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HANGZHOU is known for its beautiful landscapes and natural attractions. But this charming city offers more for the eyes and the imagination than just scenery. It’s now hosting several exciting and innovative art exhibitions, three of which deserve special attention.
Chu Chu’s Solo Exhibition
Chu Chu’s black-and-white photos are very much like traditional Chinese ink-wash paintings, misty and mysterious. These images are made with a full-frame camera, a small aperture and a long exposure. There’s no special filters of digital gimmickry.
The show features several of Chu’s floral and still-life works, as well as images from her “Small Cities” urban-landscape series. Chu excels at combining photography, calligraphy and the motifs of traditional Chinese painting. She holds a master’s degree in new media and a doctoral degree in Chinese calligraphy.
“I’m always touched by objects, I like feeling them in different ways,” she says.
One of Chu’s favorite subjects is dried flowers and fruits — including one pear she dried naturally for three years.
“I want to see what time has done to them,” she explains.
Many of her images also feature classic Chinese sutras, painted with Chinese brush techniques. When viewed from afar, these characters also look as though they are made of flower petals. Her dried fruit and flower pictures, for example, feature lines from “Classics of Poetry,” the oldest extant collection of Chinese verse.
Several of Chu’s works are massive in scale, including a 7-meter-long piece she spent 80 days creating. Again, for such monumental works, she draws inspiration from China’s past.
“Ancient people would spend a long time appreciating one work, but modern people needs something eye-catching,” said Chu, who invites viewers to spend more time contemplating her pieces.
Date: Through July 12
Add: 228 Qiuyi Road, Binjiang District
Sang Huoyao and Mark Rothko
Creating a masterpiece with only two or three colors is no easy task, but modern masters Mark Rothko and Sang Huoyao have achieved fame and artistic renown with their hypnotically minimal works.
Rothko, a founding figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, has captivated the art work for decades with his subtle techniques and deliberate simplicity. Contemporary Chinese artist Sang dips semi-transparent silk squares into watercolor paint, and then joins these squares together to create massive pieces.
A collection of Sang’s latest works are now on view at Hangzhou’s Renke Gallery, along with Rothko’s “Dark Brown Grey Orange” (1963).
Some of Sang’s pieces are wall-size, comprised of hundreds of individually colored squared overlapping with one another. Owing to subtle affects of light and shading, these works appear to have a luminous quality.
Date: Through July 20
Add: 1 Zhongshan Road N.
‘Underground’
Metro travel is part of daily life for many urbanites. It’s also the subject of a new exhibition from contemporary Chinese artists Huang Songhao, Liu Ya and Payne Zhu, the trio behind “Underground.”
Their works draw on advertisements found in the Shanghai and Hangzhou metro systems. These include the faces of stars peeled from advertisement posters and recycled into new works of art. These images are presented in maze-like environment made out of hundreds of cardboard cartons.
The show also features videos from Liu and Zhu as they raced through the subway off Shanghai. There are also images of beggars and fare-dodgers, which are presented in an ironic way.
Date: Through July 3 (closed on Mondays and Tuesdays)
Add: 12 Mansion, Dongxin Creative Park, 139 Liuhe Road
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