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By Xu Wenwen |
April 12, 2011, Tuesday
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HANGZHOU hosts art exhibitions throughout the year and these days some intriguing foreign art exhibits are drawing crowds.
They include dramatic French photography of cities at night, modern Indian art and a South African sculptor's dramatic work in paper.
African sculptor
Sonelle De Klerk, a stone and wood sculptor, didn't try paper sculpture until she arrived in Hangzhou two years. She couldn't find the stone or wood she wanted, so she used her drawing paper.
Her solo exhibition will be held in Clepic Gallery Hangzhou, starting Saturday. It features a very large paper sculpture hanging from the ceiling. People can walk around the three-dimensional spaces she creates with vividly colored paper. It's titled "Displaced."
"The sculpture shows how cultures are connected and different," says De Klerk who has traveled widely and understands the experience of displacement.
"The peculiar shape are combined with two half circles and one entire circle. The entire circle symbolizes something everybody share in common, like food and drink, while the two half circles means the different part," she says.
The exhibition also features 19 drawings and eight paintings, most with subjects drawn from nature. Many are take the exaggerated shapes of plants.
"I love nature and love observing plants," says De Klerk. "Plants always change, from budding, to blooming and withering, or from the overview to the inside look. It's like society and people that always change."
Date: April 16 (Opening at 2pm) to April 30
Address: Clepic Gallery, 465 Hefang Street
Admission: Free
Indian art
Around 100 pieces and groups of diverse Indian modern art from the National Gallery of Modern Art of India are on exhibit at Zhejiang West Lake Art Gallery.
The exhibit "Modern Art of India" is part of the India Festival, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India.
Works range from paintings and miniatures to sculpture and photography. Some demonstrate the influence of British aesthetics popular in the 19th century.
Some of the leading schools of thought from the early 20th century are represented. For example, Bengal School artists were fascinated with Indian history and mythology.
Date: through May 20
Address: 15 Gushan Rd
Admission: Free
French photographer
A bored model in a red satin dress stands at the window of a skyscraper and beyond her are dazzling lights of all kinds.
From a nearby window French photographer Floriane de Lassee captures the sharp contrast between her empty eyes and the glitter of the night.
De Lassee is an expert in showing the night in opulent cities. For several years she has been building "Night Views," a series that brings together vast cityscapes and the intimate lives of urban inhabitants.
The Alliance Francaise de Hangzhou hosts the free exhibition.
The French native went to New York to study photography in 2003. She became fascinated by the night scenes of the city that never sleeps and soon began her project capturing big city nights, including those in New York, Moscow, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Her photographs are like large windows encompassing both the hyperactivity of a city and the quiet solitude of night.
"The idea is not to create a set of postcards, but to evoke a universal feeling of solitude the city and the quiet solitude of night, and the idea is not to create a set of postcards, but to evoke a universal feeling of solitude," De Lassee once said.
Date: through April 30, 8:45am-6pm (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 8:45am-9pm (Tuesday, Thursday), 8:45am-5:30pm (Saturday, Sunday)
Venue: Alliance Francaise of Hangzhou, 198 Jiaogong Rd
Admission: Free
Tel: (0571) 8808-2526
They include dramatic French photography of cities at night, modern Indian art and a South African sculptor's dramatic work in paper.
African sculptor
Sonelle De Klerk, a stone and wood sculptor, didn't try paper sculpture until she arrived in Hangzhou two years. She couldn't find the stone or wood she wanted, so she used her drawing paper.
Her solo exhibition will be held in Clepic Gallery Hangzhou, starting Saturday. It features a very large paper sculpture hanging from the ceiling. People can walk around the three-dimensional spaces she creates with vividly colored paper. It's titled "Displaced."
"The sculpture shows how cultures are connected and different," says De Klerk who has traveled widely and understands the experience of displacement.
"The peculiar shape are combined with two half circles and one entire circle. The entire circle symbolizes something everybody share in common, like food and drink, while the two half circles means the different part," she says.
The exhibition also features 19 drawings and eight paintings, most with subjects drawn from nature. Many are take the exaggerated shapes of plants.
"I love nature and love observing plants," says De Klerk. "Plants always change, from budding, to blooming and withering, or from the overview to the inside look. It's like society and people that always change."
Date: April 16 (Opening at 2pm) to April 30
Address: Clepic Gallery, 465 Hefang Street
Admission: Free
Indian art
Around 100 pieces and groups of diverse Indian modern art from the National Gallery of Modern Art of India are on exhibit at Zhejiang West Lake Art Gallery.
The exhibit "Modern Art of India" is part of the India Festival, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India.
Works range from paintings and miniatures to sculpture and photography. Some demonstrate the influence of British aesthetics popular in the 19th century.
Some of the leading schools of thought from the early 20th century are represented. For example, Bengal School artists were fascinated with Indian history and mythology.
Date: through May 20
Address: 15 Gushan Rd
Admission: Free
French photographer
A bored model in a red satin dress stands at the window of a skyscraper and beyond her are dazzling lights of all kinds.
From a nearby window French photographer Floriane de Lassee captures the sharp contrast between her empty eyes and the glitter of the night.
De Lassee is an expert in showing the night in opulent cities. For several years she has been building "Night Views," a series that brings together vast cityscapes and the intimate lives of urban inhabitants.
The Alliance Francaise de Hangzhou hosts the free exhibition.
The French native went to New York to study photography in 2003. She became fascinated by the night scenes of the city that never sleeps and soon began her project capturing big city nights, including those in New York, Moscow, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Her photographs are like large windows encompassing both the hyperactivity of a city and the quiet solitude of night.
"The idea is not to create a set of postcards, but to evoke a universal feeling of solitude the city and the quiet solitude of night, and the idea is not to create a set of postcards, but to evoke a universal feeling of solitude," De Lassee once said.
Date: through April 30, 8:45am-6pm (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 8:45am-9pm (Tuesday, Thursday), 8:45am-5:30pm (Saturday, Sunday)
Venue: Alliance Francaise of Hangzhou, 198 Jiaogong Rd
Admission: Free
Tel: (0571) 8808-2526
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