CULTURE | ON DISPLAY
Poster for the exhibition “Xcelerator.”Xcelerator
August 12 – October 14 Times Art Museum, Beijing
In recent years, art has been integrated with science and technology with injections of mathematics, physics and computer technology to create the new media art in forms of VR, artificial intelligence, AR and biological genes. The development has made contemporary art increasingly diversified and the art boundaries more blurred.
This exhibition displays 10 groups of new media art works from eight countries and regions including China, Britain, Japan and the United States. They explore the integration of art and science in multiple ways, use various materials and employ wide-ranging media.
Franklin Chow: Zigzagging My Way Home
August 4 – October 17 Power Station of Art, Shanghai
This is Chinese-Swiss artist Franklin Chow’s debut solo exhibition in China.
The title of the exhibition, “Zigzagging My Way Home,” was inspired by the diverse experiences and confluences of cultures that Chow has known in his life and art as he eventually meandered home to his roots in Shanghai.
The exhibition brings together Chow’s representative works including paintings, installations and videos from different stages of his career, alongside Journal, a series of ink drawings and writings from his daily life over the past 20 years. Also on display are four ancient Chinese artifacts from the Shanghai Museum’s collection which greatly inspired his art.
Poster for the exhibition “Franklin Chow: Zigzagging My Way Home.” Parallelisms: Lu Junzhou
August 19 – October 21 Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
This exhibition displays more than 30 works that Chinese calligrapher Lu Junzhou has completed in recent years.
Lu’s works focus on the transformation from traditional aesthetics to contemporary aesthetics. Through his handwritings, Lu has been expanding the boundaries of art. His works follow his own ideas, emphasizing the spatial composition of Chinese characters and the rhythm of writing.
Born in the southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang in 1974, Lu Junzhou now lives and works in Beijing.
Poster for the exhibition “Parallelisms: Lu Junzhou.”
Once Upon a Time, 2017.
As the Land Sleeps , 2017.
Everywhere Nowhere, 2017. The Room: Du Meng Solo Exhibition
April 29 – October 29 Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai
In a scenic and storytelling manner, this exhibition showcases more than 80 glass works by Chinese artist Du Meng over the past two years, sorted into seven groups. The pieces offer a dramatic interpretation of the pervasiveness of “limitations” and “boundaries.”
Du Meng was born in Beijing. In 2008, she completed a BFA in Graphic Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. In 2013, Du received her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Glass Program. She had been an Artist in Residence as well as Adjunct Faculty at RIT for years before she returned to China in 2016.
Her works have continued to be exhibited and honored at venues in the United States, China and Europe. She now lives and works in Beijing and Shanghai, China.
A Century of Fashion: Hong Kong Cheongsam Story
April 17 – November 11 Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou
The cheongsam, or qipao, is considered one of the most representative female Chinese garments in contemporary history. “Cheongsam” is the Hong Kong Cantonese word for what the majority of Chinese people would call “qipao,” and either way the dresses feature strong local culture.
Themed around the Hong Kong cheongsam, the exhibition gathers 205 pieces of collections including fine cheongsams, cheongsam-making tools and promotional materials featuring cheongsam elements from the past century in Hong Kong, as well as a large number of valuable historical videos and images. It traces the evolution of Hong Kong women’s clothing, changes in the industry, the production process and fascinating stories of Hong Kong women and cheongsams.
Through the exhibition, the audience can absorb the charm of Hong Kong fashion over the past century and learn about the changes in Hong Kong society and women’s status.
Collections of fine Hong Kong cheongsams from the past century.