【Exhibition Tips】
The opening ceremony of the 2015 Jimei Arles International Photography Season will open at 15:00 on November 15 at Jiageng Art Center Plaza in Jimei New Town. The exhibition is open from November 16 to December 16, 9:00-17:00 daily, with the West Gate of the Garden Expo Garden as the main entrance. You need to redeem your ticket at the entrance of Xiamen Garden Expo Garden and enter the exhibition hall. To Jiageng Art Center, you can take a battery car to Min Wu Bridge, and then walk to Jiageng Art Center Exhibition Hall and Three Shadows Photography Art Center.
That is to say, this exhibition recommends that everyone enter from the west gate entrance of the Garden Expo Garden, if there is an audience who wants to directly enter the Jiageng Art Center, or the Three Shadows Art Center to watch the exhibition, as long as there is a ticket.
Reporter Of this edition, Ying Jie, trainee reporter Lin Luran
They are artists, critics, editors-in-chief of photography magazines, directors and curators of international photography festivals from all over the world. On November 17th, with rich experience in artistic creation and project operation, they will provide local artists and photographers with face-to-face opportunities to "point out the mysteries" in Xiamen.
The "Expert Meet and Greet" is one of the core projects of the International Photography Festival in Arles, France, and this time it has also been reserved for the 2015 Mei-Arles International Photography Season.
What is very different from the general experts, artist interaction and public lectures is that this "expert meeting" is aimed at professional artists, photographers or people who intend to seriously engage in the creation of photography art, experts will provide "one-on-one" work reviews, as well as curation, commentary, publishing, sales and other aspects of advice or resources, and even directly help contact various exhibitions and gallery agents at home and abroad, which will be a very valuable and rare opportunity for young artists who are still in their formative years.
In foreign countries, the applicants for the "Expert Meeting" of the photography festival include many active photography creators in the frontline. This time, the 2015 Jimei Arles International Photography Season invited more than a dozen experts from all over the world, including Sam, president of the Arles International Photography Festival in France, Mr. Ruan Yizhong, a Taiwanese photography master known as "China Bresson", Huang Rui, the initiator of the 798 Art District and a contemporary artist, Rong Rong, Yingli and his wife, artists and founders of Three Shadows, as well as art and media experts from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. It can be said that the expert meeting will be an important "springboard" in your photography career.
There will be volunteer interpreters at the meet-and-greet until the meet-and-greet is held.
Go to Jiageng Art Center to feel the charm of light and shadow
The first and fourth floors exhibit masterpieces of photography by famous artists at home and abroad, with unique styles
Taiwanese photography master Ruan Yizhong's series of works "Man and Land". (Courtesy of the organizers of the 2015 Jimei Arles International Photography Festival)
Ruan Yizhong's series of works "Square Nostalgia".
Ruan Yizhong's series of works "Man and Land".
This Jimei Arles International Photography Season has three major exhibition venues - Garden Expo Garden, Jiageng Art Center, and Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Center. Two days ago, we introduced the main exhibition items of the Three Shadows Hall and the Garden Expo Garden Exhibition Hall respectively, and today we will guide you to the highlights of the exhibition at the Jiageng Art Center, which is mainly distributed on the first and fourth floors of the center.
【1st Floor】
"Two Kinds of Nostalgia"
Four of Nguyen's most famous series are selected: Man and Land, Taipei Rumors, Lost Grace and Square Nostalgia. These works are gentle records of the real Taiwan of the 1970s and 1990s, and many of them have been exhibited and collected by many art museums at home and abroad.
"Distant Shadow"
Curator Sora named the project "Distant Shadow" in Li Bai's poem "Lonely Sail Distant Shadow in the Blue Sky" to express the long-distance mood of gradually drifting away and the hope for a new journey.
Kassel: Memory and Reconstruction
Since the 1980s, many Chinese artists have studied at the Kassel Art Academy, and the city's artistic atmosphere has influenced artists and influenced future Chinese contemporary art. Curator Tang Jing invited artists who had intersected with Kassel to re-present and interpret the city in a cinematic way and from the most personal point of view.
White Night Photo Studio
White Night Photo Gallery is an art group founded in 2013 with members Yang Wei and Wang Xu. By restoring the set props and shooting methods in the photo studios of the past, the group takes old photo-style photos for people today, hoping to remember those old-fashioned photo studios that have passed away with warmth.
Possessed and Forgotten Times
Six artists, including Shao Yi, Feng Li, Du Wenting, Shi Zheng, Guan Huaibin and Tang Nannan, who participated in this group of works, shared the virtual and real images they captured and created through different media such as mobile apps, audio-visuals and photos, and reproduced the details that once appeared around us but were ignored.
【4th Floor】
"Undecided Relationship"
Focusing on the 15 large-format photographic works of artist Liu Jie, in addition to the ingenuity of the works, the exhibition layout is also quite painstaking. In the vast space, the flat photographic works benefit from the deviation of the placement angle, showing a staggered beauty.
At the suggestion of curator Li Zhenhua, Liu Jie placed the pictures of the building on the wall for the audience to see from a distance, while the pictures of the flower house plants and ballet dancers were placed obliquely in the middle, allowing the audience to shuttle through it, and this well-designed sense of distance added vitality and fun to the exhibition.
【Interview】
Looking forward to the "debut" of the work in Xiamen
——Interview with Liu Jie, an artist in Germany
Liu Jie was born in Xi'an in 1977. After graduating from the Sculpture Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, he entered the Plastic Arts Department of the Kassel Art Institute in Germany. He studied contemporary art photography at the master's level and received the title of Master of Free Art after graduation. He currently lives and works as a professional artist in Munich and Beijing.
In dozens of exhibition projects of the 2015 Jimei Arles International Photography Season, Liu Jie's work "Undecided Relationship" "exclusively" occupies the four floors of the entire Jiageng Art Center, focusing on 15 large-format photographic works. This is the domestic "debut" of Liu Jie's artistic exploration for many years, although the works have been exhibited abroad, but such a comprehensive and large-scale display is also the first time, and he is very much looking forward to the response of domestic audiences.
Liu Jie works
In front of him, Liu Jie had a flat head, wore a dark green shirt, and carried a cross-body bag, like a college student. In fact, at the age of 38, he has been immersed in the European art world for 12 years, and the works in this exhibition represent the result of his study and life in Germany. From the beginning of preparation in 2006 to the completion of 2012, Liu Jie collected materials everywhere in the past 6 years, filmed and filmed, and traveled all over Europe. For this exhibition, 10 of the 15 works traveled from Germany to China, a trip that took three months.
In the works, the viewer will see buildings, floral plants, and ballet dancers, as if the works come from different artists, and will also wonder about the connection between the three. Liu Jie explained that in terms of content, buildings represent human products. The flower house plant embodies nature, a nature that is installed in the building, showing that human society is constantly expanding, and nature can only continue to fade. The ballet dancers represent the human beings themselves, who have undergone a long period of physical training and reshaped the body, metaphorically referring to the fact that when human beings create products, influence nature, and reconstruct external space, they are also subtly changing. From the picture point of view, buildings, flower house plants and ballet dancers all have a sense of structure and shaping.
"The relationship between these three is very delicate." Liu Jie said that the reason why the work is called "undecided relationship" is because he does not make a non-conclusive conclusion about this relationship, and human civilization brings the unknown, if the audience can think about it, the purpose of the work will be achieved.
Liu Jie has participated in many exhibitions abroad, but this is his first time to participate in the Arles International Photography Exhibition, and it is also the first time he has returned to China to participate in the exhibition after going to Germany for further study. Liu Jie believes that the film festival has built a good platform to promote the exchange and interaction of artists, and also provide an opportunity for the public to contact art. "It is normal for the public to be unable to understand some photographic works, and sometimes it is difficult for insiders to understand the connotation of the works." Liu Jie said, "But if the citizens want to come and feel this artistic atmosphere, it is best to bring their children together and slowly experience the feelings." "A graduate of the Kassel Academy of Arts, he is very interested in another project of the photography season, Kassel: Memory and Reconstruction." I will meet my old classmates in Xiamen, and I am very happy. Liu Jie said that the artists involved in the project are alumni of the Kassel Art Institute, and several of them are his old classmates and friends. Although the scale of the exhibition is small, the work will present a glimpse into the past of Kassel's life.
As a freelance artist, Liu Jie maintains a constant creative state. He revealed that the works he was creating were about the current situation of consumption in China, and the idea of creating new works stemmed from the experience of returning to China several times, Liu Jie said that he had not returned to China for 7 years, and when he came back and walked out of the airport, the whole person was shocked. "The horizon was raised in an instant, and there were tall buildings everywhere, and I couldn't see my head at a glance." He wanted to incorporate this shock into his new work, and the creative approach of the work would not be limited to photography.
【Expert Meeting】
●Address: Xiamen Photography Art Center, Three Shadows (No. 476 Xinglinwan Road, Jimei District, No. 301)
List of experts
Marianne Burki: Director of the Langenthal Museum, head of visual arts at the Swiss Arts Council, The Swiss Cultural Foundation and other institutions. Since 2012, he has been in charge of the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Art and Architecture.
Albert Weis: Born in 1969 in Passau, Germany, Albert Weiss has been widely exhibited in installations, sculptures and photographs, focusing on various aspects of sociality, historicity, utopia, privacy and public space.
Sam Stourdze: President of the Arles International Photography Festival. Focusing on the environment in which images are produced, disseminated and received, he has spent years delving into the circulation of images, especially the relationship between photography, art and film.
Christophe Loviny: Photographer and author from Arles, France, whose work appears in international magazines, exhibitions, art books, and photographic biographies.
Jeroen De Vries: An independent exhibition architect and graphic designer since the early 1980s, jeroen de Vries has been planning projects for major museums in the Netherlands.
Frank Ortmanns: Born in 1977 and living in Amsterdam, frank Ortmanns has created numerous national and international exhibitions as well as multimedia/cross-platform projects as a freelance editor, producer and curator.
●Huang Rui: Born in Beijing in 1952, Huang Rui is one of the most controversial and respected contemporary artists in China, one of the most controversial and respected contemporary artists in China.
● Liu Zhenchen: Born in 1976, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and the Villa Arson National School of Contemporary Art in Nice, and settled in the 104 Art Center in Paris this year. His works have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Petit Palais, the Sophia Museum of Art in Madrid, the Natural Museum of New York, and the Arles Photography Festival.
● Ruan Yizhong: Born in 1950 in Yilan County, Taiwan Province, he worked in the English magazine "Hansheng ECHO" magazine in 1972 and began to take pictures. In the past 40 years, he has published ten photographic albums such as "Man and Land", "Taipei Rumors", "Four Seasons" and "Farewell to the Twentieth Century", and has held solo exhibitions in many countries around the world, and his works have been collected by art institutions such as the Musée Des Beaux-Arts de Moderne in Paris, France.
●Cai Meng: Born in Shenyang in 1978, doctor of fine arts. He is currently working as an associate researcher in the Academic Department of cafam Art Museum (CAFAM) and an associate editor of the library magazine "Universities and Art Museums".
● Shum Yoon-yi: Born and currently living in Hong Kong, he has been a photojournalist for more than 10 years and is now a freelance photographer. He has won several documentary photography awards.
●RongRong, Yingli: This artist couple is the founder of Beijing Sanyingtang Photography Art Center, as an important artist and patron in the field of photography, Rongrong and Yingli have long been committed to discovering and creating a new ecological environment, which can be used to develop photography art and contemporary art, and promote Chinese contemporary photography and art to the world.
【Precautions】
Registration email: [email protected]
Please provide the following information for registration: name, email address, domestic phone number, WeChat ID, date of birth, language spoken.
If you have a website or folio, please include it in the email.
Meetings are limited to 20 minutes each.
Please prepare the materials you need for the meet-up in advance and display your work electronically, but it is best to prepare a printed portfolio so that experts can evaluate your expertise.
Give an expert a brief overview of you and your work, then explain your goals. Bring a pen and paper and prepare questions to ask experts. Control presentation time and set aside 5-10 minutes for expert reviews and feedback.