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WARM spring weather intoxicates people’s senses and opens their minds to cultural activities, which makes it easier for Hangzhou to enchant people not only through scenery but also with its artistic atmosphere.
As mild breezes begin to blow, a passel of exhibitions, shows and concerts are blooming for art fans. Luckily, many of them are held in scenic areas, so in this case enjoying the views and absorbing cultural presentations can be combined.
Shanghai Daily highlights some of the events.
R3PM3 Zhou Yilun’s Works Exhibition
You don’t need to get dressed up for this exhibition: Consider the gallery as a boutique store, said Zhou Yilun, the artist of this solo exhibition — or, as he calls it, a sale of R3MP3 brand items.
R3MP3, the brand, is the label on the goods made by Zhou, including clothes, trousers, shoes and accessories. All the items he makes are for sale.
The young artist didn’t just make ordinary stuff. All the works are punky, funky, and catchy.
On the back of a black leather jacket there are patches of a dozen patterns from other clothes, such as a skeleton cut by an axe on top, words like “LOVE” and “PEACE,” and sentences like “Fighter by day, lover by night.” It took 10 pieces of material to make one jacket.
Similarly, a pair of sports pants is made from more than 10 pieces of other sport pants, the type with stripes on the sides. Zhou cut all the stripes and sewed them into one.
“I started this kind of adaptation since I did not want clothes to look the same as others, and gradually some complicated and ingenious ones become artworks,” said Zhou.
He also melted plastics, welded discarded metal, and shaped pottery into rings, necklaces, hats and shoes.
Date: Through April 28, 10am – 5pm
Address: 465 Hefang Street
Tujia Ethnic Minority Brocade Exhibition
If you are fond of the pixilated style of the cellphone game “Flappy Bird,” you’ll appreciate seeing the “ancestor” of pixel patterns at the Tujia Ethnic Minority Brocade Exhibition held at the China National Silk Museum.
The Tujia ethnic minority lives in China’s Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou provinces and are known for weaving thick cotton threads into brocade. The boldness of the threads makes the clothes look like they are composed of thousands of pixels.
The patterns on the brocades are never smoothly lined up. A dragon head, a delicate design, has a square head, mouth like a rectangle pipe, and a zigzag beard, with a body like of a cellphone screen serpent in the game “Gluttonous Snake.”
Animals, flowers and even daily commodities are sources of inspiration for Tujia craft artists.
However, the traditional technology is being handed down less and less, and the China National Silk Museum bought 100 pieces of Tujia brocade and is showcasing them through late August. The display includes some Xilankapu, the best and most complicated type of Tujia brocade.
Date: Through August 19 (closed on Mondays), 9am-5pm
Address: 73-1 Yuhuangshan Rd
Yu Le Tang’s Kunqu Opera
On the first floor is a restaurant and teahouse; second floor, a ballroom; third floor, a small theater. Yu Le Tang opened earlier this month in a historical building, providing traditional Chinese foods and culture.
In the debut of its third floor theater, a Kunqu Opera performance was given earlier this month. The actors and audience sitting in the first row are only 5 meters apart. Kunqu is one of the oldest of China’s opera styles, famed for its refined nature and delicacy.
“The theater was designed for this close-distance Kunqu Opera show,” said the general manager, Dai Zhiqing, adding that the theater will host only Kunqu Opera.
“It is a wonderful thing for the audience to watch how players make eyes at each other,” said Lin Weilin, director of Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe.
The 66-seat-theater does not need a sound system, and no microphones are used.
The classical show “Peony Pavilion” will be staged on April 13, 19 and 26, and starting in May it will be staged every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30pm. The tickets for April have been sold out. Length of the play is 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Address: 62 Zhongshan Rd M.
Tel: (0571) 8755-5780
Ticket price: 580-1,280 yuan (US$93-206)
Other exhibitions and shows
• Muma Theater Performance Week
Play “Style of Beijing”
Date: April 5-7, 7:30pm
Talk Show “To Recognize Print Painting”
Date: April 12, 7:30pm
Play “Last Supper”
Date: April 15-16, 7:30pm
Play “Sexiest Man’s Voice”
Date: April 18-19, 7:30pm
Address: 2/F, Muma Theater, Xihu Cultural Plaza
Admission: 80-360 yuan
• The Etruscans — The Dawn of Ancient Italy
Date: Through April 19 (closed onMondays), 9am-5pm
Address: Basement, Wulin Pavilion, Zhejiang Museum, Xihu Cultural Plaza
• Pan Gongkai’s Art Exhibition
Date: Through May 4 (closed on Mondays), 9am-5pm
Address: Zhejiang Art Museum,138 Nanshan Rd
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