This exhibition entitled The Red Snowball is the last part of the three celebration exhibitions on the occasion of the ten year anniversary of the Chinese European Art Center. The first one called The Dialogue has held in November from last year here at the Art Center and also in the exhibition space of the Art College \u2013 the second one Dialogue 2010 was held at the Dutch Cultural Centre in Shanghai in May and June this year.<\/p>\n

The participants in the Red Snowball exhibition have all been working with the CEAC in the past ten years and are all connected to The Netherlands and China in one way or another.<\/p>\n

Participants exhibition: The Red Snowball<\/p>\n

Meiya Lin (CN\/NL)
\nLost paradise, Video work <\/p>\n

Kan Xuan (CN)
\nTry Out, Video works<\/p>\n

Yang Jian (CN)
\nPigfat and Linear Narrative, Video works<\/p>\n

Chen Wenling (CN)
\nHappy Life No. 21, Sculpture<\/p>\n

Jia Zhixing (CN) Postgraduate student Xiamen University Art College
\nMemento, Collage<\/p>\n

Paul Kooiker (NL)
\n\u201cUntitled\u201d 2007 (Swimming Men in Sea), photo works<\/p>\n

Sigurdur Gudmundsson (IS\/NL\/CN)
\nHead and Cauliflower, 2009, video<\/p>\n

Gerald van der Kaap (NL)
\nPhoto works: Fang & Limei (Kiss), Fang & Limei (Make-up), Passing the Information, Limei (Watch),
\nVideo work: Weiwei (Track) <\/p>\n

Monique Verhoeckx (NL)
\n\u2018The old harp\u2019 based from one of the poems from the Chinese poet Po Tsju Bai Juyi and J.Slauerhoff from the book \u2018A hundred and seventy Chinese poems\u2019 (1925), film<\/p>\n

Bas Prinsen (NL)
\nSection Xiamen 2007, photo works<\/p>\n

Vroegop\/Schoonveld (NL)
\nAmong others, Installation 2010<\/p>\n

Sema Bekirovic (NL)
\nUntitled (mountain) in cooperation with Rutger Emmenlkamp, Installation
\nUntitled (ants), Video work<\/p>\n

We celebrate this special occasion with book launch,\u2019The Red Snowball\u2019
\nThe new book is about Ten Years Cross Cultural Activities of the Chinese European Art Center Xiamen University Art College.
\nIt has been made in the past two years.
\nThe book is a richly illustrated document of ten years activities of the Chinese European Art Center.
\nIn 320 pages the book shows how fruitful the China-Europe has been from the very beginning of CEAC in 1999.<\/p>\n

The Red Snowball contains images of artworks made by more than two hundred artists from more than twenty countries the Dutch and Chinese artists are specially highlighted because of their tied relationship with the CEAC, the Art College and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

The Red Snowball <\/p>\n

Design: Irma Boom
\nLanguage: Chinese and English
\nPublisher: Hebei Press, China\/ Jap Sam Books, The Netherlands<\/p>\n

The book was published with the support of The Mondriaan Foundation, China Netherlands Art Foundation, The Xiamen University, De Gijselaar Hintzenfonds Foundation, AMPEK, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Guangzhou. <\/p>\n

The Red Snowball contains articles about the CEAC activities written by the following authors:<\/p>\n

Tineke Rijnders, art historian and former chair woman of the CEAC foundation

\nGarrie van Pinxsteren, writer and journalist
\nQin Jian, Professor Xiamen University Art College
\nSigurdur Gudmundsson, artist
\nCarol Yinghua Lu, art historian and essayist
\nLeonard Bluss\u00e9, Professor
\nJos Howeling, Dean Sandberg Institute
\nLucy Chen, former chief assistant CEAC
\nVivian Zhang, editior Common Talk
\nPaul Hefting, art historian
\nAllard Schroder, writer
\nSally Zhiwei Chen, Foreign Office, Xiamen
\nRashid Novaire, writer
\nHong Rongman, artist <\/p>\n