Source:Global Times Published: 2014-7-21 14:53:01
Exhibitions
Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jieming Twofold Solo Exhibition
Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jieming Twofold Solo Exhibition focuses on these two artists who have both developed individual approaches to new media art, and contributed each in their own way to the practice and context of this new art form as we experience it today. Jeffrey Shaw is a leading figure in new media art and has been active since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema, and installation paradigms of the 1960s, to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms. Set out as a twofold solo exhibition, the Chronus Art Center simultaneously presents a new art piece by Hu Jieming: Tai Chi with Prelude. This has been created not only as a response to the influence of Hu's old master, but also to Hu's own artistic achievements over the past years. Constantly concerned with subjects such as time, human history, and cultural memory, Hu intended to illuminate the boundaries between the "passing-by" and "going-on" and by doing so he set viewers free from the chronological way of seeing historical events, onto a more accidental reconstruction.
Date: Until November 28
Venue: Chronus Art Center
新时线媒体艺术中心
Address: Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road 莫干山路50号18号楼
Admission: Free
Call 5271-5789 for details
Tired Romantic - Wang Jiaxue Solo Exhibition
Wang Jiaxue's haunting, super-realistic oil paintings are the result of an exacting technique, intense concentration and a morbid imagination. Taking cues from mannerism, El Greco, and modern horror culture, Wang's work describes not only a deranged personal psychological dynamic, but also that of a collective psyche as well.
Date: Until August 31
Venue: BANK
Address: 1/F, 59 Xianggang Road 香港路59号1楼
Admission: Free
Call 6310-3622 for details
Moments - Dai Mouyu
Needle-Ink-Pen on Paper Solo Exhibition
Looking from afar, each work appears to be a grey-tone figurative image: flowing grasses in the wind, a flock of gulls in the sky, the sky and sea, mountain peaks. On closer inspection, however, the viewer will be astonished by the artist's painstaking effort: tens of thousands of unbroken lines fill the whole paper, and the distance between each slender line is only a few millimeters while the background consists of crossing vertical and horizontal lines. Dai Mouyu creates a distinctive and visual experience for his audiences. As stated by the artist: "The stimulation of drawing to me is the excitement that comes from the strokes, which contain anxiety and stress. The pure pleasure, however, lies in the physical act of creation of the works." All the paintings for this exhibition are the newest works finished this year. They build on the exquisiteness, sensitivity, calmness and size of his previous works, with a developed understanding toward aesthetic appearance and atmosphere.
Date: Until August 1
Venue: FQ Projects 非青计划
Address: No.76, Lane 927 Huaihai Road Middle
淮海中路927弄淮海坊76号
Admission: Free
Call 6466-2940 for details
The Meaning Is Beyond the Words - Hang Mingzhi Photography Exhibition
Photographer Hang Mingzhi takes black-and-white photos filled with the artist's concern, understanding, obsession and attachment to the objects. They contain strong cultural and aesthetic significance, but have been forgotten, abandoned, distorted and even destroyed. The camera lens freezes the moment so that the attitude of the artist is highlighted. Such feeling gives the pictures deeper essential resonance regarding cultural inheritance and the existence of mankind.
Date: Until August 29
Venue: OFOTO Gallery
全摄影画廊
Address: Bldg 13, 50 Moganshan Road 莫干山路50号13楼
Admission: Free
Call 6298-5416 for details
On Stage
Duo Francesca Dego & Francesca Leonardi
Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi have been performing together for the last 10 years. Their repertoire runs from baroque to new music. Following the success of Francesca Dego's 24 Paganini Caprices for Deutsche Grammophon, the duo has started recording all of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas. Francesca Dego was the first Italian female violinist since 1961 to reach the final of the Paganini Competition in 2008, and she won the Enrico Costa prize as the youngest finalist. From earliest years, Francesca Leonardi has earned distinction in many national and international competitions with 14 first prizes.
Date: August 23
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心
Address: 425 Dingxiang Road
丁香路425号
Tickets: 50 yuan to 300 yuan
Call 6854-1234 for details
Bruno-Valcepina Piano Duet
Giuseppe Bruno is currently the head of the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory in La Spezia, Italy. He won an award at the International Piano Contest in Rome. In 1992, he received a second award as a duo with violinist Alberto Bologni at the Viotti Competition in Vercelli, Italy. Paolo Valcepina is an Italian virtuoso who has won many national and international competitions. Among them, he ranked second in the International Piano Competition Camillo Togni and the third in the Venice Award at La Fenice, reserved for best Italian pianists. Also, he was awarded the silver medal by the president of Italy. Last year, Bruno and Valcepina toured together in Italy, Spain and China, performing the music of Giuseppe Verdi for the composer's bicentenary.
Date: September 26
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心
Address: 425 Dingxiang Road
丁香路425号
Tickets: 50 yuan to 300 yuan
Call 6854-1234 for details
2014 Mercedes-Benz International Music Festival Concert by Jacaranda Ensemble
Five young musicians, principals of the Brandenburg Symphony, have put together an unusual ensemble as a result of a desire to experiment with new sounds. The instrumentation of this ensemble clearly demonstrates the idea. Alpenhorn, didgeridoo, saxophone and percussion, instruments whose origins are thousands of miles apart, are woven into an aural tapestry through a mixture of composed and improvised music. Through its music, the Jacaranda Ensemble builds a bridge between the cultures of the world. Concert tours within Germany and abroad have garnered the group international respect and positive feedback from audiences.
Date: July 26
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心
Address: 425 Dingxiang Road
丁香路425号
Tickets: 80 yuan to 180 yuan
Call 6854-1234 for details
The Kammerchor Stuttgart Shanghai Concert
The German chamber choir is known for performing music from a wide range of periods and styles. Its repertoire includes music composed as far back as the 17th century and as recent as the last couple of decades, though they don't perform pieces from the Middle Ages and the renaissance. The choir performs opera, oratorio and a cappella. It has appeared at every major European festival, such as those in Salzburg, Barcelona, Madrid, Brussels and Flanders. In Germany, the choir has performed at festivals and concerts in Berlin, Dresden, Halle and the Rheingau Music Festival.
Date: August 7
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海东方艺术中心
Address: 425 Dingxiang Road
丁香路425号
Tickets: 80 yuan to 380 yuan
Call 6854-1234 for details