Centennial retrospective exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opens
1 year, 3 months ago

Centennial retrospective exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opens

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Official poster of The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki. The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki, co-curated by the Art Museum of China Academy of Art and the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation, officially opened at the Art Museum of CAA in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province on Sept 19, 2023. The exhibition is a key project The exhibition showcases over 200 pieces of Zao's important oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and porcelain paintings, as well as related visuals belonging to Zao's wife Françoise Marquet, prominent collectors and art institutions across the globe, including the Centre Pompidou, Le Centre national des arts plastiques, the Musée Cernuschi, National Gallery Singapore, Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ in Hong Kong, China Art Museum, Suzhou Museum, Deji Art Museum, and Art Museum of CAA. With his artworks collected in more than 150 major museums and art galleries worldwide, such as the Centre Pompidou in France, Tate Modern in the UK and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern in the US, Zao has made unique contributions to cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

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Jiushi Art Museum brings together Zao Wou-ki's art with poems composed by renowned authors
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Jiushi Art Museum brings together Zao Wou-ki's art with poems composed by renowned authors

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The exhibition "Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki" opens at Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai. A new exhibition at Jiushi Art Museum brought together the artworks of Zao Wou-ki, a Chinese-French artist, and poems composed by renowned authors such as Henri Michaux, Rene Char, Ezra Pound, Andre Malraux and so on. Going on from June 29 to …

Jiushi Art Museum brings together Zao Wou-ki's art with poems composed by renowned authors
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Jiushi Art Museum brings together Zao Wou-ki's art with poems composed by renowned authors

China Daily  

The exhibition "Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki" opens at Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai. A new exhibition at Jiushi Art Museum brought together the artworks of Zao Wou-ki, a Chinese-French artist, and poems composed by renowned authors such as Henri Michaux, Rene Char, Ezra Pound, Andre Malraux and so on. Going on from June 29 to …

Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki featured in upcoming Shanghai exhibition
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki featured in upcoming Shanghai exhibition

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Exhibition Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki will present more than 80 prints the artist created from the 1950s to the early 2000s. Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki will be featured at the upcoming exhibition of the Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai from June 29 to Oct 13. Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki will …

Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki featured in upcoming Shanghai exhibition
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki featured in upcoming Shanghai exhibition

China Daily  

Exhibition Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki will present more than 80 prints the artist created from the 1950s to the early 2000s. Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki will be featured at the upcoming exhibition of the Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai from June 29 to Oct 13. Echoes of Verses: The Poetic Palimpsests of Zao Wou-Ki will …

Village people
1 year ago

Village people

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Visitors enjoy a sea of blossoms in Fengyi village, Zhejiang. CHINA DAILY For four decades, Zhao has been practicing the distinctive art form of zaotou painting, which is listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. "It is an efficient way for them to try, or to practice, the art form," Zhao says. "Travelers have been on the rise since the …

Village people
1 year ago

Village people

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Visitors enjoy a sea of blossoms in Fengyi village, Zhejiang. CHINA DAILY For four decades, Zhao has been practicing the distinctive art form of zaotou painting, which is listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. "It is an efficient way for them to try, or to practice, the art form," Zhao says. "Travelers have been on the rise since the …

Home is where the art is
1 year, 1 month ago

Home is where the art is

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Zao Wou-Ki teaches at his painting workshop in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in 1985. The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opened at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou last month, and will run until Feb 20. As a significant cultural program, held as part of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, the exhibition is …

Home is where the art is
1 year, 1 month ago

Home is where the art is

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A group photo of Zao and those attending his workshop. "Zao pointed at his well-insulated studio and told us that he was always caught up in a struggle there," Xu says. "Sometimes, a large painting fell on him, which trapped and 'buried' him for as long as 10 minutes," Xu recalls, adding that Zao's sincere pursuit of great art was …

Home is where the art is
1 year, 1 month ago

Home is where the art is

China Daily  

Zao Wou-Ki teaches at his painting workshop in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in 1985. The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opened at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou last month, and will run until Feb 20. As a significant cultural program, held as part of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, the exhibition is …

An artist of the people
2 years, 3 months ago

An artist of the people

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Ye Qianyu's sketches shown at an ongoing exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting include examples of work the artist created for Mao Dun's novel Ziye and drafts for his seminal piece The Liberation of Beiping. Ye's works were drawn from his personal experiences of living in Shanghai and socializing with people from different backgrounds. These drawings are on …

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour
2 years, 3 months ago

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour

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A group photo of Beijing authors and Sinologists on Sept 6, 2022. Representatives of Beijing authors and Sinologists toured the Yangmeizhu Street, a byway in Xicheng district of Beijing, to explore Beijing's traditional culture after the opening ceremony of Beijing Author Day held on Sept 6. Yangmeizhu Street, which is located in the very heart of Beijing, is considered "one …

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour
2 years, 3 months ago

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour

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A group photo of Beijing authors and Sinologists on Sept 6, 2022. Representatives of Beijing authors and Sinologists toured the Yangmeizhu Street, a byway in Xicheng district of Beijing, to explore Beijing's traditional culture after the opening ceremony of Beijing Author Day held on Sept 6. Yangmeizhu Street, which is located in the very heart of Beijing, is considered "one …

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour
2 years, 3 months ago

Writers and Sinologists feel Beijing culture in walking tour

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A group photo of Beijing authors and Sinologists on Sept 6, 2022. Representatives of Beijing authors and Sinologists toured the Yangmeizhu Street, a byway in Xicheng district of Beijing, to explore Beijing's traditional culture after the opening ceremony of Beijing Author Day held on Sept 6. Yangmeizhu Street, which is located in the very heart of Beijing, is considered "one …

Zhejiang Art Museum shows Jinyun painter's works
2 years, 7 months ago

Zhejiang Art Museum shows Jinyun painter's works

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The exhibition Together on the Road, in memory of the 100th anniversary of Li Zhenjian's birth, is on show at the Zhejiang Art Museum. An exhibition in memory of the 100th anniversary of famous artist Li Zhenjian's birth opened on April 26 in the Zhejiang Art Museum – located in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province. Li Zhenjian was …

Custodians of art's stories
3 years, 7 months ago

Custodians of art's stories

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The Raqs Media Collective-created installation at the "Portals, Stories and Other Journeys" exhibition in Tai Kwun Contemporary. "The lineage between the 1950s generation and the 2000s generation might not be immediate or obvious when we only look at artworks as they explore different subject matter and different formal languages," said co-curator of the show Ozge Ersoy. "But the lineage is …

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