That's Shanghai takes a look at the best art exhibits on this weekend:
Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective
Image courtesy of artist and gallery
Opening this weekend, Yuz Museum in Xuhui presents significant works by one of the masters of Chinese abstract art, Tan Ping. Known for his ebullient printmaking and painting, Tan Ping present narratives within his abstract works, and has established his own idea of the form of the loosely held together form of abstraction. Over 40 prints, paintings, videos and on-site paintings will be present, bringing live to Tan Ping’s 35 years as an artist. The gallery will eschew chronological order in favor of ideas, linking artworks together in terms of cognitive relativity rather than the somewhat arbitrary connectivity that time offers us.
Until Sep 22, Yuz Museum.
Healthier, Simpler, Wiser – Group Exhibition
Image via Edouard Malingue Gallery
Also opening this weekend, Healthier, Simpler, Wiser brings together a trio of mid-career artists from the Southeast of China – Hu Xiangqian from Guangdong, Lai Chih-Sheng from Taipei and Kwan Sheung Chi from Hong Kong. Each of the artists will display one new work commissioned by the gallery, as well as a selection of recent works. Hu Xiangqian will strain against his nomadic lifestyle, building a house-like structure within the gallery, Lai Chih-Sheng will re-arrange the gallery’s rainpipes so that they converge in the center of the gallery, while Kwan Sheung Chi will put his ‘business’ trip in focus by partaking in an imaginary business trip in the city. Strange and intriguing stuff.
Until June 30, Edouard Malingue Gallery.
Claude Monet New Impressionistic – The Track of Time Art Exhibition 3.0
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This exhibition offers art lovers an extraordinary opportunity to be close to one of the greatest painters’ works in a modern, immersive way. Based on its original content and utilizing a host of different technologies, the exhibition combines some of the latest techniques such as 3D mapping, intelligent interactive devices and installation art to create an immersive art exhibition experience. This exhibition has set up a special zone with cooperative copies authorized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and also includes a cooperation with a top international shadow design team to create a 5D shadow exhibition for its audiences. It also includes a small Monet exhibition for children.
Until Jun 30, Jing’an Sculpture Park. Tickets.
The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi
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This excellent exhibition brings together three formative figures in modern and contemporary art: French Yven Klein, South Korean Lee Ufan and Shanghainese Ding Yi. Under the guise of the "avant garde" it attempts to form a new, global narrative for the genre while showing an impressive range of work from all over the world. All three artists engage with ideas of minimalism through different representations in a grouping that we are actively and eagerly anticipating.
Until Jul 28, Power Station of Art.
Summer of Love – Group Exhibition
Image courtesy of Shanghai Center of Photography
Opening this weekend, Shanghai Center of Photography in Xuhui present works by four very talented photographers and a guest curator, who seek to understand how love and romance has transformed in China over the preceding decades. The varying narratives of love here explored take in the material aspects of China’s wedding industry, discreet expressions of love in a bygone era, as well as a focused project by photographer Coco Dai, whose work explores one particular female subject to present the realities of contemporary womanhood.
Until Aug 19; RMB30 students, RMB40 door. Shanghai Center of Photography.
Wild State – Chen Duxi Solo Exhibition
Image courtesy of the promotor
Closing this weekend, grab your last chance to catch this exhibition this weekend. Taking inspiration from the practice of mountaineering, which has been a personal hobby of Chen Duxi’s for some time now, the artist presents this solo exhibition which will feature nine pieces made with mineral pigment on silk, attempting to convey the larger questions and ideas that his outdoor exploits and his experiences in nature have given rise to.
Until Jun 16, Gallery 55.
[Cover image courtesy of artist and gallery]
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