Interview With Lucy+Jorge Orta
Friday, November 9, 2012
“Each individual keeps an eye on, and protects, the other. One individual’s life depends on the life of the other.In Lucy’s work, the warmth of one gives warmth to the other. The physical link weaves a social link.” French urban philosopher Paul Virilo wrote about the Lucy+Jorge Orta’s work “Nexus Architecture”. And this autumn,we will have the opportunity to see their work at 2012 Shanghai Biennale.
This is a fancy combination, Lucy was a fashion designer, and George is an Argentine artist. When Lucy first met Jorge in 1991, was during the Argentine dictatorship. (Continued)
Interview with Ceezy
Saturday, November 10, 2012
“因为人性并不完美，有善必定有恶，只要这个作品不是单纯为商业考虑而是表达他真实的状态，就有存在的价值，我们得面对一切真实的东西。”
—-Ceezy (Continued)
Shanghai Style – Shanghai Fashion Week S/S
Saturday, November 10, 2012
On Sunday 25 October, the runway lights dimmed for Shanghai Fashion Week 2013 Spring/Summer. During the proceeding 8 days local and international brands debuted their latest looks at Shanghai Xintiandi’s Taiping Lake Park. (Continued)
Reactivation－A Conversation with Qiu Zhijie
Friday, November 9, 2012
The title of “Chief Curator of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale” has brought Qiu Zhijiein to the media spotlight. As he talks about Shanghai’s position in the art world, his unique perspective immediately distinguishes him from other interviewees. (Continued)
Shanghai Nostalgia – Artist Bei Jiaxiang
Friday, November 9, 2012
After twenty years in Australia, the artist Bei Jiaxiang was asked to return to his hometown of Shanghai for a special purpose: to organize a large-scale series of paintings called “The River Runs East”.
It is an ambitious attempt to capture the warp and woof of Shanghai’s history, in oils – from the establishment and founding of the city, its heady rise to being a commercial centre in the 1930s, the rise of the working class, the birth of the Chinese Communist Party, and the passing of the torch of revolution forwards. It encompasses all the vagaries of Shanghai’s history, all its characters and personalities, its double life as a foreign entrepot and the cradle of the Chinese revolution – and the painter’s own recollections of a childhood spent in this city. All for the purpose of forming something greater than the sum of its parts – a seemingly familiar but sometimes foreign portrait of Shanghai. (Continued)