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Giuseppina Giordano

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:09:11 +0000

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Giuseppina Giordano was born in Mazara del Vallo, Trapani, on November 25, 1987. In 2006 she began studying Political Science and International Relations at the University of Palermo. However, she interrupted that career in order to enroll in a Painting course of the Brera Academy, from which she obtained her B.A. in 2012. In 2016 she obtained her M.A. in Sculpture with honors and her final project “THE FRESHNESS OF THE EVENT: time of sequence and time of simultaneousness “was proposed for publishing. She lives and works in Milan. This exhibition is made possible by the support of The Secular Society, Virginia, USA.

G.J. de Rook

root — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:51:49 +0000

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Does the branch know there is a trunk?

Dutch visual artist G.J. de Rook came to China to look for an answer to the question he did not find in Europe: ‘Does the branch know there is a trunk?’ After making a number of ‘language sculptures’- site-specific installations in which he only used words – his exhibition in Xiamen will be his first effort to make a installation only using images from different sources.

De Rook uses the branch-trunk relation as a metaphor for the many questions which intrigue him. In short, they can be summed up in the three sentences by the French painter Paul Gauguin :’Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?’ Besides as metaphorical, the artist regards trees as a suitable tool for answering his basic question.

Galina Manikova

root — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:24:39 +0000

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Galina Manikova

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The Great Wall

About herself, about her own life in a foreign landscape, about being exposed and vulnerable, about watching and being watched. Walls symbolise exactly what has been a part of Fu Yang’s everyday struggles and experiences: exclusion, segregation and isolation.

When you enter the exhibition room, you discover that there is not a single picture of The Great Wall to see; the title is only used as a symbol, which is known by everybody.
More than that, the name Fu Yang is too, only a symbol, and the real person behind this pseudo name is Galina Manikova. She is a real cosmopolitan person, born on an earlier Japanese island of Sakhalin, grown up in Moscow, educated at an art academy in Jerusalem and presently living in Norway. More about her life and work can be studied on her web site: www.galina.no.

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.

Gu Yue

root — Mon, 03 May 2004 05:27:37 +0000

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Picture – Reality

Paitings Gu Yue is presenting on this exhibition are chosen from the works he has created over the past three years as a postgraduate student in Art College. Other medias like installations, video films and photo works can also be found on this exhibition.

Through Gu Yue’s practice in creating art pieces with different medias, we could trace a clear feature of his works: the sharp criticism and questioning—the sensitivity to catch any reality that reflects the real world in individuals’ eyes. In this sense, Gu Yue’s paintings exhibited this time represent his development in two directions: his reflection on the “picture age” we are living in, and his discovery of people’s real life condition from pictures. There is never fine line between the two directions. But in Gu Yue’s works, the relationship between picture and reality has been shifted.

Gustav Meist

root — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:55:34 +0000

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Painting 2003

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

My paintings and works on paper flow from emotional moments. It is important for me that people who look at my work can embark on a journey and continually discover new thinks.

That is how I attempt to reveal and make visible both tension and essence.

Wang Qiang, Gu Xiaoping and Gu Xiao jian

root — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 06:04:06 +0000

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Time Space & Me

The three artists come from Nanjing. Their artforms include installation, videos and performance. They took part in the famous performance arts “Human VS Animals” in Qing liang Mountain, Nanjing. In 1998, they setup the working group “Post-idealism”. Facing the coming new century, they threw away all their idealistic burdens and setup an art group “W&G” to carryout their project. To them, arts are things that happen right now and right here, manifesting the way they exist in the same time and space.

Gerald van der Kaap

root — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 01:27:12 +0000

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Passing the information

Rolling Snowball 2, Quanzhou, 2011

Rolling Snowball 3, GuanGzhou, 2012

Rolling Snowball 4, Quanzhou, 2013

Rolling Snowball, Datong, 2017

Rolling Snowball, Shanghai Expo, 2010

Rolling Snowball, Nanjing, 2018

The Dialogue

Kaap lives in Amsterdam, Holland, a city known for its tolerant policy towards drugs and sex. The city is a true melting pot, something that can also be found in the blurry bound eries of the Amsterdam art world. In the city both genres and scenes mix easily, almost naturally. In the beginning of the 90’s Kaap started doing groundbreaking video performances at the famous Amsterdam club RoXY. It was then that a new genre was born: the VJ (veejay), who mixes videos to the music of aDJ. With his pioneering performances Kaap generated a whole school of Dutch veejay 1stXiamen video Dance Night. One day after the opening of his exhibition(on saturday, March 9) Kaap has organized the 1stXiamen video Dance Night. It is then that the Chinese audience can get a chance to experience avj performance for the very first time. The video night also features an art movie about young Chinese people in Holland and short videos by students of Xiamen University Art College. The evening starts at 20:00 and ends late(with music and dancing).

Guido Vlottes

root — Sun, 16 Apr 2000 08:54:28 +0000

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Guido Vlottes

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The mind of the painter

Eight European artists

Guido Vlottes can be seens a painter who stands within the tradition of Dutch art, which is abroad mainly known by it’s 17 century paintings. His attitude to reality and his way and technique of painting are however at all sides different from the portraits, landscape or still lifes of more than three centuries ago, although he remains realated to his ancestros. During the abstraction of the 20th century — when the autonomous artworks ruled the waves — a new realism the Netherlands cames as a reaction that has maintained itself onto now. This realism is dealing with the life and experiences of the painter, but they are not translated in an exact copy of what has been seen or felt. The spectator is, one can say, part of the painting, and with is knowledge and experiences the spectator completes the painting. This can be compared with the Chinese calligraphy — signs originated in reality — which are meaningful and representative, without only representing waht they mean.