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City’s cultural riches to be displayed in Paris
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A Hangzhou City Culture Exhibition is to be held at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and France.
Carousel du Louvre is an underground shopping mall near the Louvre museum.
Running from January 9-12, the exhibition is at the Carousel Gallery exit.
Named “Rong — From West Lake to Louvre,” the Hangzhou exhibition displays 15 works by a group of 13 designers, including furniture, accessories, installations and fashions, all made from bamboo from Hangzhou, though in completely different forms, textures and functions.
Rong, in Chinese, means harmony, blending and melting. The “Rong” exhibition has held earlier this year at the La Triennale di Milano in Italy, and at Il Ciani, in Lugano, Switzerland.
“We chose the (‘Rong’) exhibition because it represents Hangzhou very well, and it is popular with professionals and ordinary people,” said Wang Jian’er, deputy minister of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Hangzhou Committee and director of the Hangzhou Information Office.
A team of 13 designers, in a four-month stay in Hangzhou about a year ago, sought to “deconstruct” bamboo, the traditional and representative material of Hangzhou, and apply it to contemporary designs. The group included 10 Chinese artists, two Germans and also a Serbian.
Bamboo is used as a veneer, a grip, a fiber, a skin, paper and tubing, creating works such as a stool made of several pieces of long, curved bamboo veneer; sponge-texture pottery, formed from bamboo fibers and clay; an installation comprised of huge flutes, and carpet woven from bamboo paper and other fibers.
“We started studying traditional techniques of handling bamboo, then developed new materials and then designs,” said Ray Zhang, curator and director of Pinwu Design Company.
“We do not copy tradition, we open the range of tradition and produce contemporary designs,” he added.
Noted local photographer Pan Jie has made a video and a series of photos. He will follow the team to France and shoot a video with the same name, “From West Lake to Louvre.”
Hangzhou officials say they are using “folk power” to give the city worldwide exposure. This month, the government used the Hangzhou Internet Culture Festival to encourage citizens to upload their videos about their home.
“Cultural production is a very effective way to advertise the city, and we encourage nongovernmental enterprises and individuals to promote the city,” Wang said.
The Louvre exhibition is co-organized by the Hangzhou Information Office and the Hangzhou People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
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