Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
20 November, 2013
Contemporary Art: Japan
On March 15, 2013, Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Mami Kataoka presented a lecture at the Art Gallery of Ontario titled "Contemporary Art in Japan: Visions and Views of the Universe."
more info here
26 October, 2013
Kabuki Prints: NMS
Kabuki
Japanese Theatre Prints
4 October 2013 – 2 February 2014
NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND
Come face to face with Kabuki theatre’s most famous warriors, villains, heroes and heroines through 61 of the finest Japanese woodblock prints from the Museum’s collection. Meet the larger-than-life characters of Kabuki theatre to find out why these rare and beautiful prints became a cultural phenomenon in 19th century Japan.
Open daily 10:00–17:00
Website
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki.aspx
CATALOGUE here
GOOGLE IMAGES OF KABUKI PRINTS
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About the exhibition
These striking designs present vivid depictions of Kabuki, the popular form of traditional, all-male, Japanese theatre which combines drama, music, dance and acrobatics in convoluted plots concerning dramatic emotional conflicts and feats of derring-do.
Much like magazines and posters today, these woodblock prints were a cheap and colourful medium of entertainment. Their visual style will be familiar to fans of Manga comics, Japanese cinema and even Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Publishing houses commissioned designs from the very greatest artists of the era, but the prints were affordable to the average person on the street.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view these beautiful images and to learn more about a fascinating cultural and social period in Japanese history.
Pictures of the Exhibition
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki/inside_the_exhibition.aspx
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events
Moku Hanga: Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printing
Date: Fri 22 November
Time: 12:30 (3hrs)
Cost: £5
Take inspiration from our exhibition, Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints, to make your own woodblock print with artist and printmaker, Elspeth Lamb. Moku Hanga is the unique Japanese art-form of printing blocks with water-based pigments, known for its intense application of colour. One of the beauties of this technique is that it does not require solvents or a printing press – so the technique can be applied at home without expensive equipment. All materials will be supplied but please bring along a simple line drawing to work from.
more info
Japanese Theatre Prints
4 October 2013 – 2 February 2014
NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND
Come face to face with Kabuki theatre’s most famous warriors, villains, heroes and heroines through 61 of the finest Japanese woodblock prints from the Museum’s collection. Meet the larger-than-life characters of Kabuki theatre to find out why these rare and beautiful prints became a cultural phenomenon in 19th century Japan.
Open daily 10:00–17:00
Website
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki.aspx
CATALOGUE here
GOOGLE IMAGES OF KABUKI PRINTS
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About the exhibition
These striking designs present vivid depictions of Kabuki, the popular form of traditional, all-male, Japanese theatre which combines drama, music, dance and acrobatics in convoluted plots concerning dramatic emotional conflicts and feats of derring-do.
Much like magazines and posters today, these woodblock prints were a cheap and colourful medium of entertainment. Their visual style will be familiar to fans of Manga comics, Japanese cinema and even Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Publishing houses commissioned designs from the very greatest artists of the era, but the prints were affordable to the average person on the street.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view these beautiful images and to learn more about a fascinating cultural and social period in Japanese history.
Pictures of the Exhibition
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki/inside_the_exhibition.aspx
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events
Moku Hanga: Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printing
Date: Fri 22 November
Time: 12:30 (3hrs)
Cost: £5
Take inspiration from our exhibition, Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints, to make your own woodblock print with artist and printmaker, Elspeth Lamb. Moku Hanga is the unique Japanese art-form of printing blocks with water-based pigments, known for its intense application of colour. One of the beauties of this technique is that it does not require solvents or a printing press – so the technique can be applied at home without expensive equipment. All materials will be supplied but please bring along a simple line drawing to work from.
more info
22 May, 2012
The Printed Image in China
Clarissa von Spee, curator, Chinese and Central Asian collections, Department of Asia, The British Museum
Delve
into the history of printing and papermaking—invented in China
centuries before it was known in Europe—and gain further insight into
The Printed Image in China, 8th--21st Century, an exhibition presenting
over 130 Chinese prints from the British Museum's comprehensive
collection. Works discussed include Buddhist prints from the Silk Road,
colorful images used in folk rituals and festivals, imperial engravings,
antiwar images from the Modern Woodcut Movement, and internationally
acclaimed contemporary prints.
The Printed Image in China, 8th--21st Century
May 5--July 29, 2012 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition was organized by the British Museum with the support of the American Friends of the British Museum.
According to current scholarship, printing on paper was invented in China about 700 A.D., making China the country with the longest history of printing in the world.
Exhibition Themes
05 October, 2011
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011
Based on the theme “OUR MAGIC HOUR”, the YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011 will be held at two main venues: the Yokohama Museum of Art and NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK).
Focusing on works that allude to the magical mysterious powers in our daily lives and world as well as those that refer to mythology , myths and legend, The Triennale promises to be a vibrant exhibition that will showcase the works of dynamic contemporary Japanese and international drawing on pieces from the collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art and other institutions.
Artists works
28 May, 2011
Art HK 2011
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Magnus Renfrew, director of ART HK 11, the fourth edition of the Hong Kong International Art Fair, talks about the changing nature of the fair and the appetites of Chinese and Asia-Pacific art collectors.
view here
21 May, 2011
Tabiamo - Japan
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Biography on Philographica
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Tabaimo’s work examines the unseen, darker side of contemporary experience, exploring what lies beneath the seeming orderliness of the everyday world, and this piece was no exception. And she draws on all kinds of sources, from the aesthetics of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts, to the sometimes-absurd narratives of Japanese comics and animations, manga, and anime.
on Moma
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The Japan Foundation revealed on June 5 that the media artist Tabaimo will represent Japan at next year's 54th Venice Biennale. Known for hand-drawn animations that update the imagery of ukiyo-e wood-block prints to explore themes related to contemporary Japanese society, Tabaimo was selected for the 2011 Japan Pavilion by commissioner Yuka Uematsu, a curator at the National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Uematsu told ART iT that the working theme for the pavilion is "Trans-Galapagos Syndrome," and that Tabaimo plans to make works that will reflect global perspectives on contemporary art while preserving the unique characteristics of Japanese culture. More details about the pavilion and the selection process are forthcoming.
On July 10 the National Museum of Art opens an exhibition of works by Tabaimo, "Danmen," which originated at the Yokohama Museum of Art in late 2009. "Danmen" is the artist's first solo show in seven years in the Kansai region, where she studied at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Tabaimo previously exhibited at Venice in 2007, when she was included in the centerpiece exhibition curated by artistic director Robert Storr, "Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense."
Ai Weiwei
Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei
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Sunflower Seeds
In October 2010, Sunflower Seeds was installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London. The work consists of one hundred million porcelain "seeds," each individually hand-painted in the town of Jingdezhen by 1,600 Chinese artisans, and scattered over a large area of the exhibition hall.[33] The artist was keen for visitors to walk across and roll in the work to experience and contemplate the essence of his comment on mass consumption, Chinese industry, famine and collective work. However, on 16 October, Tate Modern stopped people from walking on the exhibit due to health liability concerns over the porcelain dust.[34] In February 2011, a 220-pound (100 kg) pile from Sunflower Seeds sold for $559,394 (well above its high estimate of $195,000) at Sotheby's in London.[35]
Sunflower Seeds from the Tate
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3_EKX1Igo&feature=related
Sunflower Seeds from Vernissage TV
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3_EKX1Igo&feature=related
Sunflower Seeds from Vernissage TV
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Interview with Ai Weiwei
for some reason they disabled embedding on part 2 - see it on youtube here
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Interview about the Olympics
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Recent Interview
13 May, 2011
River of Wisdom
In the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the "Animated Version of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" created by modern multimedia technology earns its reputation as the star exhibit in the China Pavilion.
Projected on a giant screen of more than 120 metres long and 6 metres high, the picture shows its details with animation including moving people, running water, various kinds of goods being displayed for sale, boat trackers shouting on the river and boats swinging their ways forward. A vivid, artificial river meanders through the lower part of the giant picture, giving visitors a stunning experience and an illusion that they are staying in Bianjing, the capital of Northern Song Dynasty nine hundred years ago. This giant picture is called "River of Wisdom" because it depicts many cultural aspects demonstrating the wisdom of Chinese in ancient times.
The animated version of the picture is 30 times of its original scroll. Elaborate computer animation gives life to characters and objects in the painting. An integrated image is formed by several high resolution projectors using sophisticated computer geometric transformation and correction technology. The entire features of the original painting including all its streets, boats and buildings are retained in the animation. The scene is portrayed in day to night cycles lasting for four minutes with dramatic interplay of light and colour. It is indeed a masterpiece that blends state-of-the-art animation technology with traditional Chinese culture.
Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is beyond doubt among the top ten most famous Chinese historical paintings. Besides its extremely high artistic value, this picture possesses, more importantly, tremendous historic value due to its vivid depiction of the civilian life of different social classes in Bianjing and in the suburbs during the Qingming Festival. It provides important historical information for those studying the urban life in the Song Dynasty and opens one more window for the moderns endeavouring to understand the ancient Chinese culture.
07 May, 2011
Art Basel & Hong Kong Fair
MCH Group, the owners of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, today confirmed that it has bought a 60% stake in Asian Art Fairs, the owner of the Hong Kong fair ArtHK (which opens its fourth edition in three weeks on 26 May), for an undisclosed price. As part of the deal, MCH Group has an option to buy the remaining 40% of Asian Art Fairs by 2014.
The 2012 (Hong Kong) fair will move from its May slot to 2-5 February, fitting in better with the group's other events (Art Basel this year is 15-19 June, less than three weeks after the Hong Kong fair; Art Basel Miami Beach is in early December).
ArtHK's new slot in February will be only a few weeks after Art Stage Singapore (12-15 January 2012). It was launched this year by Lorenzo Rudolf, who directed Art Basel from 1991 to 2000: the proximity of dates may force visitors and exhibitors to choose between the two.
full story
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-Basel-buys-Hong-Kong-fair/23753
29 April, 2011
First Mokuhanga Conference
EXCITING EVENT FOR ALL MOKUHANGA LOVERS - There is still time to register!
The Opening of the First Mokuhanga Conference is growing ever nearer. This pioneering international conference crosscuts all woodblock print communities, including artists, art educators, researchers, print lovers, Japanese artisans and woodblock suppliers alike. It is not too late to join in this event taking place both in historic Kyoto and the open air of Awaji Island.
Please download the Registration Form (Individual/Group) from MAIN PROGRAM > Registration.
Once we have received your registration form, we will send you an invoice as well as instructions for payment.
Registration Deadline:Tuesday, May 31, 2011
http://www.mokuhanga.jp/en/index.html
exhibitions
http://www.mokuhanga.jp/en/program/exhibitions_portfolio.html
28 April, 2011
Uchiwa Japanese Fan Charity Exhibition
Uchiwa Japanese Fan Charity Exhibition
Location: Espionage Gallery,
Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall,
Adelaide 5000
(entrance off Lindes Lane)
Time: Thursday, 05 May 2011 18:00
http://espionage-gallery.com/
Espionage Gallery in collaboration with That Fresh have joined forces to help the people of the Tohoku region of Japan in the wake of the recent Disasters which have befallen Japan. In an effort to raise money in help of support for disaster relief, Espionage Gallery and That Fresh purchased 50 blank Japanese Uchiwa Traditional fans and gave them out to 50 artists from accross Australia and New Zealand.
These 50 fans were painted or decorated by some of Australia's leading artists in an effort to help raise funds. The fans will be for sale for 1 week at Espionage Gallery for the set price of $60 per fan. 100% of the funds raised from the sale of the fans will be donated directly to the Japanese Red Cross in an effort to fund disaster relief.
The Exhibition will run from the opening night on Thursday the 5th of May at 6pm until the following Thursday and the gallery will be open from 12 noon - 6pm everyday.
some of the artists in the exhibition include:
APESEVEN, KITTY HORTON, AIDA SABIC, BEC WINNEL, KAITLIN BECKETT, JACK DOUGLAS, DRYPNZ, REBECCA MURPHY, ARAMAS, JOSHUA MIELS, JOEL VDK, DAN WITHEY, ARISA YAMAMOTO, MAT HEDE, REM, KATE KOWLAND, DANIEL PURVIS, GENEVIVE DAWSON SCOTT, MADISON BYCROFT, CIARNE BRAES CHAPPELL, MATT WALKER, ELISA MAZZONE, SUSAN CATT, DAYBOT, GREG EDEN, FRUZSI KENEZ, KATE GAGLIARDI, DANIELA CATALANO, STEVE O CONNOR, JOHN WILLANSKI, ASHOWKA CHOWTA, MATT HEALEY, NISH CASH, SALLY JO COOK, STACIE REEVES, HALEY ROBERTS, ELYSE WILLIAMS, RACHEL STRZELECKI, SEBASTION BLAZELY, HANNAH PEDLEY, STACY ALEXANDROU, OLIVIA ANDREULA, DONOVAN CHRISTIE, CHRISTINE SMITH + MORE
LIVE DJ'S ON THE NIGHT
Location: Espionage Gallery,
Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall,
Adelaide 5000
(entrance off Lindes Lane)
Time: Thursday, 05 May 2011 18:00
http://espionage-gallery.com/
Espionage Gallery in collaboration with That Fresh have joined forces to help the people of the Tohoku region of Japan in the wake of the recent Disasters which have befallen Japan. In an effort to raise money in help of support for disaster relief, Espionage Gallery and That Fresh purchased 50 blank Japanese Uchiwa Traditional fans and gave them out to 50 artists from accross Australia and New Zealand.
These 50 fans were painted or decorated by some of Australia's leading artists in an effort to help raise funds. The fans will be for sale for 1 week at Espionage Gallery for the set price of $60 per fan. 100% of the funds raised from the sale of the fans will be donated directly to the Japanese Red Cross in an effort to fund disaster relief.
The Exhibition will run from the opening night on Thursday the 5th of May at 6pm until the following Thursday and the gallery will be open from 12 noon - 6pm everyday.
some of the artists in the exhibition include:
APESEVEN, KITTY HORTON, AIDA SABIC, BEC WINNEL, KAITLIN BECKETT, JACK DOUGLAS, DRYPNZ, REBECCA MURPHY, ARAMAS, JOSHUA MIELS, JOEL VDK, DAN WITHEY, ARISA YAMAMOTO, MAT HEDE, REM, KATE KOWLAND, DANIEL PURVIS, GENEVIVE DAWSON SCOTT, MADISON BYCROFT, CIARNE BRAES CHAPPELL, MATT WALKER, ELISA MAZZONE, SUSAN CATT, DAYBOT, GREG EDEN, FRUZSI KENEZ, KATE GAGLIARDI, DANIELA CATALANO, STEVE O CONNOR, JOHN WILLANSKI, ASHOWKA CHOWTA, MATT HEALEY, NISH CASH, SALLY JO COOK, STACIE REEVES, HALEY ROBERTS, ELYSE WILLIAMS, RACHEL STRZELECKI, SEBASTION BLAZELY, HANNAH PEDLEY, STACY ALEXANDROU, OLIVIA ANDREULA, DONOVAN CHRISTIE, CHRISTINE SMITH + MORE
LIVE DJ'S ON THE NIGHT
30 March, 2011
Tomoko Shioyasu
apanese artist Tomoko Shioyasu was born in Osaka in 1981 and majored in sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Arts. Her immense floor-to-ceiling tapestries are meticulously cut by hand from enormous sheets of paper using utility knives and soldering irons. Her work evokes some of nature’s most complex creations: the organic patterns of cells, the flow of water, and the forces of wind. How these are hung without tearing seems nearly impossible.Her latest work, “Vortex” (first two images) is currently on display as part of the show Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art at Japan Society in New York
full article here
http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/03/immense-paper-cut-tapestries-by-tomoko-shioyasu/
MOTアニュアル2010：装飾 塩保朋子 インタビュー
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvlTcV-m89g
13 March, 2011
Singapore Biennale 2011
http://www.singaporebiennale.org/
Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries, the third Singapore Biennale, titled 'Open House', will be open to the public from 13 March to 15 May 2011. Over half of the artists are creating new commissions or premiering new works. 'Open House' is presented across four exhibition venues, each with their own particular character, that draw upon emblematic spaces in Singapore: Housing Development Board flats (Singapore Art Museum and 8Q), shopping centres and night markets (National Museum of Singapore), and international air and sea ports (Old Kallang Airport). Major art works at Marina Bay will amplify individual experience in the city.
about
list of artists
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Ed: I was in Singapore for the last Biennial in 2009.
Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries, the third Singapore Biennale, titled 'Open House', will be open to the public from 13 March to 15 May 2011. Over half of the artists are creating new commissions or premiering new works. 'Open House' is presented across four exhibition venues, each with their own particular character, that draw upon emblematic spaces in Singapore: Housing Development Board flats (Singapore Art Museum and 8Q), shopping centres and night markets (National Museum of Singapore), and international air and sea ports (Old Kallang Airport). Major art works at Marina Bay will amplify individual experience in the city.
about
list of artists
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Ed: I was in Singapore for the last Biennial in 2009.
25 September, 2010
Contemporary Chinese Art History
The History of Chinese Contemporary Art
Melissa Chiu
Museum Director, Asia Society
view video here
http://bigthink.com/ideas/4999
Chinese art, before and after Tiananmen
November 2007
17 September, 2010
Xu Bing
Book from the Sky
Xu Bing: My formal training as an artist was in printmaking, this is why so many of my works are related to printing. In fact, the printing process is the exact opposite of the sculpting process. Printmaking is about taking a material with elevations and recesses and printing from it so that a three-dimensional form is transposed into a two-dimensional form. It is true that the process by which an artist prepares/carves the material to be transformed into a print contains elements of sculpture; but in printmaking this constitutes the mid-point rather than the end-point. Still, your observation is interesting--that this preparatory stage of print-block carving could be seen as related to early sculptural art.
full interview
http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/texts/a_conversation_with_xu_bing1/
about
http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/about
Mahjong list of artists
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/mahjongartists/index.html
15 September, 2010
Contemporary Chinese Art
This Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne) session, chaired by Chris McAuliffe, looks at the phenomenal recent rise of contemporary Chinese art. Geremie Barme and Claire Roberts take a tour of the most significant works, artists and events of the past three decades, and discuss the art's reception and impacts both in and outside of China.
University of Melbourne, June 2009
http://www.themonthly.com.au/rise-contemporary-chinese-art-chaired-chris-mcauliffe-1792
16 May, 2010
More ART HK 10
Australian Galleries exhibiting
| Tolarno Galleries | Melbourne | www.tolarnogalleries.com |
| Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art | Sydney | www.ssfa.com.au |
| GRANTPIRRIE | Sydney | www.grantpirrie.com |
| gbk - Gallery Barry Keldoulis | Sydney | www.gbk.com.au |
| Conny Dietzschold Gallery | Cologne/Sydney | www.connydietzscholdgallery.com |
| BREENSPACE | Sydney | www.breenspace.com |
| Mori Gallery | Sydney | www.morigallery.com.au |
| Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery | Sydney | www.roslynoxley9.com.au |
| Sutton Gallery | Melbourne | www.suttongallery.com.au |
ARTHK10
Hong Kong International Art Fair 2010
27 - 30th May 2010
ART HK is the leading showcase for international Modern & Contemporary Art in Asia with over 150 galleries participating from 29 different countries. ART HK reflects Hong Kong’s ‘Gateway’ status in presenting a unique opportunity for collectors to see and buy work of a quality and geographical diversity not available anywhere else in the world.
HUGE LIST OF EXHIBITORS AND WEBSITE LINKS
http://www.hongkongartfair.com/eng/exhibitors/galleries/4/
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more information and videos from previous years
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/01/hong-kong-art-fair-08-09.html
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2009/05/hong-kong-art-fair-2009.html
05 May, 2010
21 February, 2010
Islamic Architecture and Arts
Paradise Found: A Documentary on Islamic Architecture and Art
We imagine many things when we think of this word. However, we do not think about Islamic Architecture, which influenced the art of Europe so profoundly. This documentary tours through the Muslim world, in search of that "atmosphere of Paradise," hidden away in mosques and palaces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4QpirJcYk
part 1 of 10
We imagine many things when we think of this word. However, we do not think about Islamic Architecture, which influenced the art of Europe so profoundly. This documentary tours through the Muslim world, in search of that "atmosphere of Paradise," hidden away in mosques and palaces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4QpirJcYk
part 1 of 10
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