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> We are Back !
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> Xavier Cahen
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> Today is Shanghai Time #4 !
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> 1.Shanghai Biennale – Shanghai museum of arts
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> 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
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> 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
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> http://www.duolunart.com
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> Introduction
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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).
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> 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)
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> 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
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> 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)
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> 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:
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> Self-introduction
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> Words for the artwork – the theme or personal viewpoint, conception
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> Pictures of the artwork
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> 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:
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> 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.
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>
> 3. Shanghai MOCA- Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity
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>> 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/).
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> Selected by:
> Jérémie Thircuir
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