"This is a catalogue from the first Spanish exhibition of the Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei (China, 1957). This artist via photography, sculpture, architecture, installations and his blog has become an obligatory reference for other artists and particularly for contemporary Chinese art. The exhibition, Ways Beyond Art, shows legendary works such as "Bubbles", "The Wave" and "The Coca-cola Vase". Each piece has been produced from the kilns wh ..."
"New and previously unseen works by Ai Weiwei: a special issue of Cahiers d'ArtThis new edition of the Cahiers d’Art Revue was published to accompany Ai Weiwei’s (born 1957) 2019 exhibition at the Galerie Cahiers d’Art on rue du Dragon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The issue features a series of unpublished works on paper made from rust, documentation of Ai Weiwei's gigantic Amazon rain-forest project, a long interview with the artist by Ha ..."
"The Contemporary Chinese Art Awards (CCAA) are intended both to enhance public awareness of what Chinese artists contribute to contemporary culture and to encourage the development of the country's most promising talent. This compendium includes work by and interviews with awardees such as Xu Zhen, who took the overall CCAA Prize for Excellence, Gu Dexin, the CCAA Achievement Prize winner, and Song Tao, winner of the Young Artist Prize. ..."
"...since the last revolution of the arts at the end of the 60s, there has been no subversive art; good artists, yes, but the subcutaneous rebelliousness has disappeared in the west, and that explains my interest in China. Whether work is traditionally painted or sculptured, whether painting is undermined by rolloing picture scrolls or by videos, subversiveness is always part of the message. This may be explained by the context: artists ..."
"Shanshui The Chinese ideogram for landscape--"shanshui"--is a compound of the symbols for mountain and water. Even in contemporary Chinese art, which seems so dominated by the figure, there are numerous references to these elements. This publication explores the aesthetic arc from historical shanshui paintings to the art of today."
"A special limited edition featuring a signed and numbered print by Ai WeiweiThis limited edition of the issue of Cahiers d’Art Revue devoted to Ai Weiwei, and published to accompany his 2019 exhibition at Galerie Cahiers d’Art, is housed in a blue cloth presentation box containing a print of Brain Inflation (2009), numbered and signed by the artist. Limited edition of 175 copies."
"Der 1964 in Beijing geborene Künstler Shao Fan nimmt in der zeitgenössischen chinesischen Malerei eine besondere Stellung ein. Shao Fan befasst sich maltechnisch mit der klassischen Tuschezeichnung, die er durch seine besondere Art der motivischen Verdichtung und Konzentration zu einer neuen Sprache ausprägt. Die Protagonisten seiner monumentalen Gemälde sind Tiere. Ob Affen, Hasen oder Pferde, sie werden bei ihm weniger als Abbild ihre ..."
"Secret Signs, an extensive group exhibition catalog, looks at the role of Chinese calligraphy in relation to contemporary Chinese art over the past three decades as a way of asking fundamental questions of art and art making in China today. In 1956 Mao ordered the radical simplification of the ancient complex calligraphic writing system used by the court by standardizing the characters and their sounds, reducing their form and number, c ..."
"·Offers a comprehensive overview of the Chinese art and cultural scene ·Presents personalities and positions from all fields of contemporary art, ranging from painting, photography and drawing, as well as sculpture, installation and performance ·Includes the role played by the new Chinese architecture, selected buildings and projects are presented here as unique and independent cultural accomplishments Crossing China introduces the hig ..."
"For the collector of contemporary art, the acquisition of new work is an aesthetic and intellectual adventure that records a personal journey and cuts a unique cross-section through the culture. Consequently every collector has a different story to tell about art and the art market today. The world of the collector overlaps with that of the artist but is also a realm of stratospheric prices, occasional plunges in value and gestures of b ..."
"The exhibition Right Is Wrong featured significant works by important artists and a contemporary Chinese art history. It covered more than 80 works from one of the world's finest collections of Chinese Contemporary Art: M + Sigg Collection from M +, the vast museum of visual culture that is built in Hong Kong and scheduled to open late 2017. In this richly illustrated exhibition catalogue, curator Pi Li presents an art historical ov ..."
"Utställningen Right is Wrong presenterade centrala verk av betydande konstnärer och en nutida kinesisk konsthistoria. Den omfattade drygt 80 verk ur en av världens främsta samlingar av kinesisk samtidskonst: M+ Sigg Collection från M+, det stora museum för visuell kultur som byggs i Hongkong för att öppnas i slutet av 2017. I den rikt illustrerade utställningskatalogen ger kurator Pi Li en konsthistorisk översikt av den kinesiska samtid ..."
"Klappentext:China boomt. Nach der wirtschaftlichen Liberalisierung ist auch die Kunstszene des Landes geradezu explodiert. Der Schweizer Sammler Uli Sigg, ehemaliger Botschafter in Peking, hat die rasante Entwicklung seit den 1980er Jahren begleitet und besitzt mit mehr als 1 200 Arbeiten von über 80 Künstlern mittlerweile die weltweit größte Sammlung zeitgenössischer chinesischer Kunst. Das prachtvolle Buch zeigt über 200 von Siggs Gem ..."
"China is booming! In the wake of economic liberalization, the nation's art scene has taken flight as well. The Swiss collector Uli Sigg, formerly his country's ambassador to Beijing, has followed the rapid pace of development since the 1980s, compiling along the way the world's largest collection of contemporary Chinese art, comprising more than 1,200 works by some 180 artists. Mahjong, named after the popular and ancient Chinese game o ..."
Mahjong(1st Edition) chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, 13. Juni - 16. Oktober 2005, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 14. September 2006 - 18. Februar 2007 ; im Rahmen der: China Time 2006, 13.09. - 01.10., Hamburg]. Hrsg. von Bernhard Fibicher und Matthias Frehner. Mit Textbeiträgen von Ai Weiwei . und Werknotizen von Nataline Colonnello . [Kunstmuseum Bern . Übersetzt: Egbert Baqué .], by Bernhard Fibicher, Matthias Frehner, Weiwei Ai, UliSigg Hardcover, 357 Pages, Published 2005 by Hamburger Kunsthalle ISBN-13: 978-3-938002-18-6, ISBN: 3-938002-18-2