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Francesca Brunetti

root — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:44:16 +0000

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Francesca Brunetti is an artist and scholar, and she is currently employed as a Teaching Fellow in Design Foundations at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China. She completed a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Texas, Dallas, as well as a MA in Communication Design from the Glasgow School of Art and a MA and BA in Philosophy from La Sapienza University of Rome.

She has exhibited her work in several group and solo shows in the USA, UK, Italy, China, and Japan; held teaching appointments at American, European, and Asian universities; presented her artistic projects at international academic conferences; and published articles about her work in peer-reviewed journals.

Feminist theory informs Francesca’s studio art practice while her artworks provide additional elements to her theoretical investigations into feminism and ecology. She uses 2D analogue and digital artistic techniques, feminist philosophy, and ecocriticism to explore the relationship between female subjectivity and her material existence, the ecocritical approach to visual cultures, and the representation of women in cultural productions.

Fei Li

Thu, 12 May 2016 10:49:16 +0000

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feili.us

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Gravity Escapement

Fei Li was born in China. She currently lives and works in New York. Li’s works have been shown in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions in museums and galleries in USA, South Korea, France, Israel, etc. including New Britain Museum of American Art, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and South Korea Asian Culture Center. She was awarded funded Artist residencies in Scotland, France and China. She is also the 2016 awardee of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant funded by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Françoise Issaly

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:16:45 +0000

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francoiseissaly.com

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Filling the Void

Graduated from University Paul Valery in Montpellier, and University Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux, France, where she obtained a DEUG in Plastic Arts, a Licence and a Master in Visual Arts, followed by a D.E.A. in with a mention in “Communication, Arts & Spectacle”, Françoise Issaly did 3 years of research for her Ph.D. before moving to Canada in 1993. For more than 20 years she has been involved in the Visual Arts scene as a professional artist, as an art instructor, as a part of the Fine Art Collective North America and as the editor of her own publishing house. She has shown her work both in solo and group shows in Canada (Quebec), USA (Maryland and California) as well as in Europe (France and Germany) and Malaysia (Langkawi Art Biennial). This is her first exhibition in China.

Frederic Bigras-Burrogano

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:59 +0000

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fburrogano.com

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Black Water

Frederic Bigras – Burrogano is a conceptual photographer who lives and works in Montreal. His work explores assumptions with themes such as biculturalism, heritage and the landscape. One recent series explores the phenomenon of town naming, more precisely towns with borrowed name from other metropolis. At this moment he is doing a two months residency at the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC) and has made the works in this exhibition during his stay here in Xiamen.

He studied at Concordia University and has exhibited at Les Territoires (Montréal, Canada), Aux Vues (Montréal, Canada) and at the Chromatic Festival (Montréal, Canada).

áslaug Thorlacius and Finnur Arnar

root — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:14:38 +0000

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Adventures of The Little Travelling Academy

Friday, 22 December 2006 of The Little Travelling Academy open s their exhibition in the Chinese European Art Center. Xiamen University Art college
The members of the academy are: Icelandic visual artists áslaug Thorlacius and Finnur Arnar, together with their four children, Salv?r, Kristján, Hallgereur and Helga.
Last September The Little Travelling Academy moved periodically from Reykjavík, Iceland to Xiamen, China. Since then they have had their headquarters near the old Typhoon Harbour where they have done various kinds of studies and research by different means.

Floor Kortbeek and Gilles Frenken

root — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:18:24 +0000

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Floor Kortbeek

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PASSING

Floor Kortbeek was born in 1964 in The Netherlands. Her installations incorporate many different techniques, including painting and sculpting. She chooses wood, glass, mirrors, photography, sound and video as her mediums. In many works she is referring to times of the past, her grandmother’s time, to almost forgotten stories and realities. By revitalizing old pictures combined with mirrors, she shows how we are related to our own past and cultural background.

Gilles Frenken was born in 1961 in The Netherlands. He is a documentary filmmaker and photographer who routinely travels the world making films and books about all kinds of people and cultures. In Xiamen he uses his camera for the first time in his life as a contemporary artist, painting with light to make abstract photographic works. Inspired by the modern architecture of Xiamen, Frenken shows futuristic forms, thin traces of light, on a dark background. It is as if he wants to show a world in space, in heaven, a science-fiction kind of life far from here.

Fahrettin Gürkan Örenli

root — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:18:56 +0000

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Fahrettin Gürkan Örenli

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Illusions of Memory

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball 11, Djupivogur, 2018

Rolling Snowball, Nanjing, 2018

Fahrettin was born and raised in the eastern part of Turkey. Since July 1991 he has been living and working in Holland. He graduated from the Photography Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam (1994-1998). From 2000 to 2001 he was a participant at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

“SOCIO-SURREALISM… FOR ME, WHAT WE CALL REALITY CAN BE SEEN AS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIAL SPHERE AND THE SURREAL, A ‘HYPER-REALITY’, A SOCIO-SURREALISM. A NEW REALITY, A CREATION REPRESENTED THROUGH DIVERS MEDIA THAT COMES INTO EXISTENCE BECAUSE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS MERGE WITH ONE ANOTHER. ”

“I STAND AT THE INTERSECTION OF THESE DIFFERENT AND INTERRELATED SPHERES. I WORK WITH PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, VIDEO, INSTALLATION AND POETRY; USING THESE DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES REPRESENT, ON ANOTHER LEVEL THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS AS WELL.”

– Fahrettin Gürkan Örenli

“Orenli is a very serious and committed artist who is exploring the symbolic and
expressive possibilities of painting to tackle contemporary subjects.
A poet also, Orenli combines literature and visual arts to deal with complex human,
social and political issues of our times. ”

– Gerardo Mosquera

Sjerk Timmer and Femke Schaap

root — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 06:45:40 +0000

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SELECTED SPAM

THIS MINUTE

Right after the Amsterdam-based artists Sjerk Timmer and Femke Schaap in 1995 graduated from the Audio Visual department of the Gerrt Rietveld Academy and they both obtained their masters degree in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in 1997, Femke won the first prize in the precious Prix de Rome of Sculpture with her 3 dimensional film-installations. In the past years Femke was new-media teacher at the GRA Art College in Amsterdam and at the AKI Art College in Enschede. Now Sjerk Timmer and Femke Schaap live and work together on video’s, installations and various other works.

Femke Schaap and Sjerk Timmer

root — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 00:31:15 +0000

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www.femkeschaap.nl

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THIS MINUTE

SELECTED SPAM

Femke Schaap(1972)and Sjerk Timmer(1963)both live and work as independent artists in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Rietveld Academy in 1995 and earning their masters degree at the Sandberg Institute for Fine Arts. Femke Schaap is now teaching audio-visual arts at the Rietveld Academy. Next to participation in art shows, together they currently are working on two commissions for art in public space for the Dutch govemment.

Xie Lai and Fang Guangzhi

root — Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:55:37 +0000

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