics technology is called imagery. In this exhibition, 24 artists from all over the world create a mixed reality and imagination between photography and video. From fashion photography, conceptual photography, nature photography to the intervention of digital technology in images, these works not only record the artist's attitude and perception of the world, but also reflect the richness of human imagination and spiritual world.