B – CEAC

Bilal Chalal

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:41:41 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

Variation on a Theme a game between numbers and space

The works of Chahal are in Private collections as in Museum Diart, Erice Italy, collection R. Farnell and D. Dechleva, and R. van Sabben. He won the Arthur Anderson Award in 1998 and in 2005 he received an award from the president of the Unesco Sicily recognising his talent as an exceptional artist on his field. Chahal also has been working with professor Patrick Healy since 2004 on his theory and philosophy according Rawminism, an ism that describes the work and the techniques on how to see, understand and approach the art and especially Chahal’s art.

BEN TARANTO

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:09:24 +0000

Artists website

bentaranto.com

CEAC exhibition

Ben Taranto is an interdisciplinary artist with a sculpture and installation based practice. His practice shifts between art and earth sciences, while balancing the physical with the transcendental. His work considers the human condition in relation to built, natural and virtual environments.

Physical materials such as glass, concrete and steel, often combined with non-physical elements such as the moving image, space, light and sound are used to explore how our senses assist us to perceive, relate and respond to various built and natural environments.

Taranto recognises his art practice as existing within the Anthropocene or Human Era. The unofficially named present era in which we modern humans now live, control and impact on major events such as climate, the alteration and movement of large amounts of earth, and the reduction of biodiversity from oceans, seas and rivers globally.

Bruno Bussmann

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:45:10 +0000

Artists website

brunobussmann.ch

CEAC exhibition

I’m the artist not the painter

I am fascinated by the ways of doing things. – I`m using different levels and views of the image, different connections of expressions and visualisation of a feeling, a mentality or a process of thoughts. They are coming out of a view on life through the living process. – Visualisation of unthought things, the limitation of visualisation put into poetry or out of reflections of so called rules and laws on any level. – Exercises to preserve the fantasy and imagination. (1200 oil drawings and etchings).

Bettie van Haaster

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:22:16 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

Stay Put…

In drawings shapes and spaces and their intricate interweaving are followed. In watercolours fields and shapes of fleshy colour are depicted. The artist alternates making small structured paintings with thickly applied paint with periods of drawing and making watercolors. Both are sides of an earthiness underlying all works, referring to landscapes and spaces which can be seen as landscapes of our thoughts. The title Stay put refers to a quote from the book One square inch of silence by Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann. This book tells about a man’s journey to investigate and preserve silence as a human right to be able to connect with ourselves. -Stay put is also needed to make the works. -Stay put is needed to look at them and see. Stay put and concentrates on what you see in your everyday surroundings. There you”ll find wonderful shapes and colours in a cat, fruit, a plant or tree. All the miracles of the world are in closed in that surrounding, if you take time and see.

Bob Takes

root — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:39:30 +0000

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Bob Takes

CEAC exhibition

Anaglyphs, 3D woodblock prints of Seascapes

Bob Takes (1953) is a steel sculpture artist based in Antwerp. He studied graphic design and audiovisual design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the 80’s. Although his art is diversified, his background in graphic design is still clearly recognizable. Within his autonomous work Takes likes to play around and balance on the border of abstract and figurative. In the past Takes showed his work in established art spaces but also on a large scale in public spaces. Within most of the processes he goes through in order to make an artwork, he combines the digital with the manual. He came to Xiamen to take this merging of digital craft and manual craft a step further.

Bert van Loo

root — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:07:09 +0000

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Bert van Loo

CEAC exhibition

Voyage

Rolling Snowball 3, Guangzhou, 2012

Bert van Loo got his education mainly at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and studied a period at the Royal College of Art in London. Travelled extensively to north and South America, all of Europe, China and Japan, won a few prizes, got a few grants and did about 20 large scale commissions. His work is represented by more than 25 museums, as well as many private collections. He exhibited almost everywhere and had one retrospective: “BERT VAN LOO – Naturalezas cruzadas – Cutting trough nature – Dwars door de natuur” at the Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio, Segovia, Spain.” (With catalogue.)

Bart Dorst

root — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:49:29 +0000

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www.bartdrost.nl

CEAC exhibition

MAAS at CEAC

Bart Dorst (NL)

Drawings are most of the time the source of the works of the Dutch artist Bart Drost. Small sketches, scribbles and diary drawings turn out into paintings, sculptures, installations or even performances. Together with the former MAAS Artist in Residence Zhixing Jia, Drost visited the Venice Biennale in 2011. The drawings Drost made during this trip are the starting point for the three large format paintings (indian ink and gesso on bitumen paper) now shown at CEAC.

Bärbel Schulte Kellinghaus

root — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:31:02 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

Untitled

Bärbel Schulte Kellinghaus was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She studied art in Düsseldorf, Academy of Fine Arts and specialized with Jannis Kounellis. Since 2006 she lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, Brussels, Est Belgium Art Center, in Germany, Bonn, Berlin and Italy, Milan.

Bill Aitchison

root — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:50:23 +0000

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Bill Aitchison

CEAC exhibition

The Customer Is Always Wrong

Rolling Snowball, Nanjing, 2018

Rolling Snowball 11, Djupivogur, 2018

Under The Bed Sale

The Medusa Effect

On Holiday

Bill Aitchison is an inter-disciplinary artist based in China and curator of Last Minute Live Art. He has presented his performances, soundworks, photography and videos in galleries, theatres and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, Australia and The Middle East and his artwork is held in private collections and museums. He holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is a graduate of Ecole de Mime Corporel. He has published critical, creative and journalistic texts in several countries, made a number of works for radio, regularly mentors creative projects and teaches at Xiamen University.

BJORN NORGAARD

root — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:28:10 +0000

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BJORN NORGAARD

CEAC exhibition

85th Anniversary of Xiamen University

Rolling Snowball 2, Quanzhou, 2011

Rolling Snowball 7, Djupivogur, 2016

The Dialogue

BJORN NORGAARD 1947 , SCULPTOR PROFESSOR.

WORKED WITH : SCULPTURE, AKTIONS, INSTALLATIONS, FILM, PRINTING TECHNICS, ARCHITECTURE, WRITING, POLITIC IN ALL KIND OF MATERIALS, ALL OVER THE WORLD SINCE 1964.

COMPANY NAME ” SCULPTOR BJORN NORGAARD”

MANAGER : BJORN NORGAARD

ASSISTENT : HENRIK KEIL

WWW.BJOERNNOERGAARD.DK
THE EXHIBITION IN CEAC HAS FOUR ELEMENTS :
1. 4 VIDEO SCREENS SHOWING FILMS FROM 1967 UP TO NOW.
2. 4 INDEPENDENT CERAMIC SCULPTURES DONE IN COOPERATION WITH ”WOW-WORKSHOP”, XIAMEN.
”THE LITTLE DANCER”
”ART IS WHAT”

”THE GLOBAL SEAT”
”FOOTREST”
3. ”MICKEYS OPERA” 12 CERAMIC SCULPTURES DONE IN COOPERATION WITH ”WOW-WORKSHOP”,TERRA VITA XIAMEN.
HERE WE HAVE ALL MICKEYS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.HIS MOTHER, HIS FATHER, HIS SISTER, HIS BROTHER, HIS GRANDMOTHER,HIS GRANDFATHER, HIS COUSIN, HIS AUNT, HIS UNCLE, HIS SWEETHEART, HIS NEIGHBOUR, HIS LOST FRIEND.
THEY ARE ALL SINGING ”WHERE IS MICKEY” OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEY ARE ALL LOOKING FOR MICKEY, THEY ALL MISS MICKEY.
MAYBE IT IS MICKEY MOUSE, THE LITTLE SMART GUY WHO BEAT ALL THE BIG BAD GUYS, MAYBE ITS THE GOOD AMERICAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD FROM FASCISM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND GENEROUSLY HELPED THE WORLD AFTER, SO WE NOW FOR GOOD AND BAD ARE A PART OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, BUT IN THIS GLOBALIZED WORLD WHERE ALL THE BIG GUYS AND ALL THE BIG MONEY MAKES US ALL BECOME THE SAME, THE SAME CARS, SAME FOOD, SAME MOVIES, SAME COCA-COLA, SAME SHOES, SAME IDEALS, WE NEED MICKEY TO FIGHT BACK SO WE AT SAME TIME CAN WORK TOGETHER AND BE DIFFERENT, UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY.
BUT MAYBE WE ALL ARE LOOKING FOR MICKEY, MAYBE WE ALL ARE LOOKING FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH, WE TRY TO BUY THE MEANING THROUGH BIGGER AND BIGGER CARS, BUT WHAT WE NEED IS TO FIND MICKEY INSIDE OURSELF.
SO ”WHERE IS MICKEY”.
4. THE INSTALLATION ”ATYPIA”. IN THE 15TH CENTURY THOMAS MOORE WROTE HIS FAMOUS BOOK ”UTOPIA”, AND SINCE THEN THE WORLD HAS SUFFERED FROM MORE BIG IDEAS, ABOUT HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT ”UTOPIA”, THE PROBLEM WAS, THAT IF THE MAN DID NOT FIT TO THE THEORY, IT WAS NOT THE THEORY WHO SHOULD BE CHANGED, BUT THE MAN. IN ”ATYPIA” IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, HERE COMES THE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL PERSON FIRST, AND ANY VARIATION THAT IS CARRIED OUT, WITH LOVE AND RESPECT FOR OTHER PEOPLES VARIATIONS, CAN BLOSSOM IN ”ATYPIA”

MANY THANKS TO WOW-WORKSHOP，RODNEY，STEVENS AND THEIR STAFF，WITHOUT THEIR GENEROUS HELP THIS HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE.

BJOERN NOERGAARD XIAMEN 2006