One month visiting professorship at
China Academy of Arts in
Hangzhou. I was giving lessons at the CDK (Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie) Department of Oil Painting (油畫系).
Encounter of different cultures, mentalities, as well as approaches to the art. The experience to remember!
During my stay, we organized closing
exhibition of the first year's master students in the Moca Westlake Gallery.
The final exhibition of the
first year Master’s students of the Chinese-German Academy of Art (CDK) shows different artistic positions. The
special orientation of the CDK allows students an exciting interplay between the traditional and Western art, culture and the mindset. As
a result, there is a new, “a third position", which is full of
opportunities. This
exhibition displays artistic positions of the twelve students who are in the search
of their own visual language.
On the one hand, we see a
development of the painterly possibilities which are coming out of figuration,
as well as lyrical abstract approaches on the other hand.
In the discourse of culturally different spatial and conceptual models, as well
as different pictorial traditions, here are appearing interesting approaches to
work for the students. The
exhibition enables young artists an overview of the accomplishments in the
first Academic year and is a further step towards professionalization and
self-reflection.
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| Introduction in Chinese and German |
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Artists: Cao Yu, Guo Runi, Guo Xiaojing, Han Jin, Li Fengrui, Liang Xiao, Peng Junyi, Pan Xiaoqian, Pei Yu, Sun Yuxiu, Shu Ye, Yu Qiushi
Academic Host: Burkhard Held, Tijana Titin
Art Director: Tong Yanrunan
Curator: Tijana Titin
Assistants: Peng Junyi, Yu Qiushi
Exhibition 25.4- 3.5.2014 Moca Westlake Gallery, Hangzhou
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| Guo Xiaojing |
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| Liang Xiao (left) and Shu Ye (right) |
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| Pan Xiaoqian |
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| Works by Li Fengrui |
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| Work by Pei YU |
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| The first year's master students in front of works by Yu Qiushi |
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| Gallery entrance and the work by Sun Yuxiu |
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