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Heavy sleepers
Zhao Liang’s work
…a dorm filled with sleeping workers. They lie side-by-side sleeping fully clothed among the detritus of their everyday existance. These are workers brought in to help with Beijing’s building boom. Hard hats, eating utensils, and water bottles lie strewn about the rough wooden pallets where the exhausted men slump against dirty cushions. Are they heavy with sleep or heavy with responsibility?

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How China is using art and artists to sell itself to the world

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Chinese art stars -visual arts chic..ooh lala

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Hot money auctions

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China’s treasure hunting teams

Bear in mind there has been some confusion of late- one team is from Yuanminyuan management office, not to be confused with the serious team, from State Administration of Cultural Relics, who I think have yet to start their activities.

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Global Times looks at the latest e art in Beijing

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PRESSER:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SILENT VOICES: Ink Paintings by Xu Lei “秘响”—— 徐累新作展

12 JANUARY 2010 – 12 FEBRUARY 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: TUESDAY, 12 JANUARY 2010, 6–8 PM

JOAN B. MIRVISS LTD
39 East 78th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10075

Fading Memories (2009) Chinese ink & mineral pigment on paper, 65 x 45 cm
NEW YORK, 16 DECEMBER 2009 — Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art, New York, and RedBox Studio, Beijing are pleased to present the first solo gallery exhibition in the United States by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Lei. Exhibited at Joan B Mirviss, New York, Silent Voices will present 12 new large scale paintings rendered entirely in ink.

Xu Lei (b. 1963) combines traditional Chinese ink and brush techniques with the spirit of Western surrealism, resulting in mysterious works displaying a lush color palette. Rich with wit, irony and a subtle coded eroticism, his paintings gradually reveal veiled themes through artfully encoded imagery. Stories without endings, Xu Lei’s paintings are the work of a unique artist steeped in China’s cultural past and engaged in its dynamic present.

His works have been featured in international exhibitions including the watershed China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in 1998, and 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Civilization, which toured to the Guggenheim Museum New York in 1998, and Bilbao in 2000. In 2008 he had a solo exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He will be included in a major upcoming exhibition of contemporary Chinese paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His work is included in the permanent collections of major museums in China and abroad.

Xu Lei was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Nanjing Arts Institute. He is currently a scholar at the China Art Research Institute and Art Director of Classics published by the Today Art Museum in Beijing.

A full color catalogue is available with an introduction by Jeffrey Hantover.

: MEE-SEEN LOONG FINE ART

Mee-Seen Loong is an established expert in Chinese works of art with 30 years of experience in the art market. Prior to the establishment of her independent practice she was Senior Vice President, Head of International Asian Business Development and Client Services and Senior Specialist in the Chinese Works of Art Department at Sotheby’s New York. In addition to her independent artist representation practice she provides art advisory services to individual collectors, institutions and corporations internationally.

She has worked with many of the premier collections of Chinese art to appear at auction in recent history including those of J.M. Hu, the J.T. Tai Foundation, T.Y. Chao, Paul and Helen Bernat, The British Rail Pension Fund, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, the Estate of Laurance Rockefeller and the Sackler Collection. She has advised on exhibitions at museums and galleries in Asia and North America.

www.meeseenloongfineart.com

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