Fang Lijun’s Solo Exhibition

Today Art Museum

Beijing

Until 8 September 2010

Golden Sky - Yu Hong
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing
Until 15 September 2010 

This exhibition featuring a stunning quartet of five-by-six meter paintings displayed on the ceiling in the manner of classical frescoes, changes the way we interact with Yu Hong’s work and reinvigorates our perception of this versatile and accomplished artist. In her series ‘Witness to Growth’, Yu Hong paired images of herself, friends and family with incidents from recent Chinese history, thus putting private milestones into a broader context and giving social and political upheavals a deeper personal relevance. In ‘Golden Sky’, the artist continues to exhibit the same concern for the everyday and the humane in canvases inspired by classical works of art, informed by extensive historical research and scholarship, and populated by contemporary subjects and subject matter. Yu Hong takes well-known works of Chinese and western art and strips them of their mythical, historical and religious imagery, while maintaining the elements of classical composition. Instead of gods or goddesses, buddhas or bodhisattvas, heroes or prophets or saints, Yu Hong presents us with ordinary mortals going about their ordinary lives against the backdrop of a gilded and uncertain age.
 

Hope Tunnel
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing
Until 23 October 2010

For his solo show at the UCCA, Zhang Huan will exhibit remains of the train which crashed during the 5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan and stretch it over the whole Big Hall exhibition space.

China Park - Gu Wenda
He Xiang Ning Art Museum/OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal at OCT Exhibition Hall, 800# Puxing Road, Sino-Italian Center Square, Shanghai Pujiang Overseas Chinese Town, Shanghai
Until 15 November 2010 

This year Gu Wenda has been invited to present his work China Park at The Shanghai Pujiang Overseas Chinese Town 10 Year Public Art Project. China Park is a public art plan the artist designed specifically for Pujiang Overseas Chinese Town. Its conceptual focus is on the traditions and future of landscape art, China’s best known traditional public art form. It is a component in the `Green Calligraphy Landscape Art Project’, a bold, long-term experiment in public art that combines conceptual and formal alterations of Chinese character calligraphy with oriental landscape art as a public art form. The goal of the project is to create an ideal for future cities and an esthetic of ecology that is rooted in China and forms a new green way of life. It consists of three components organically incorporated into the Sino-Italian Center Square

at the Pujiang Overseas Chinese Town.

Conference: Collecting Asian Contemporary Art: What, When and How?
at ShContemporary 2010 at Shanghai Exhibition Centre
Shanghai
9 September 2010 

Organized  by Hou Hanru, contemporary art museums from around the world will discuss issues surrounding institutional collections of Asian contemporary art such as: What is a public institution today, in the age of commoditisation of art? What is the special way to define the public and private in the context of the globalising Asia?  How to collect, conserve and present contemporary art when it’s becoming increasingly diversified in terms of media, languages and materiality? How do specific visions and strategies for collecting affect the missions of different museums, especially in the context of Asian contemporary art? How can collecting contemporary art affect public policy when increasing attention is paid to the production of culture and art by public authorities? What is the best economic model for collection of Asian contemporary art? Why collect Asian contemporary art, in the end? And what would be an ideal museum for it?

Blue Room - Yang Shaobin
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing
25 September – 14 November 2010