Chinese artist Li Ying at Gallery Yishu 8, Beijing
Chinese artist Li Ying preparing her solo show at Gallery Yishu 8, Beijing during her residency at the gallery
Artist Siphie Lamm at Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing HD
Artist Siphie Lamm preparing her solo show during her art residency at Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing
French artist Mathilde Geldhof at gallery Yishu 8, Beijing
French artist Mathilde Geldhof preparing her solo show at gallery Yishu 8, Beijing during her art residency at the gallery.
Tea and Wine exhibition at Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing HD
Tea and Wine exhibition at Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing HD
Shangyuan Artist Residency, Beijing
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Spring, Summer, Fall...
Thirteen international artists living, working and exhibiting together at the Shangyuan Art Museum Residency in Beijing, China.
China 2012: Besuch in Shanxi-sheng Yishu Bowuguan (Teil 4)
Diesmal drei Bronzewaffen, bzw. Teile davon: Speer 矛mao2, Schwert 劍 jian4 und Armbrust 弩nu3.
Die Waffen stammen, bis auf die Armbrust, aus der Zeit der Streitenden Reiche.
Bei jian4 handelt es sich um zweischneidige Schwerter mit gerader Klinge. Sie waren in der früheren Zeit relativ selten, gewannen aber während der Zeit der Streitenden Reiche zunehmend an Bedeutung.
Die Erfindung der Armbrust wird auf das 5. Jahrhundert datiert. Früheste Funde gibts es hier in China aus dem Staat Chu3 楚 im Süden. Allerdings kann nicht mit Sicherheit bestimmt werden, welches Volk schlussendlich die Armbrust erfunden hat, auch wenn die Chinesen diese Errungenschaft gerne für sich beanspruchen. Die hier gezeigte Halterung der Waffe stammt aus der Han-Dynastie.
Zeit: Zeit der Streitenden Reiche (475 v. Chr. - 221 v. Chr.)
Han-Dynastie (westliche) 206 v. Chr. - 8 n. Chr.; (östliche) 25 n. Chr. bis 220 n. Chr.
Yishu8 Music Podcast 1.mpg
Chinese Traditional Music in Modern China. Short Introduction to issues and Concert on January 16, 2011 at 3pm. Yishu8 Art and Culture Space, Beijing, China. Music Beyond the Moongate Concert Series presents concert-discussion events that address the inter-cultural sitation of music in China and the world. yishu-8.com. Music Artistic Director, Jeff Roberts jeff-roberts.org
CHINA 8 | Künstlerportrait: ZHANG ENLI
LIN TIANMIAO: Protruding Patterns
From September 7h to October 21st, the main gallery of Galerie Lelong in Chelsea will be covered with a massive carpet. The bright and colorful carpet is made up of dozens of antique carpets sewn together and invites viewers to walk on it. On top of the carpet are embroidered words written in various languages including Chinese, Japanese, and English and are all expressions about women.
The artist who created this piece is Lin Tianmiao, one of Chinas most internationally recognized contemporary female artists. Throughout the years, Lin has been using an intricate, labor intensive approach with mediums such as textiles, thread, embroidery, to address human experience, especially female issues in a global context.
Yue minjun instalation in Vanocouver
Beijing artist Yue Minjun's Shixiangsheng was installed in downtown Vancouver yesterday.
Yishu Interviews - Zhang Enli
Zhang Enli Interviewed by Zheng Shengtian
Lin Tianmiao at Asia Society Museum
ZHANG HUAN IN CONVERSATION
Zhang Huan in conversation
Thursday 8 January 2015, 4pm at Carriageworks.
Renowned Chinese artist Zhang Huan speaks about his work Sydney Buddha at Carriageworks.
Zhang Huan: Sydney Buddha is comprised of two large-scale sculptures of Buddha, each over five-metres tall, and positioned facing each other in the Carriageworks public space. One Buddha is created from aluminium and acts as a mould to form the second Buddha, which is created from 20 tonnes of ash collected from Buddhist temples in Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and the Zhejiang Province of China. The ephemeral ash Buddha will gradually disintegrate over the course of the exhibition, affected by exposure to the environment.
Chinese-born Zhang Huan (b. 1965) is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. He began his career in Beijing in the 1990s creating performative, politically engaged works, and moved to New York in 1998. Over two decades, his body of work has addressed themes including poverty, personal liberty, cultural difference and nomadism. Since his return to Shanghai in 2006, Zhang Huan has shifted focus to more traditional forms of art such as sculpture and painting and adopted ash as his primary medium.
Carriageworks in association with Sydney Festival presents
Zhang Huan: Sydney Buddha
8 Jan- 15 Mar 2015
10am - 6pm daily, free
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Zhang Huan
Antologica de Zhang Huan en la fundación Telefonica en el canal on line de arte10.com en a10tv
Man Fighting Wolves sculpture at Da Shan Zi 798 Yi Shu Qu Beijing
This is a walk through the Man Fighting Wolves sculpture at Da Shan Zi 798 Yi Shu Qu Beijing. There are over 160 wolf sculptures and it gives you a tremendous feeling walking among them. If you are in Beijing and like art this area has street sculpture, art galleries, cafe's, and shops.
Une délégation lyonnaise en Chine
Il y a un peu plus d’un an, en mars 2014, le président chinois Xi Jinping avait commencé son déplacement en France à Lyon pour inaugurer le nouvel Institut franco-chinois. L’établissement avait été rénové pour favoriser le business entre les deux pays. Cette année, c’est au tour d’une délégation lyonnaise d'environ 80 membres, conduite par le sénateur-maire Gérard Collomb, de se rendre en Chine, jusqu'au samedi 27 juin. Au programme de ce voyage, notamment, des rencontres au profit des entreprises et des nouvelles start up lyonnaises ainsi que la signature d'accords universitaires franco-chinois. Le domaine de la culture sera également abordé, notamment entre la bibliothèque de Lyon et celle de Canton, où l'inauguration d'une exposition sur la ville de Lyon est programmée. L’ancien institut franco-chinois de Pékin, devenu Yishu 8 signe de son coté, un partenariat historique avec le nouvel institut franco-chinois de Lyon pour, notamment, des échanges culturels.
Yishu Interviews - Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan Interviewed by Zheng Shengtian
China village petitions to 'isolate' HIV positive boy
Villagers in China's Sichuan province have petitioned authorities to isolate an HIV positive eight-year-old boy, state media report.
Kun Kun lives with his grandparents, who struggle to care for him. Local people said he had been running wild and had begun starting fires.
A Beijing Youth Daily feature on the boy has attracted tens of thousands of comments online.
Officials are reportedly planning to educate the villagers.
Discrimination against those with Aids is said to be common in China.
The newspaper said that the boy, who has been given the pseudonym Kun Kun, had contracted the virus from his mother when she was pregnant with him, but was only diagnosed when he was about five years old.
His mother and stepfather work in other provinces, so he lives near the town of Xichong with his non-blood-related grandparents, who had adopted his stepfather as a child.
Kun Kun does not go to school, said the paper, but spends his days playing in the woods. He has also set his own home on fire, as well as grass piles and the village oil well, it said.
Nobody wants to play with me, so I just play by myself, he was quoted as saying.
Boy 'too scary'
At a special meeting on 7 December, 203 village residents signed a petition asking the authorities to carry out preventative isolation measures by taking Kun Kun away from the village, and protect the health of the villagers and children.
The statement, quoted in state media, said that Kun Kun having contracted HIV from his mother, now provokes fear among the community.
Beijing Youth Daily published a picture showing Kun Kun watching as his grandfather signed the petition, and said he later raced home, climbed into bed, and laid there wordlessly.
The village's party secretary Wang Yishu told the paper: Everyone pities him, he's innocent and after all he's just a child. But the fact that he has Aids is too scary for this village. We don't know what to do with him.
Villagers told the newspaper they were afraid their children would catch Aids if they came into contact with him or were bitten by him. One called Kun Kun a time bomb.
Asked by another newspaper why he signed the petition, Kun Kun's grandfather said he and his wife were elderly and unwell, and had no way of taking care of this child. He added that he had had no news from Kun Kun's parents.
'Lack of knowledge'
Kun Kun's case sparked intense discussion on weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogs, where the reaction was a mix of scepticism, sympathy for the villagers, and pity for Kun Kun.
Some of the most popular comments questioned Kun Kun's predicament. Such a young child! How could he have contracted Aids? said one user.
Others pointed out Kun Kun's unruly behaviour and said he presented a safety risk to the villagers.
But many also expressed sympathy for Kun Kun and condemned the villagers' behaviour.
This has to do with many people lacking knowledge, and the crux of the matter is there needs to be more education to avoid more such situations, said one user.
A local official told the paper that they planned to conduct ideological education for the villagers, and also look for an organisation to take in Kun Kun as his grandparents, who are his guardians, are elderly.
Observers say discrimination against those with HIV and Aids is still rife in China, although the government has tried to combat it with laws aimed at stopping discrimination.
In August, two passengers with HIV sued a budget Chinese airline for refusing to let them board a plane.
The World Health Organization noted earlier this month that China had made improvements in HIV prevention and treatment, but needed to do more. The WHO estimates that China has about 800,000 patients with the virus.
Elegantly formal (Jeffrey Chung Models Show Pt 8)
They swan by the camera with their elegant poses. In suits and gowns, these models displayed their style and grace on the catwalk.
Schwertherstellung in Taiwan Teil 02 in Original Cinesisch
In China wurden Schatzschwerter schon vor 2 bis 3 Tausend Jahren geschmiedet, jedoch sind nur wenige von ihnen erhalten geblieben. Grob geschätzt einhundert von ihnen sind noch zu finden und die Mehrzahl befindet sich im Besitz des Nationalen Palastmuseums und des Nationalen Museums für Geschichte in Taipeh/Taiwan. Kein weiteres befindet sich außerhalb dieser Einrichtungen. Einige dieser begehrten Schwerter waren Beutegut der 8-Nationen-Allianz während der Opiumkriege in China. Deshalb haben nur wenige Leute von den legendären Geschichten über diese Schatzschwerter gehört, was diese noch geheimnisvoller machte.
Die chinesischen Schatzschwerter sind das Symbol der alten chinesischen Kultur, deshalb lohnt es sich zu untersuchen, warum diese Tradition verloren ging. Schwerter waren Waffen in den alten Kriegen, Werkzeuge zur Selbstverteidigung und wichtige Instrumente der Machtkämpfe der alten chinesischen Dynastien.
Quelle wuschu-search.com - Kapitel 1: Einführung in die historisch authentischen Schatzschwerter in China