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The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club Presents:

Art, Media and Stardom – How Western Journalists Helped Make Stars of China’s Artists

Thomas Fuesser

ShanghART Gallery

Friday, October 9th, 6pm – 7.30pm

In 1993, the Dutch curator Hans van Dijk arranged for a group of foreign journalists and photographers to visit up-and-coming members of the then fledgling Beijing art scene. Reports on the visit, by New York Times art critic Andrew Solomon and others, played a major part in making stars of artists such as Fang Lijun, Wang Guangyi and Yue Minjun. Another participant in the trip was photographer Thomas Fuesser, who was commissioned by Stern magazine but whose pictures were never actually published. The current show at ShanghART Gallery, ‘Lost Treasures of Modern China’, features Fuesser’s ‘lost’ pictures of this crucial moment in the development of China’s contemporary art scene, along with paintings and videos by Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai which satirize the role of the western media, and other related works by Shanghai-based artists Chris Gill and Andy Hall. In this special event, Thomas Fuesser will give an introduction to the exhibition and discuss the influence of the foreign media on the Chinese art world over the past two decades.

Venue details: ShanghART Gallery, 796 Huaihai Zhong Lu (just west of Ruijin Lu), Tel 3395 0808

Admission: Free. Refreshments will be provided.

NB: The talk will start promptly at 6.30. Please RSVP to jane@shanghartgallery.com by Wednesday 7th October. (Please do not reply to the FCC address)

Thanks to Chris Gill and ShanghART Gallery for their help in organizing this event.

About the Speaker:

Thomas Fuesser was born 1960 in Essen, Germany, where he studied communication and design, before becoming a professional designer and photographer working with magazines, advertising and arts. He has produced several major series of portraits of figures in the art, cinema and cultural worlds, including an acclaimed series of 85 black and white images of world-famous stage performers. Now based in Shanghai, he has participated in many international exhibitions.