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China Institute's DVDs on contemporary Chinese art are growing with a series on art salons, short courses and symposia. These DVDs offer the general public, collectors, enthusiasts, experts in the field, and professors of art and art history an opportunity to hear from artists, art historians, critics and curators.
Sales tax charged on all purchases mailed within New York state. Domestic orders are shipped via UPS Ground for $6 the first DVD and $2 each additional DVD. International shipping charges vary, to place an order or for more information please email lchrysostome@chinainstitute.org, or call 212-744-8181 ext. 111.
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Art Salon: Ai Weiwei Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution |
 AI Weiwei. Grapes, 2008. Wooden Stools, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 79 x 137 x 160 cm. Private Collection. |
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Art Salon: Chen Qiulin
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art
Chen Qiulin (1975-) Chen Qiulin’s performances in post-industrial spaces among steel, rubble, rivers, and factories bridge aspects of traditional Chinese culture with a dramatic, personal approach to the changing Chinese landscape. Childhood memories of her hometown Wanzhou, a typical Yangzi River town flooded as a result of the Three Gorges Dam project, are documented in 3 short films, in photographs and in installations. Also addressed throughout her work are issues of modernization and the complexity of emotions felt by women in contemporary society. Since graduating from the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy in 2000, she has participated in important exhibitions such as The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art in Beijing and the Albright-Knox Museum, and This is Not For You: Sculptural Discourses at Thyssen Bornemisza in Vienna. In 2006, Ms. Chen was awarded a 6-month grant from the Asian Cultural Council to work in the United States. DVD contains an English and Mandarin version (1:03:00 mins). 2007.
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CHEN Qiulin. Ellisis’s Series No. 2 Photograph. Still from a performance, 2001. Wanzhou, China. Courtesy of the artist and Max Protetch
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Art Salon: Hong Lei
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art Hong Lei (1960-) In conversation with Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography, New York.
DVD contains an English and Mandarin version (1:15:00 mins), and English version (36:45 mins). 2009.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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HONG Lei. Autumn in the Forbidden City (East Veranda). 1997. Color photograph. 50 x 60 cm. Courtesy Chambers Fine Art.
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Art Salon: Lin Yilin
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art Lin Yilin (1964-) DVD contains an English and Mandarin version (1:36:00 mins), and English version (55:25 mins). 2009.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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LIN Yilin. Basic Content, 2002 (installation). Brick, sand, and golden paper. 550 x 600 x 210 cm.
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Art Salon: Song Dong
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art Song Dong (1966-) In conversation with Sarah J.S. Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
DVD contains an English and Mandarin version (1:02:57 mins), and English version (39:07 mins). 2009.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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 SONG Dong. Waste Not, 2005. Installation view at BTAP, Beijing.
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Art Salon: Qiu Zhijie
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art Qiu Zhijie(1969-) In conversation with Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
(55:44 mins). 2009.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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 QIU Zhijie. Longing, 2005. Edition of 8. Color photograph. 120 x 120 cm. Courtesy Chambers Fine Art.
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Art Salon: Sun Xun
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art Sun Xun (1980-) In conversation with Bérénice Reynaud, co-curator of the film and video series at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in Los Angeles and lecturer of film history, theory and criticism in the School of Critical Studies and the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts.
DVD contains an English and Mandarin version (1:05:35 mins), and English version (50:30 mins). 2010.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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 SUN Xun. Still from Shock of TIme, Courtesy of Max Protetch, New York.
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Art Salon: Censorship of the Visual Arts in China
The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art
Despite the history of repression of the visual arts in China, censorship has substantially subsided in the past decade. Despite sporadic incidents- most recently, the cancellation of Zhang Huan’s exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum- contemporary art has been allowed, by and large, to flourish. How does China’s oversight of contemporary art operate in today’s context? How does it compare to the situation of artists in the US?
(1:10:00 mins). 2008. Barbara Pollack is an art critic currently writing a book on the contemporary art scene in China and is the author of an article on censorship in China in the September 2008 issue of Modern Painters.
Zhang Hongtu is a Chinese artist living in New York whose painting was recently censored in China.
Colin Chinnery is an artist living in Beijing and the former chief curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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QIU Zhijie. Tattoo II, 1994. Chromogenic print.
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Art Salon: Chinese artists in new york A focus on three accomplished Chinese artists who have been living in New York for over a decade and who work between the U.S. and Asia. They draw inspiration from both traditional and contemporary Chinese sources, as well as from the influences of life in New York and the international art world. An exploration of how they differ from post 1989 Mainland Chinese artists and how their training, education, ideas, inspirations, and sense of identity shape their art.
Jenny Chen has absorbed much of Chinese traditional ink painting history into her own paintings and uses acrylic paint to create meditative abstract works. Most recently, she has been creating landscape paintings beyond normal canvas format on large marble shapes which are suspended.
Lin Yan uses the traditional Chinese painting materials of paper and ink as the foundation of her works while the crumbled layers of soft handmade papers create a paradoxical effect of a strong, post-industrial feeling.
Jian-Jun Zhang combines the cultural images of Asia and the West. Trained as an oil-painter in Shanghai, he has created a significant body of conceptual works which encompasses a multimedia approach, using photography, painting, sculpture, installation and video perfornamces.
Moderated by Xiaoming Zhang, Senior Specialist of contemporary art at China Guardian Auctions, and formerly Vice President/Worldwide Senior Specialist, and Head of the Department of Chinese Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s. She lectures frequently on contemporary Chinese art in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
(1:12:35 mins). 2009.
Sale Price: $10 member / $20 non-member / $55 institution
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Left to Right: Jenny CHEN, Prediction of a Stain. 2008. Metal wire and resin. 244 x 122 x 853 cm.
Jian-Jun ZHANG. China Chapter Series. 2008. Silicone Rubber. 40 x 28 x 28 cm.
LIN Yan. Brick by Brick. 2008. Chinese Paper, ink and plexi-glass. 91 x 152 x 20 cm.
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Short Course: Contemporary Chinese Art Part 1
Includes a history of contemporary Chinese art, an introduction to artists Xu Bing, Yang Jiecang, Qiu Zhijie, and Hong Hao, and a discussion about the transition from being an underground art scene in the 1980s-1990s to becoming recognized by the Chinese government. Taught by Philip Tinari. 3 disk set (3:47:59 mins). 2007. |
 WANG Guangyi. Great Criticism: Coco-cola, 1993. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 200 x 200 cm. Private Collection.
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Short Course: Contemporary Chinese Art Part 2
Presents the development of contemporary art in China during the first fifteen (1978-1992) years of its emergence. Each session focuses on a five-year period and on a number of specific movements and moments during each period with an eye to telling the story of how contemporary art emerged and evolved during this critical period in China. Taught by Philip Tinari. 3 disk set (3:18:57 mins). 2008. Sale Price: $15 member / $25 non-member / $110 institution
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Photograph of Burning performance by the Xiamen Dada group (led by Huang Yong Ping) on November 23, 1986 in Xiamen, China.
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Symposium: Shu Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art World renowned art historians Wu Hung, Philip K. Hu, Betti-Sue Hertz, Robert E. Harrist, Jr., and Wen C. Fong discuss how contemporary artists draw inspiration from a traditional theme and create new works that resonate with contemporary audiences, both Chinese and Western. Also includes a bi-lingual discussion with artist Xu Bing. 3 disk set (5:04:20 mins). 2007. Sale Price: $15 member / $25 non-member / $110 institution
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LIU Dan. Dictionary, 2001. Watercolor. 213 x 304 cm. Courtesy of HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
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