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Today is Shanghai Time #4 !

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1.Shanghai Biennale – Shanghai museum of arts


from Wed, 6th September until Sun, 5th November : Shanghai Bienalle 2006 
 > A theme that filled with the traits of our era, popularity and 
culture. It promotes the urban civilization and the fixed theme of 
"Hyper Design". The most young and pioneering international curatorial 
team. The Biennial invites six famous curators both home and abroad to 
form the curatorial team, including Zhang Qing, Huang Du, Shu-Min Lin, 
Wonil Rhee, Gianfranco Maraniello, Jonathan Watkins, Xiao Xiaolan 
(assistant curator). Zhang Qing (artistic director). Under the Biennial 
theme, a series of events in regard with the Biennale will be conducted 
to strengthen the Biennale's social influence. It will become a visual 
and creative feast in building up the city's image.

Lot of informations on the website http://www.shanghaibiennale.org 
<http://www.shanghaibiennale.com/>

2.Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists

Opening Reception: 19:30 September 5th, 2006
Date: September 5th -- October 20th, 2006
Venue: Shanghai Duolun MoMA
Duolun Road and Other Venues
Organized by: Shanghai Duolun MoMA
Curators: Bilyana Ciric, Huang Yuelin, Tang Dixin
Media Director: Zhao Song
Series of Debates Orginized by: Zhu Jingyi

http://www.duolunart.com

Introduction

The first edition of the Shanghai Duolun MoMA's exhibition of young 
artists works has been held in September of 2004 as the satellite 
exhibition of Shanghai Biennale.The exhibition was organized by a group 
of Shainghainese artists and Shanghai Duolun MoMA.Although the 
exhibition was named " The exhibition of Young Artists" an official 
sounding name, in reality it satirized this style of exhibitions while 
simultaneously mocking biennales. The artists exhibited using special 
pseudo names to aim criticism at the international biennale trend as 
well as the phenomenon of international curators conveniently using 
attendance at biennales to discover young artists.

The Exhibition of Young Artists will become the tradition of Shanghai 
Duolun MoMA and this type of exhibition of young artists will be held 
every two years.Hoping the museum will serve as a lab mediating between 
the artists and society.For the 2006 exhibition, the curatorial team set 
up the exhibition from around 20 young artists from all around country 
Shanghai, Beijing, Wu Han, Cheng Du, Guang Zhou. In addition to the 
artists' participation, the museum plans to get the general audience 
involved in the project through different perspectives.Exhibition will 
have a special part that will allow audience to bring the objects, 
diary, sounds, personal belonging or anything that they think that is 
the art and can be shown at the museum.This audience participation is an 
attempt to question the goal that all art institutions have and analyze 
the general public way of seeing the art that is at this moment 
forgotten or seems less important.So what is the art for ordinary person 
and how he/she sees the art practice?Through this audience participation 
the museums aims to bridge the gap between art and life and contemporary 
art and museum.

Besides the audience participation in the actual exhibition every 
visitor will have the opportunity to say it's own opinion about each 
work in the museum by filling out a questionnaire.Periodic Open 
Discussions where local curators, critics, artists and the public will 
discuss contemporary art issues including, what is actually 
contemporary, the problems of art institutionlization and the values and 
sources of critical opinion today.

Ways of join in the 2nd Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists

Before the deadline of collecting artworks, people can bring any kinds 
of things in any kind of form - which they consider to be art – to the 
Duolun museum. These objects could include but are not limited to 
painting, calligraphy, books or diaries, photographs, costumes, 
performances, videos, records, sounds. (anything against the laws and 
regulations will be canceled the qualification).

Anyone who attends the exhibition will have the rights to vote – to vote 
for whether each piece is art or not. We will tally up the votes every 
15 days, the artwork which is considered by most audience as a "not art" 
will be moved to the so-called "not art section" and be exhibited there, 
meanwhile we will add new artworks. (The "non-artworks" will not join 
the next round vote)

In exhibition spaces, the art museum will organize spot academic 
discussions. In due course, we will invite curators, critics and artists 
to attend, and the audience can also participate the discussion at any time.

Notices for Appliers

The TIME period of public submissions of art: 2006.8.25 – 2006.9.10 (we 
won't receive anything after the deadline)

The definitive SIZE and AMOUNT of collecting artworks: Each of the 
participants should offer artworks under 50 kg, within 2m both in height 
and in length. The total amount of artworks is 100 pieces. (We won't 
receive anything after the total amount is reached, so please call us to 
confirm)

The CATEGORIES of collecting artworks: The artworks should be considered 
as artworks or artistic by participants themselves, and they should be 
exhibited in the art museum, they can be – diary, record tape, costume, 
photograph, painting, calligraphy etc.

The detailed INFORMATION needed:

Self-introduction

Words for the artwork – the theme or personal viewpoint, conception

Pictures of the artwork

Demands on all pictures: digital photographs, resolution ratio – 300 
DPI, format – JPG, size – 1MB (used in the type set of collection books)

Contact ways: mobile phone numbers, fixed phone numbers, email address, 
house address, zip code etc (for the contact between Curatorial 
Department and participants)

Participants should take charge of the transport of artworks.

The personal information of 30 earliest participants will be shown in 
the collection books of this exhibition, and each of them can get one as 
a gift.

Please send your artwork and related material to:

Address: Curatorial Department, 5th floor of Shanghai DOLAND museum of 
modern art, 27 Duolun Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, PRC

Zip code: 200081

Or mail to:

biljana.ciric at gmail.com
huangyuelin_1 at yahoo.com.cn <mailto:huangyuelin_1 at yahoo.com.cn>
For more details, please call Curatorial Department: +86-21-6587-5996

Attention:

Please offer the art museum your detailed information in advance, and 
give clear indication on the envelopes or in the mails. Before you 
transport the artworks to the art museum, please make a call in advance 
to confirm everything otherwise we won't receive it

Working Hours of Shanhghai Duolun MoMA: 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. from 
Monday to Friday.


3. Shanghai MOCA- Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity

>From Wed, 6th September until Sun, 22nd October : > In this age of 
wide-ranging information exchange and of universal access to knowledge, 
people have succeeded in multiplying and democratizing the channels of 
information dissemination. As peoples' material conditions have 
improved, their increasingly sophisticated artistic mood is reflected 
not only in their sense of the beauty of forms but also in their demands 
for spiritual beauty, which increase daily. Curated by Uli Sigg, Sunhee 
Kim, Ye Yongqinq, Victoria Lu.

http://www.mocashanghai.org 
<http://www.mocashanghai.org/index.php?_function=exhibition&_subFunction=upcomingExhibition> 


The contemporary art that this new century and this new China have 
produced has unavoidably tended toward Neo-Eclecticism, which has 
resulted in experience with "conceptualism" and with the "handling of 
media and materials". This has, in turn, created a more liberal 
dialogue; for artists not only have re-excavated history to build new 
interpretations and perspectives, but also have made repeated use of the 
cultural characteristics unique to each and every people of the world. 
The artists endlessly piece together these perspectives with the 
artists' individual experience of contemporary life£¬as well as with 
questions of medium¡¢reorganization¡¢and rebirth; some artists also 
consider questions of gender.

Besides including Chinese artists and designers working both in China 
and abroad, MoCA Shanghai has also invited European, American and 
artists from throughout Asia who live or work in China to participate in 
this exhibition. Through the creation of art, these artists give 
expression to their sense of aesthetics, as well as to their experience 
of daily life's intricacies. Moreover, they express their sense of the 
neo-aesthetics of this new century's international cultural environment 
of mass communication and interactivity.

*4. ShanghART Gallery H-Space *

Zeng Fanzhi's Solo-Exhibition with new paintings
/Friday Sept. 1st 2006: 17.00-19.00/

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/The exhibition will be on view through-out September
ShanghART Gallery H-Space
50 Moganshan Rd., Bldg. 16 & 18
200060 Shanghai, PR China
T: +86-21-63593923 F: +86-21-63594570
http://www.shanghartgallery.com <http://www.shanghartgallery.com/>

Zeng Fanzhi: New Paintings

ShanghART Gallery & H-Space is proud to present a solo-exhibition with 
new works by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964).

Zeng Fanzhi delivers an art that feels new, not in its premises, but in 
its intense, yet refined vitality, and constant renewal. His new 
paintings are at the same time expressively figurative and abstract, 
held in cool shades of dark colors, and they represent both a tension of 
human solitude and exceptional beauty. Zeng Fanzhi is continuously 
engaged in exploring adequate and innovative ways in expressing his 
visual representations.

His latest paintings signify a shift in his focus from a formal concern 
with the representation of existential trauma, to an interest in how we 
imagine ourselves interacting with nature. Within these large-scale 
images there is a notion of fragility and vulnerability; like an attempt 
to create a terrain of uncertainty that inhabits both characters and 
landscape depicted.

The grand scale of the paintings lends them a certain suggestive and 
sublime appearance, and when viewed, the paintings constantly seem to 
evolve and create new particular impressions. The grand scale images 
stand both as reflections of a social reality that are made up of 
multiple signifying systems, of which the landscape is one.?

Zeng Fanzhi?s paintings appear simultaneously chaotic as well as 
controlled, intentional as well as unintentional, and his distinctive 
strokes signify the importance to process. Forcible intertwined curved 
lines may rest on a beautifully and calm background, and abstract and 
figurative elements appear side by side. The images therefore often 
carry references not to one but to many different realities. It is an 
energetic and reflective gesture that just serves to underscore Zeng 
Fanzhi?s status as one of China?s most innovative and skillful painters 
who?s acclaimed recognition and impact on the international art scene is 
rapidly expanding.

/Zeng Fanzhi was born in 1964 in Wuhan where he also studied oil 
painting at the Art Academy. Today he lives and works in Beijing. 
Exhibitions include Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea 
(2006), Scapes 1989-2004, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 
(2004), I/We ? The Painting of Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Art Museum, 
Shanghai, China (2003), Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Art Space, Beijing, 
China (2003), and The first Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art 
Museum, Guangzhou, China (2002/).

Selected by:
Jérémie Thircuir
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