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 Since Thursday, mallrats visiting Citic Plaza on Nanjing road may have noticed the greeting card and painting exhibit on the ground floor, right across from McDonald's. We were struck by how atypically childlike the artwork was, and then we found out why: they were all produced by children. The event is called the "Share Your Love" Art Charity program and is organized and hosted by the SMIC Private School in Pudong. We'll let the website speak to the rest:
This is a meaningful initiative where students’ works are put up for exhibition and sale and all proceeds collected go to the Shanghai Red Cross Society to help disadvantaged children.
Through this program, not only do we hope to assist disadvantaged children, we also want to teach our school children to be more environmentally friendly and at the same time, offer families an opportunity to appreciate what they have and share their blessings.
Normally Shanghaiist is a miser who hisses at small children on the street, but we were taken with the environmentally friendly shopping bags and snapped up all the ones with pandas painted on them. Since we're now officially philanthropists, we thought we'd go all the way and encourage our dear readers to go for a good cause. Today's the last day and we apologize for the late notice, but if you're in the area and are imbued by the spirit of Christmas giving, you may want to stop by and check it out. The event will be open until 10 pm tonight at Citic Square, 1168 Nanjing West Road (Exit at Shi Men Yi Road Station on Subway Line 2).
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Hairong Tiantian (海容天天) is at it again (and again, and again, and again), inspiring China on to philosophical nirvana with her highly profound works of performance art. This time, her message is about how clothes maketh the (wo)man, and how people position you in their minds based on what you wear (or don't wear). Quote of the Day: "我个人是不穿衣主义" (which can be loosely translated as "I don't believe in wearing clothes"). Enough said. Watch the video for yourself and make your own conclusions.
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Superkiy of Current TV takes a look at the censorship of Chinese artists that took place before the opening of the 17th Party Congress. Fascinating interviews, and even more fascinating art! We loved, in particular, the statues of the female Mao's. We swear there's nothing like some good, dissident art to start our day with!
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As John Meckley finds out in the Yangpu district, good graffiti is to be found in this city!
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 This looks like an interesting collaborative multimedia exhibition in town that's happening in conjunction with the ongoing Shanghai eARTS Festival. From the organisers:
"MADE IN SHANGHAI" is an interactive multimedia exhibition coordinated by Valère Terrier of Visual System, Thomas Charveriat, Zane Mellupe and Zou Susu, showing Chinese and International projects developed during the Moganshan Lab program. Moganshan Lab is a name given to the one month artists' residency in Island6 Arts Center during September 2007. The exhibition will cover electronic, digital and interactive artwork which will be shown during the whole period of eARTS festival organized by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.
MADE IN SHANGHAI
Island6 Arts Center @ 120 Moganshan Road (莫干山路120号)
Opening tonight at 8 P.M
Exhibition: October 19th - November 19th 2007*
Daily 10.00 - 19.00 hr.
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 Our favourite local restaurant, ARCH (hmm... whatever happened to their website?), presents The Alternative Art Project by Shanghai-based photographer Alexandra Diez de Rivera who went inside the homes of 12 families living in Shanghai and creates 12 amazing portraits that blur the line between the real and the surreal.
What:
The Alternative Art Project
by Alexandra Diez de Rivera
Where:
ARCH @ 438 Wukang Lu, by Huaihai Zhonglu
(武康路438弄，近淮海中路)
Tel: 6466 0807
When:
TONIGHT, 8.30pm
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This painting is called Execution. Along the entire backdrop is a long, red wall which reminds one of the wall outside the Forbidden City. Yet Yue Minjun, the artist, who is based in Beijing, insists his painting should not be seen as depicting that unspeakable event of 1989.
Billed by Sotheby's as "among the most historically important paintings of the Chinese avant-garde ever to appear at auction", the painting had apparently been sold a decade ago "under condition that the painting not be shown in public because of its subject matter".
Apparently the auction held in London had other exciting moments, including the unexpected outburst from a man who shouted "Shame on all of you! You're spending millions of pounds on art and the world is falling apart!" (see video). He was quickly escorted away, and the sale went on.
The record sale of 2.9 million British pounds ($5.9 million) smashed the previous record for the most expensive work of Chinese contemporary art ever sold, also held by Yue for his "The Pope" sold for nearly 2.15 million British pounds ($4.37 million). Earlier this week at yet another Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, another of Yue's works "The Massacre at Chios," sold for nearly $4.1 million. With such rising fortunes, the artist definitely has good reason to be laughing. Now you know why you've been seeing so many of his works all around town. They're all fakes.
"The Pope" and "The Massacre at Chios" after the jump!
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There isn't a live music update this week, but it's art shows galore TONIGHT. Three picks that aren't in your conventional Moganshan Lu / Taikang Lu destinations.
ART LABOR GALLERY, from 5pm
10–36 Yongjia lu by Maoming Lu (永嘉路10-36号，近茂名路)
Phone: 6431 7782, info@artlaborclub.com, www.artlaborgallery.com
Art photographer Yuichi Hibi from New York City presents a selection of his works from his internationally acclaimed book imprint. Influenced by film noir and described by critics as “weirdly charged environments”, and noted for their “coiled muscularity”, the photographs explore the emotions of exile and isolation. Recording late night street scenes in New York, or returning to Japan as an outsider to the country he left behind, Hibi has, according to the Los Angeles Times, affinities with the “stray dog” aesthetic of Daido Moriyama and Robert Frank.
SHANGHAI STUDIO from 9pm
1950 Huaihai Zhonglu, No. 4, by Xingguo Lu (淮海中路1950弄4号)
Shanghai Studio is back with yet another multi-dimensional show featuring the kinky new sculpture-paintings of Rita Portugal Lima called Noisy Undiscovered Taste and Mirrors from notable Korean video artist Jung Chul Hur.
LIULI CHINA MUSEUM
158 Madang Rd, Xintiandi, near Zizhong Road (马当路158号)
Admission: RMB50; Tel: 53829886
If you haven't yet caught the Institution Glass Art Invitation Exhibition 2007 held by Liuli China together with the Fine Art College of Shanghai University, tonight (and tomorrow) is your LAST CHANCE. feature a fresh, innovative and powerful display of contemporary Liuli art from art school academics. The show features a fresh, innovative and powerful display of contemporary Liuli art from art school academics. And if you still don't know, the guys behind Liuli China are the guys that brought us the amazing bar, restaurant and lounge TMSK at Xintiandi.
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 An exhibition on Antoni Gaudi in Shanghai? It sounded too good to be true. Held in MoCA, from August 19th to October 5th, "Cosmos Gaudi, Architecture, Geometry and Design" is definitely worth the visit though.
On two floors, you will be guided through examples of his work, studies he made on different materials, furnitures of all shapes and sizes, to show you how he used geometrics and ergonomics to incorporate them into his constructions.
Two rooms are dedicated to broadcasting a documentary on his work in Spain (we sat watching it so intensely that only after a while did we realize it was in Spanish), and several panels on the different stages of his life (where you can learn, for example, that Gaudi died in a traffic accident, that some of his major works have been classified as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1984, or that Park Güell in Barcelona was designed for 60 families, but could never be completed due to financial reasons).
"Cosmos Gaudi" is a pleasant exhibition, well organized and full of information on Spain's great architectural designer. But if you have the opportunity to go to Barcelona to check out Gaudi's work for real, only then will the journey through "Cosmos Gaudi" be complete.
Photo from Regina loving Beijing.
"Cosmos Gaudi: Architecture, Geometry and Design"; Moca Shanghai, People's Park, 231 Nanjing West Road (上海当代艺术管，人民公园，南京西路231号). Tel: (21) 6327 9900. Email: info@mocashanghai.org. Open every day from 10am to 6pm (Wednesday: 10am to 10pm).
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