Upcoming Exhibition

CHINA POP

 ~ Xue Song & Wei Guangqing

OPENING GALA

February 26, 2015

Thursday

6:00 - 8:00 p.m

@ Pacific Heritage Museum

608 Commercial St.

San Francisco, CA 94111

Past Exhibition

"Home Town Boy" ~ Liu Xiaodong 刘小东

August 31, 2013 - June 29, 2014

Seattle Art Museum



Chinese Contemporary Artworks by 25 World-Renowned and Emerging Chinese Artists

April 19 - 21, 2011

ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO

Curated by Lu Peng and Bai Hua

Zhou Chunya 周春芽 | Spring River (Detail) | oil on canvas | 100 x 320 cm | 2011

Past Events

April 20, 2011

University of California, Berkeley

Contemporary Chinese Art - Panel Discussion

April 21, 2011

Asia Art Museum of San Francisco 

Contemporary Chinese Art  on Display -  "Pure Views" - Reception with Panel Discussion

April 22, 2011

Stanford University

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.

Artworks of 25 world-renowned and emerging contemporary artists from China will be on view in the U.S. the very first time.

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.”