Late Night Opening
On the last Friday of every month Chinese Arts Centre will now be open until 8pm, this will next take place on 26th March.
British Chinese Network will be organising a Charity Games Night, all are very welcome, for more information, please email bbcmanchester@gmail.com or visit the facebook group.
Negotiable Values
Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 3rd April 2010
Artists: Conroy/Sanderson, Gordon Cheung, He Chengyao, Rachel Goodyear and Wang Jun
Negotiable Values invites seven artists from the UK and China to create works in response to idea of ethics and moral choices. Developed out of a dialogue with Yan Yan, Director of 501 Arts Space, Chongqing, the exhibition brings together artists’ works which explore the notion of advancement and raises questions about the price of progress.
Negotiable Values takes the internal experience of and international consciousness of China’s development as its starting point. Since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, China has embraced aspects of Western culture but we are also now seeing the influence of China and Asia on the West.
At Chinese Arts Centre we will be presenting a selection of works with the full show being presented when it tours to 501 Arts Space, Chongqing, China in Summer 2010.
Wang Jun
20th January – 23rd April 2010
Open Studio: – 15 – 22nd April
The focus of Wang Jun’s work is the evolving nature of the Chinese as they adapt to dramatic shifts in the social framework. Wang makes works from the perspective of microscopic studies of the minutia of the everyday in an attempt to recover the unique qualities of the Chinese community.
During his Breathe Residency, Wang Jun will visit the homes of Manchester artists. Working in collaboration, he wishes to observe the traits and features of social spaces within the home. He hopes to collate these dialogues into a curatoral project that brings together artists from Manchester and Chongqing, juxtaposing the work from the two cities. The project attempts to discuss the inherited social codes that connect an individual to their own culture and social groupings.
Based at 501 Artspace in Chongqing, Wang Jun is an artist who works across a variety of media. On a daily basis Wang Jun will make paintings, drawings and photographs. The influence of his new environment will resolve into a specifically created installation or performance for the open studio at the end of the residency.
Presented with Support from Visiting Arts and British Council.
Sarah Tse
9th January – 9th May 2010
Sarah Tse’s textural drawings create imaginary dreamscapes by bringing together childhood memories, imagery from her dreams and inspiration from her travels.
She uses pencil to communicate her ideas and to highlight the artist’s hand. Sarah’s drawings suggest a fragility and timelessness. Through them Sarah aims to manipulate the meaning of objects and to change the way the world is interpreted.
For her First Step installation Sarah will create a large wall drawing in response to the space in Chinese Arts Centre alongside which she will show newly created works on paper.
Guanghwa Bookshop
Established in 1971, Guanghwa Company Limited specialises in an extensive range of quality books and magazines from mainland China and Hong Kong, in both English and Chinese. Categories include language learning, martial arts, literature, philosophy, history, herbal medicine, painting and calligraphy etc.
Our store based inside the Chinese Arts Centre is now open to public. Offering a selected range of Chinese art materials and books.
