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Paysage international, 1996, wall painting, 300 x 2000 cm, Le Consortium, Dijon. Photo: André Morin © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2009.

Bit of an update on the ‘798 Biennale’ here.
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The Beijing 798 Biennale will bring the works of more than 70 artists to China’s capital, focusing on video, photography, installation, performance, audio, site-specific works, and other new art forms. Starting with an opening reception on August 15 and running through September 12, 2009, the biennale will assert Beijing’s position as an international art capital.

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UCCA french actress show
An ongoing photo and video portrait exhibition at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces, shows the French actress and jury leader of the 62nd Cannes film festival caught on film by about 100 leading international photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, Nan Goldin, Juergen Teller and Helmut Newton.

“I love all the photos, maybe because I love myself so much,” Huppert jokes. “Every piece is unique. Juergen Teller shot for eight hours, while Bresson could capture five photos in a second.”

Another UCCA show here

Beijing (UCCA) presents Landscape of Childhood, an exhibition by major artist Yan Pei-Ming. Following his Les Funérailles de Monna Lisa’s exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Landscape of Childhood will stand as a surprising show and a first in Yan Pei-Ming’s career, producing a show without canvases, an experimental installation.

Jerome Sans, UCCA Director and co-curator of Landscape of Childhood said: ‘’Yan Pei-Ming has become the ultimate artist, portraying the iconic characters of our time; his work is a major touchstone on the international contemporary art scene and this show should remain a landmark in history since it features the portraits of future icons: the next generation of Chinese citizens framed by an empty landscape, the future ’’.

Huge landscapes painted directly onto UCCA big hall’s walls frame a series of silkscreen flags, representing 34 portraits of new-born babies and children. Imagined as a walk through a “forest” of faces and urban views, the exhibition powerfully conveys Yan Pei-Ming’s intentions and gives the audience an opportunity to discover a vision of our world in a landscape of crisis and beyond.

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Ghost towns around the world

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NZ shows for Chinese artists

Against a backdrop of worldwide economic malaise, Jin Jiangbo presents recent series of photographic works. Begun in 2007 and using titles such as Great Economic Retreat, Chinese Market Scene and Shanghai, Shanghai, his arresting panaromas offer an immediate response to the complex fabric within the unique socialist economic landscape of China as it negotiates within wider frames of globalisation and integration.

The artist says, “My process enters a space of expressionless aesthetic research. Within the long process of history, things and people shuttle though, and as time passes they gradually disappear and are lost, leaving only the buildings and spaces, as ‘witnesses to history’.”

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Birmingham art museum refurbishes Chinese exhibits

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