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February 26, 2015
Thursday
6:00 - 8:00 p.m
@ Pacific Heritage Museum
608 Commercial St.
San Francisco, CA 94111
"Home Town Boy" ~ Liu Xiaodong 刘小东
Chinese Contemporary Artworks by 25 World-Renowned and Emerging Chinese Artists
Curated by Lu Peng and Bai Hua
Zhou Chunya 周春芽 | Spring River (Detail) | oil on canvas | 100 x 320 cm | 2011
Contemporary Chinese Art - Panel Discussion
Contemporary Chinese Art on Display - "Pure Views" - Reception with Panel Discussion
Contemporary Chinese Art - Panel Discussion
THEY 他们 | In Between the Water and Cloud | oil on canvas | diameter 120cm | 2010
BAI HUA, director of iCulture, “PURE VIEWS” brings us the works of contemporary Chinese artists baptized in the fires of a post-modern multicultural world, offering us a penetrating look at Chinese traditional culture while painting this most cosmopolitan of cities in the brilliant colors of contemporary Chinese art.
PURE VIEWS "溪山清遠" takes its name from a work of art by Song Dynasty (960-1297) painter Xia Gui (1195-1224). Practices and techniques from this diverse group of living Chinese painters are exposed as the artists reflect and respond to their shared artistic heritage in the context of an ever-changing global environment. Curated by Lü Peng and Bai Hua, the exhibition will feature some of the most renowned names in contemporary Chinese art, including Fang Lijun, Shang Yang, Ye Yongqing, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhou Chunya.
LU PENG, Professor at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou and Chairman of the Institutions of Chinart, explains the concept that underpins the exhibition. "PURE VIEWS is a group presentation of contemporary paintings that employs Western materials to reflect upon and reinterpret traditional Chinese civilisation and temperament. The age span of participating painters is quite large. In their observation and understanding of traditional painting, these artists, born of different generations between the 1950s and the 1980s, differ in perception, judgment, and attitude. However, as soon as a Chinese artist focuses his attention and receptivity on his own cultural tradition, once he discovers its wonders he begins to create new genre of contemporary art.”
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Suite 3500
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
ph: 415.200.8593
alt: 415.509.7558
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