15 January – 5 May 2009
Wen Wu turns the gaze of her ancient Greek male homosexual alter ego onto emo boys for her First Step exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre. Continue reading ‘Wen Wu – First Step’
Archive for December, 2008
29 January – 30 April 2009
Breathe Artist-in-Residence Christine Wong Yap, a multi-disciplinary visual artist from San Francisco, California, will open her studio to the public from April 23 – 30, 2009, with a public preview on Thursday, 23 April, 5.30-7.30 pm. Continue reading ‘Christine Wong Yap’
12 – 26 January 2009
Pei Yuan Jiang is a painter interested in the notion of reproduction in art. Pei looks at the line between an original work and the reproduction and the possible implications on the image’s meaning that reproduction has. It is the reproduction of an image that is often most viewed but meaning shifts according to size, context and use. Using pencil on paper, Pei re-creates reproductions of historical famous artworks to explore the space between the original and reproduction and create a new dialogue with the past. Continue reading ‘Pei Yuan Jiang – Whisper’
Vital, International live artists of Chinese descent, 2007
Book launch
22 January 2009
5.30 – 7.30pm
Chinese Arts Centre welcomes you to the book launch of Vital, International live artists of Chinese descent on the 22nd January from 5.30 – 7.30pm. Continue reading ‘Vital – Book Launch’
Eric Fong, Shanghai Remedies: Portraits, Mr Hu, 2006
23 January – 5 April 2009
Preview Thursday 22 January 5.30 – 7.30pm
Artist Talk 5.30 – 6pm
Eric Fong is a London-based visual artist working in video and photography whose art practice is informed by his former profession as a medical doctor. His work sensitively explores individual experiences of health and the body as well as examining different medical approaches and wider social attitudes. Fong works closely with people of diverse ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds, adopting a sympathetic yet objective perspective. From these encounters Fong creates video and photography works that seek to open up a dialogue about the way we perceive and treat issues related to the body, medicine and disability.
For Seeing Beyond Fong has been working with visually impaired art enthusiasts from Henshaws Society for Blind People to create a video work exploring their perceptual experience when visiting an art exhibition.
Alongside this major new work, Fong also shows a series of photography and video developed in China. Shanghai Remedies is a series of personal portraits and home medicine collections exploring changing attitudes to health, medicine and the body in China today.
