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Chen Chieh-jen's 'Condensation' Clamors with Silence |
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In his signature piece, "Factory," Chen's camera takes the audience through back-breaking 12-hour shifts, wades through seven-day work weeks, and pans the forlorn faces of hundreds of women hunched over sewing machines—all in complete silence. We sit on a stiff bench in the pitch black, air-conditioned gallery space in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, and feel utter helplessness.
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Chung Shifa, Shanghai Art Master, Dead at 86
 Cheng Shifa, famous traditional artist,
died Tuesday evening in
Shanghai Huadong Hospital at the age of 86. Cheng's medium of choice
was oil, and one of his favorite subjects was New Year's pictures. He
was also a master calligrapher. Cheng focused his life on
traditional art forms, university teaching, book writing and was
President of the Chinese Painting Institute of Shanghai. He once
said, "Art must reflect reality, whether it is oil or ink-wash
painting. Otherwise, it is dead." But Cheng was also known for acumen
as a comics artist, and in spite of his dedication to more traditional forms, he never abandoned the comic rendition as an art
form.
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Shanghai Gallery Listings
A guide to the city's contemporary art
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Opening the AIDS
Discussion: 'The Blood of Yingzhou District'
Last Friday, the UME theater in Shanghai's Xintiandi held a screening of the 39-minute, 2006 documentary, "The Blood of Yingzhou District" as part of the "DocuChina" project. |
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Chinese Symbols and Art Motifs:
The Lotus
For centuries, Chinese culture has embraced the lotus flower for its extreme beauty as well as for its usefulness and spiritual connotations. |
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Art History 101: Chinese
Apartment Art
In 1989, galleries suddenly became unwilling to consider the new schools of art that emerged after the Cultural Revolution, leaving artists to seek out places to display their work.
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Scandal at the Gallery: Robinson
Devor's 'Zoo'
Director Robinson Devor created "Zoo,"
a film depicting the community of men in Enumclaw, Washington that filled the void in their lives through animal love. |
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Beijing Artists Show 'Unities' at DDM Warehouse
"Three Unities," the exhibition that opened this past Saturday evening, is based on Aristotle's conception of drama, which should have
"unity of place, unity of time and unity of action."
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Gallery News: BIG WAREHOUSE
BIG WAREHOUSE distinguishes itself from the other galleries on this artsy strip with exhibits and installations that fuse abstraction and objectivism.
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