Art Exhibitions

Spittoon presents Slam Poetry nights, every third Thursday of the month at The Great Outdoors.

Come to hear some poets slamming in Chinese, English and any other language. You're welcome to come and perform as well.

Also offering workshops, we are looking to build the Slam Poetry community and explore this wonderful genre!

September 20: Slam Poetry Performance

October 18: Slam Workshop

M WOODS is pleased to present Liang Shaoji: As If, a survey of works from the 1990s to the present and his first solo exhibition in Beijing in nearly a decade. Featuring six new pieces, the show spans the entirety of the museum and comprises sculpture, installation,video work, and photography. Renowned for his adaptation of silkworms within the creative process, Liang skillfully manipulates light, sound, texture and smell, crafting environments monumental and diminutive over which they spin their thread. Living in the remote mountainous city of Tiantai (four hours from Shanghai), Liang bridges disciplines of science, spirituality and metaphysics, probing our origins in nature, and eventual return to it in death, through the symbolically potent vehicle of silk.

For more information on the exhibition, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/W3BmnrhkJEld0_gKuIw-PA

Videos and storytelling by Niko de La Faye

www.nikodelafaye.com

www.m2bproject.com

Niko de La Faye invites you to the screening of the images he brought back from Dakar and to share with you the stories of this 6-weeks African trip that did not happen at all as expected…

Last May M2B project was in Africa. For its 7th year traveling around the world it took part of DAK’ART biennale, one of the main contemporary art event in Africa, with the ‘M2B Dakar’ exhibition and a series of performances in the streets of the Senegalese Capital.

This is a new big step in this hybrid art project combining kinetic-sculpture, photo, video and performance. After Asia (2011-2013), Europe (2014-2015) and the US (2016-2017), Africa is the 4thcontinent that M2B visits.

M2B is a representation of the Universe placed upon a traditional Chinese tricycle. It is composed of elements from both Eastern culture, using Taoism symbols and Western science, referring to American physicist Garrett Lisi theory of everything.

After the performance started from Beijing in 2012 and reached Hong Kong after a 80-days journey, Niko de La Faye and his mobile-kinetic-sculpture were invited to Paris in 2014 by the Mayor of the 4th arrondissement. Two years later the Department Of Transportation of the city of New York (DOT NYC) requested M2B to come and parade on Manhattan for the Summer Streets Festival.

For Niko this project is an indispensable gesture in a world in which distances are shrinking and people are moving away from each other. M2B project may seem like a derisory gesture, but the symbols it conveys, literally, are charged with a universal force.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

NIKO DE LA FAYE is a French born Beijing based self-taught visual artist. He works across sculptural objects, photography, video and performance. De La Faye’s work consists of making compositions of shapes, geometrical and natural, referring directly or indirectly to universal laws and Nature in various forms. He creates instinctively and the foundations of his work lie in collaborations and encounters with people he meets and environments in which he finds himself living and working.

De La Faye has shown his work both nationally and internationally. Selected shows include: Summer Streets, New York (2016), Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing (2015), Mebospace, Beijing (2015), Xiangsi Gallery, Tianjin (2015), Young International Artist Art Fair, Paris (2014), MCM Art Space, Macao (2014), HK Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong (2013), Mur Nomade Gallery, Hong Kong (2013), Croisements Festival, Beijing-Shanghai (2011-2012), Caochangdi Photospring Festival, Beijing (2011-2012), Art Beijing, Beijing (2011), Performing Arts Center, Suzhou (2009), Sylvia Rhud Gallery, Paris (2009).

Watercolour painting is a painting method that uses techniques such as blending and diluting the paint produce a see through effect. In comparison to other painting methods, watercolour painting focuses on expressive techniques – “dry drawing” and wet painting”. With the usage of the diluted paint, variety of special effects that can be produced by adding layers of colours over each other. However, over doing the layers of colours can reverse the harmonic effect of the colours and end up having a dirty look. As watercolour painting tends to dry quickly it is not recommended for large projects. Watercolour painting is more suitable for small landscape painting as it is easier to produce lively and refreshing effects.

DayDayUp community art events are still ongoing. Let us introduce coloured pencil class to everyone.

Coloured pencil is an art technique used to combine sketch and colour. Its uniqueness is associate with the rich and exquisite colours used, allowing artists to show a light and transparent texture.

Click here for registering:

https://event.dduwork.com/xiaochengxu/en/eventdetail/id/5b8c9212c70b88680a2e9751

Long March Space is honored to announce our representation of London-based Chinese artist Vivien Zhang. We are proud to present “Codescape”, her first solo exhibition in China, opening on September 8.

Zhang’s approach to painting is vitally grounded in the present moment, exhibiting a distinctly network-like aesthetic. Using repetitive structures disrupted by carefully selected motifs and forms, her paintings resemble the visual experience of digital technology, the structure of algorithms themselves, and hyperlinked connections between information. Yet the results also retain an emotional core: by returning to her birthplace for this exhibition the artist is engaging with half-forgotten recollections of childhood and traces of family history.

For more information, visit: http://www.longmarchspace.com/en/vivien-zhang-codescape/

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce the opening of Yang Jiechang's solo exhibition “Six Two Zen” on September 1, 2018, in the 2nd space of Beijing. Curated by Dr.Martina Köppel-Yang, this exhibition will present a video and three distinctly different ensembles of works created during the last fifteen years: Scroll of Secret Merit (2004) and Underground Flowers (2004), Tale of the 11th Day and Stranger than Paradise (2010-2018), and finally These are Still Flowers (2012 -2018).

Six Two Zen is the title of a video loop showing the artist making a terrible face like that of the revengeful God of Thunder, Leigong. In many of his works Yang proposes this kind of duality-transcending position to the viewer: there is no traditional or contemporary, no Eastern or Western, no political-correct or subversive,no beautiful or ugly, no good or bad; and, in this sense, the artist considers Leigong's terrible grimace an auspicious sign.The awareness of the existence of a position in between, an alternative view going beyond a dialectical perception of the world, marked Yang Jiechang's way of thinking from very early on and is his key strategy to relate to reality and life in a deeper and more immediate way.

For more information, visit: https://www.tangcontemporary.com/2018-six-two-zen

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce the opening of Yang Zhenzhong's solo exhibition “Surveillance and Panorama” on September 1, 2018, in the first space of Beijing. Curated by Lu Mingjun, this exhibition focuses on the dissemination of visual images and channels of visual perception, and has created a political theater rooted, like the control mechanisms of power, in the surveillance structure.

The exhibition comprises three parts. The first part is a looped, revolving installation at the center of the exhibition space, at the center of which is a mirrored pillar with wire fencing, surrounded by six couches made to official international conference standards. Viewers are free to sit down and take in the paintings and video works on the surrounding walls as the couches slowly rotate. The fenced mirror pillar reflects everything that happens around it.

For more information, visit: https://www.tangcontemporary.com/2018-surveillance-and-panorama

Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) is honored to pronounce that Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, a large-scale group exhibition will be presented at all exhibition halls from September 1st. Focusing on painting itself, this exhibition invited 29 artists of all ages who got much attention in contemporary art field to attend and to explore the artist's narrative rules related to painting in different styles and systems. The exhibition co-curated by cutators Yang Jian, Yu Fei, Zhao Xiaodan from Hive Center, and the exhibition will continue until October 7th ,2018.

Painting, as a time-honored traditional mode of depiction, has been confronted with questions and challenges in the current context, especially in this age of luxuriant and endless genres of art. This is as big a challenge for painting as that at the birth of photography which greatly changed the public’s ideas towards images and thus brought quite an impact on painting, a genre that had been taken mostly as an approach to depict nature. Modernist art has initiated the quest for the uniqueness of painting and advocated that the focus of painting has shifted to the relation between the two-dimensional plane and a painter’s presence and traces such as his brushwork and coloring. This group exhibition is an attempt to explore the artists’ painting-related rules of narration in different styles and systems, instead of a simple presentation of works of a common theme or similar medium. The 29 artists selected for the show have been observed by Hive Center for Contemporary Art for a long term, with their ages covering a certain span of time, including those established artists who have had their personal history built and the emerging artists who are weaving their own worlds and experimenting on diverse subjects. As a context inhabited by all contemporary painters, this exhibition is not constructing any uni-structural community, but exploring the existence or possibility of a parallel concept, verbally based and available, for the ontology of image when in reference to visual aesthetic experiences and verbal description.

For more information, visit: http://hiveart.cn/enexhdetails.aspx?id=186

As Hegel put it, “Being self-conscious is being conscious.” Reflections on self-consciousness are based on the external other, and self-consciousness is the reflection of consciousness, the knowledge about oneself, which is different from the knowledge of objects. Self-consciousness is self- determination, and recognition, but this determination is based on the other. Ignored the external world, it is the determination of pure egotism, falling into psychological narcissism and leading to an abnormal mental state. If the ego is never recognized from without, the ego cannot form its own self-consciousness, losing its raison d’etre, but may lead to schizophrenia. Hegelian reason is faced with a great risk - an abnormal environment would cast a huge psychological shadow over self-consciousness so that it is difficult to form self-determination. The ego becomes a conscious self-deception. One definitely knows this is “the ego”, but regards not it as “the ego”; however, regarding “the ego” as an object, one thinks of it as “the ego”. Consciousness contradictorily accepts this self-deception structure. According to Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, the subject can enter into the symbolic order only by The Other’s naming and becomes the subject of language and of meaning. In the face of The Other with changeable, capricious, collapsed values of the external world, the loss of a definite reference system, the determination and construction of the individual faces a natural predicament. View art exploring this philosophical system at Space Station.

For more information, visit: http://space-station-art.com/exhitionsText.aspx?exhition=310