| 25 Years at the Forefront of Chinese Contemporary Art |
ETHAN COHEN
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts |
Wednesday, September 26
at 6:30pm |
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Ethan Cohen Fine Arts was established in 1987 as the first gallery in the United States to specialize in Chinese Contemporary art. Over the years, Mr. Cohen has organized groundbreaking exhibitions, provided advisory expertise to numerous collectors and corporate clients, and worked closely with notable scholars developing the field of Chinese Contemporary Art. His long list of acclaimed exhibitions includes Chinese Maximilism, curated by Gao Minglu and organized by The Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, and the University of Buffalo Art Galleries; The Chinese Art Invasion at Art Basel Miami; and Making China: Cultural Implosion, curated by Huang Du and Bingyi. Earlier this year, Mr. Cohen was a co-curator of the show, We Are Your Future: Russia, Latin America, and China, a featured art exhibition of the Second Moscow Biennale 2007. In his presentation, Mr. Cohen will examine works by a number of leading Chinese Contemporary Artists today and discuss their place in the Contemporary Art world.
http://www.ecfa.com
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| Contextualizing Contemporary Art
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FRANCE PEPPER
Director of Arts and Culture Programs, China Institute
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Wednesday, October 10
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| As the market for Contemporary Chinese Art continues to grow, so does the need to develop a scholarly field for this art. Art institutions can play a pivotal and central role in establishing a standard for scholarship. China Institute is leading the initiative with programs and exhibitions for the general public, which make the art relevant to a Western audience. By contextualizing Contemporary Chinese Art as a bridge between traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, the foundation for a deeper appreciation is taking shape. By situating Chinese art alongside Western art rather than as derivative of Western art, a more accurate reading of contemporary Chinese art will result. By creating an environment with access to artists, art historians, critics and journalists, the audience becomes part of the development of this new, dynamic field. France Pepper is the Director of Arts and Culture Programs at China Institute. She lectures frequently on Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in China.
http://www.chinainstitute.org
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Yue Minjun, Garbage Dump, 2005-2006, Installation; acrylic on reinforced fiberglass, old books, 6 items and books: 50 x 70 x 80 cm. Collection of the artist |
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| Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China |
MELISSA CHIU
Director,
Asia Society Museum |
Thursday, November 15
at 6:30pm |
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| Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China by Melissa Chiu is the first book to focus on China's artistic diaspora and to differentiate it from the artistic community inside China. It assembles the work of 14 artists who emigrated in the lead-up to the 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square. Now settled in New York, Paris and Sydney, these artists have become leading international figures, with showings at Tate Modern in London and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Breakout features in-depth analyses of this group's work, much of it based on interviews with the artists. Melissa Chiu is a leading authority on Asian contemporary art. She was until recently the Asia Society's Curator for Contemporary Asian and Asian-American Art; she is now its Museum Director. A Getty Curatorial Research Fellow, Chiu has organized more than 30 exhibitions, published widely in journals, magazines and catalogues, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.
http://www.asiasociety.org
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