3，100 Years in 1 Minute－－Hu Jieming solo exhibition
Opening: October 22, 2010, Friday 18:00
Exhibition dates: October 23 to November 23, 2010
Venue: ShanghArt Gallery
Bldg 16, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
in Chinese: 上海 香格纳画廊 (莫干山路50号16号楼)
Curator: Li Zhenhua

In this realm, time becomes space. – Richard Wagner, Pasifal

Man collects art, while art collects history. It’s the cultural game for thousands years. Now Hu Jieming will bring you into a special dimension consisting of fine art, where the time and space will be deconstructed.

This October, ShanghART Gallery will launch the new project of Hu Jieming, known as 100 Years in 1 Minute. This huge installation consists of 1100 1-minute-videos, which are stored and displayed in thousands of storage bags, and each piece is a deconstruction of some master piece of modern times. When audience stands before this crazy, noisy and joking animation world, they will face a unprecedent impact.

Hu Jieming compressed 100 years into 1100 artworks – as the metonym of human civilization and history in this period. Therefore, deconstruct art is to deconstruct the world we know. But these kind of devastating deconstructions do not lead to historical criticism. In artist’s opinion, they are just experiments: “like we degrade some common thing into some unknown objects in laboratory, we try to test the possibilities and consequences of combining visual culture memories of 100 years in 1 minute randomly.”

When an artwork is surrounded by time and space, or history and system, its original status will be changed slowly. Artworks are not invariable, on the contrary, they will get distorted, changeful and older. The only unchanging thing is that everything will change. Sometime the more we destroy artworks, the further we abandon violence, and we’ll find the essential of art closer.

ShanghART Gallery invites you to participate in this exhibition, then you can walk into its time-space wormhole from 1 minute to 100 years.

The exhibition will open on Oct.22, and last a month.

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4，Place · Time · Play:India-China Contemporary Art Exhibition
Opening: October 22, 2010, Friday 17:00
Exhibition dates: October 23 to December 20, 2010
Venue: East Ocean Center
600 Yan an East road and 218 Nanjing west word
in Chinese: 上海 黄浦区 南京西路218号永新广场一层大堂；延安东路600号东海商业中心一层大堂
Commissioner and Academic Director: Chang Tsong-zung
Exhibition Curator: Chaitanya Sambrani
Presented by: Institute of Visual Culture (China Academy of Art), Shanghai International Culture Association
Co-presented by: Hanart TZ Gallery, Moonchu Foundation
Supported by: Verdant Foundation, Pinnacle Group Co., Ltd, World Culture Organization, David Tang, Enrico Navarra
Seaneographer: Bu Bing

This project invites artists from India and China to consider the role of play in contemporary life. Artists are invited to participate in residencies and exhibitions in the two countries during 2010-11. The invitation to play is extended on the premise that idea of play (and the ludic instinct that underpins it) is a fundamentally life-affirming gesture, too often lost in the midst of the quest for topical issues that the art object must address. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have perhaps played the dominant role in governing cultural encounters to date. Through its invitation to indulge in a basic and universal human activity (and need), the project hopes to inaugurate a more lasting series of relationships between artist communities across the two nations. more

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5，Sun Xun <21 gr>

Opening: October 21, 2010
Exhibition dates: October 22 to December 19, 2010, 10:00 am to 9:00 pm
Venue: Minsheng Art Museum
in Chinese：淮海西路570号F座民生现代美术馆

21 KE is a movie discussing about self-existence. We always question life, achieve value or meaning of life, keep looking for different referencing system to define self-existence; however, the world may not be like what we cognize, it could be a complicated mixture of multivariate and multiple systems which coexist and parallel. When we are trying to care, ultimately, we will realize that we are at the most marginal place of the world; we stand on the cliff, and we are always embarrassed. We are on the way to find the truth, we can feel its existence, but can never get close to it. The world is round; our life is like pi; but our continuous approaches turn to be endless cycles.

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6，Qin Qi's solo exhibition - Chairs can save lives

Curator: Guo Xiaoyan
Artist: Qin Qi
Opening 2010-10-21 17：00
Exhibition dates: 2010-10-22 to 2010-12-19
Venue: Minsheng Museum of Art 民生现代美术馆
Address: Bldg F, 570 Huaihai west road
in Chinese: 上海淮海西路570号F座
Contact +86 21 6282 8729
yuxiaoqin7@gmail.com
www.minshengart.org

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7，"Useful Life" Yang Zhenzhong, Yang Fudong, MadeIn
Opening：September 5, 2010
Exhibition dates: September 6 to November 5, 2010
Venue: ShanghArt Gallery - H Space
Bldg 18, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
in Chinese：香格纳画廊H空间，莫干山路50号18号楼
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8，Wang Jinsong's solo exhibition － Riddles
Opening: October 22, 2010
Exhibition dates: October 23 to November 23, 2010
Tangram art center
2/F, Bldg 17, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
in Chinese：上海7艺术中心，莫干山路50号17号楼2楼

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9, Get It Louder - Sharism



Opening: October 22, 2010, Friday 11:00
Exhibition dates: October 23 to November 7, 2010
Venue: 800 Show Creative Industry Park
in Chinese: 上海 八百秀创意园

Sharism: A Mind Revolution
By Isaac Mao

With the People of the World Wide Web communicating more fully and freely in Social Media while rallying a Web 2.0 content boom, the inner dynamics of such a creative explosion must be studied more closely. What motivates those who join this movement and what future will they create? A key fact is that a superabundance of community respect and social capital are being accumulated by those who share. The key motivator of Social Media and the core spirit of Web 2.0 is a mind switch called Sharism. Sharism suggests a re-orientation of personal values. We see it in User Generated Content. It is the pledge of Creative Commons. It is in the plans of future-oriented cultural initiatives. Sharism is also a mental practice that anyone can try, a social-psychological attitude to transform a wide and isolated world into a super-smart Social Brain.

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10，Moleskine Detour

Opening: October 21, 2010, Thursday - ON INVITATION ONLY
Exhibition dates: October 21st - November 20th
Venue: Bund18, 18 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road
in Chinese: 上海 黄浦区 中山东一路18号外滩18号

A travelling exhibition of Moleskine notebooks donated by international authors. New Chinese authors are joining in Shanghai at Bund18, October 21th - November 20th, 2010.

Detour is an international cultural project featuring notebooks created by world famous artists, architects, film directors, graphic designers, illustrators, and writers. Curated by Raffaella Guidobono this unique travelling exhibition has already taken place in London (2006), New York (2007), Paris (Spring 2008), Berlin (Fall 2008), Istanbul (Spring 2009), Tokyo (Fall 2009). Detour has just gone through its last step in OVenice (August 2010) for the Architecture Biennale before its current destination: Shanghai, in October 2010.

24 internationally renowned Chinese authors, coming from several backgrounds supported Detour Shanghai with enthusiasm and passion, taking part to the show together with 26 international authors from previous Detour cities such as Ron Arad, Sigur Ros, the Campana Brothers, Giuseppe Amato, Giorgio Vigna, Giovanni Sollima, Karim Said, Tord Boontje. Among the Chinese authors: the film directors Jia Zhangke and Zhang Yuan, the fashion designer Joseph Li, the photographer Wang Xiaohui, the writer Han Han, the designer Alan Chan, the musician MCYan, the artist Ou Ning as well as many others. All Detour authors donated their notebooks to the project, supporting the lettera27 Foundation and the Ailing Foundation, both involved in cultural projects for the promotion of literacy, education, art and knowledge.

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11，Curators as photographers

CURATORS AS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Artists: Alain Jullien, Gu Zheng
Curators: Alain Jullien, Gu Zheng
Opening: 18:00 - 20:00 / 17.10.2010
Duration: 10:00 - 18:00 / 18.10.2010 - 03.12.2010
Address: OFOTO Gallery. 2F, Building 13, 50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai, China. ……
in Chinese：全摄影画廊，莫干山路50号13幢2楼

Suspensions of disbelief



Curator: Raul Zamudio
Artist:
Adolfo Doring (New York )
Antonis Donef (Athens)
Eric Yahnker (Los Angeles)
Ferran Martin (New York)
Kiki Seror (San Francisco)
Matthew Weinstein (New York)
Miguel Rodriguez Sepulveda (Mexico)
Mookie Tenembaum (Buenos Aires)
Stefano Cagol (Rome)
Stuart Croft(London)
Sun Yao (Sahnghai)
Teemü Maki (Helsinki)
Tomas Ochoa (Zurich)
Wim Delvoye (Ghent)
Zhou Wendou (Beijing)
Opening Reception: 6-8 PM. 2010.10.24
Duration: Oct 24th – Nov 28th
Venue: Other Gallery l Shanghai Space 101. Biuld 9. M50 Art Zone Shanghai
上海市莫干山路50号9号楼101

Other Gallery is pleased to announce Suspensions of Disbelief, an exhibition of international artist that work in diverse media including photography, video, sculpture, works on paper, and performance. Like the 2010 Shanghai Biennial’s theme of Rehearsal that refers to preparation before a performance, Suspensions of Disbelief is associated with theater, film, and the dramatic arts in general.

Summit of the Six

Organizers: Vanguard Gallery, Zeit-foto Salon
Artists: Akiko Tobu
Asako Narahashi
Gao Mingyan
Liu Fei
Makiko Koie
Makiko Tanaka
Duration: Oct.16th till Nov.14th 2010
Opening: 4-7pm Oct. 21st 2010
Contact: +86 21 6299 3523
vanguardg@gmail.com
www.vanguardgallery.com

Vanguard Gallery
上海 莫干山路50号4A-204 (200060)
A204, Bldg.4, 50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai 200060


There are 6 artists gathering at Vanguard Gallery from Tokyo and Shanghai.

They all differ in concepts, means of expressions and styles but they are all asking a question "what is an art?"

Their ways vary just like the real world has many senses of values. Seeking how to express themselves, these artists keep on gazing the contemporary society so close that they create something utterly new.

Koie's photogoraphs are always shot with her aesthetics. It is just not an ordinary one but has her own new movement within.

The photos of “trees” were exhibited at the Ohara Museum of Art where they were praised equally great to some famous 19th and 20th paintings.

Narahashi has shot photos with the lens half dipped into the water of seas and lakes. Including very original view point, they are highly praised world widely.

In the plain style of snap shots, we can see how sharp Tobu's sense is regarding the angles, objects and compositions.

Tanaka, the oil painter is in pursuit of the very life of her productions, a human in a space by painting fantasies.

The social issues Gao Mingyan concerns will not change even with the geographical and cultural differences. reveals the indifference among the people nowadays.

Liu Fei questions the value system of contemporary Chinese art. And he also focuses on other values in the fast growing China of today and the misunderstandings between the east and the west. As an artist, Liu Fei is bold and skilled in using of various materials and playful visual language.

This exhibition will be on view through Oct.16th till Nov.14th.

We request the honor of your presence at the opening on Oct.21st 2010 from 4 to 7pm.

Narrating the Cruelty of Youth: the Bio-Cybernetic Art of Lu Yang
by Dajuin Yao

Open Media Lab, China Academy of Art
(translated from Chinese by the author)

Lu Yang, an immensely powerful pretty little girl.
Just like this seeming oxymoron, her art is at once cute, cruel, impish, pedantic, sober, and ecstatic. It’s conflicting, schizophrenic. It’s beyond comprehension, or so it seems.
No doubt, control is what Lu Yang’s art is about. Machine/animal control, machine/corpse control, human/machine control, machine/human control, human/human control. Yet, at the core of this control hierarchy is mind control. Behind, or perhaps inside, these unnamable cybernetic systems by this highly original artist (by either domestic or international standards) hides a consciousness entity that is sensitive and playful in the extreme – an advanced consciousness that far exceeds her age, length, and wingspan. Those textbook-like cold, sanitized dissection charts and diagrams are merely her bonnets, wigs, and fake eyeglasses – veils that she slaps on everyday to disguise her prettiness.

Magda Danysz presents

JR’s SOLO SHOW
AN AMAZING PROJECT AT THE SCALE OF THE CITY

Artist /艺术家 : JR
The Wrinkles of the City / 城市肌理

Opening Cocktail: Sunday October 24th, 2010 from 6 to 9PM

Show from Sunday October 24th to Saturday December 11th, 2010
everyday from 11AM to11PM 18Gallery, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1), 4F, Shanghai

开幕酒会：2010年10月24日（周四）晚上6点至9点
展期：2010年10月24日－ 12月11日
展览开放时间：周一至周日 11:00AM - 11:00PM
地址：中国 上海 中山东一路18号4楼18画廊（近南京东路）


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The Wrinkle of the City / 城市肌理

The Wrinkles of the City / Les sillons de la ville / Los Surcos de a Ciudad /城市肌理, is a world scale project by JR. The project starts with portraits of elderly people who represent the memory of a city past. JR interviews each person and records the changes witnessed in the city. Then these portraits, printed in monumental sizes, are pasted in the very same city in various places that inspire JR and represent the city’s heritage. Memory can stumble and fall - disappear any minute as the elderly leave us - JR shows us that it is important not to forget what the elderly have to pass on to younger generations. Without any judgment, JR just gives us bits of history in an artistic, yet poetic, social and above all, human way.

The Wrinkle of the City / 城市肌理, 是JR在全世界范围内计划的一个艺术项目。JR先挑选能代表城市记忆且拥有风趣往事经历的老年人作为对象，为他们画肖像画。并且JR询问每位长者亲眼目睹城市所历经变化的问题。然后，以巨型篇幅打印出他们的照片，按照JR的灵感，张贴在同一个城市的各个地方，这些地方也代表着城市的历史遗产。随着这些长者留给我们的记忆，时而模糊，时而被忘却，JR要告诉我们：一定要记住老年人传输给年轻人的记忆是至关重要的。
Limited edition prints by JR

WHO IS JR? JR是？

Recently awarded by the famous TED prize for his street action, JR defines hismelf as photographer who works on the borders of art and activism. To him the streets are one big art gallery and the city is a playground for larger-than-life shows. Since 2001, from Paris to Los Angeles via Montfermeil-Clichy-sous-Bois (France, Jerusalem), JR has presented many of his giant pasted photos in street shows. JR began photography in 2000. He began by photographing graffiti artists in action, then decided to invest himself the walls of his own city; Paris.
作为摄影师的JR，始终处于艺术与激进运动的边缘。对他来说，大街是一个大型的艺术画廊，城市则是庞大的展示场。自2001年以来，从巴黎，经法国Montfermeil、Clichy、Sous、Bois城市或耶路撒冷，至洛杉矶，JR非法地在大街上展示许多巨型粘贴照片。

In 2004, he worked on his series 28 millimeters. The first chapter was called Portrait of a Generation and made the cover of the New York Times. Giant portraits of young people from Parisian suburbs were shown in their own towns, and then to raise consciousness, were brought back to the center of Paris and were shown in the European House of Photography and Art Center in City Hall.After that in 2007 he added a second chapter to his series 28 millimeters - Face2Face, Israelis and Palestinians - Portrait of Twin Brothers. JR made portraits of Israelis and Palestinians who had the same job to show them literally face to face on both sides of the “separation/ security” wall in Israel and in several Palestinian and Israeli towns.
决定将自己投身在巴黎城市的墙壁上自2007年起，JR启动了新项目“妇女是英雄”，并在2008年向公众展出。JR拍摄了塞拉利昂，利比里亚，苏丹南部和肯尼亚的妇女，以此赞扬：即使生活在冲突地区，她们所表现出的高尚的人格尊严，并且共同分享她们的个人故事。在她们的祖国，JR展出她们的画像，并在世界多个城市举办空前规模的展览。由此使JR萌发将项目扩展到巴西，并将镜头聚焦整个贫民区、柬埔寨以及印度。“妇女是英雄”，同时也是JR制作的一部电影的主题，并被官方选定为戛纳电影节“影评周”的影片。从那时起，JR从事于新系列的作品”城市肌理”，隐喻着当地年长居民有关亲眼见证城市的记忆。每个粘贴的画像仅为其中的一层，即一张纸张和胶水的厚度。然后在墙面上将画像逐渐叠加起来。因画像不断的被重叠，面庞上皱纹体现城市的沧桑，突出历史的踪迹，有时以痛苦的方式体现出城市失去了某些青春的色彩。

Then in 2007 JR initiated his project Women Are Heroes, which was shown in 2008. By photographing women in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Kenya, JR pays tribute to these conflict areas and shares their stories of dignity. He exhibited portraits in their home countries and in spectacular exhibitions in several cities around the world. The project led JR in Brazil was done on the scale of an entire favela (Portuguese for slum) and then pursued in Cambodia and India.

Women Are Heroes was also the subject of a film made by JR, selected at the Cannes Film Festival for the Critics' Week in association with the Official Selection.

Since then, JR has started a new series of works involving Wrinkles of the City, imprinting the cities’ memories through the testimony of their elderly inhabitants. Each pasted portrait is like a layer, thick with paper and glue, which is then superimposed on the facades. The superimposition of the portraits and their wrinkles shows the city’s creases, highlights traces of history, sometimes even in a painful way for a city that has also lost certain aspects of its own youth.

决定将自己投身在巴黎城市的墙壁上自2007年起，JR启动了新项目“妇女是英雄”，并在2008年向公众展出。JR拍摄了塞拉利昂，利比里亚，苏丹南部和肯尼亚的妇女，以此赞扬：即使生活在冲突地区，她们所表现出的高尚的人格尊严，并且共同分享她们的个人故事。在她们的祖国，JR展出她们的画像，并在世界多个城市举办空前规模的展览。由此使JR萌发将项目扩展到巴西，并将镜头聚焦整个贫民区、柬埔寨以及印度。“妇女是英雄”，同时也是JR制作的一部电影的主题，并被官方选定为戛纳电影节“影评周”的影片。从那时起，JR从事于新系列的作品”城市肌理”，隐喻着当地年长居民有关亲眼见证城市的记忆。每个粘贴的画像仅为其中的一层，即一张纸张和胶水的厚度。然后在墙面上将画像逐渐叠加起来。因画像不断的被重叠，面庞上皱纹体现城市的沧桑，突出历史的踪迹，有时以痛苦的方式体现出城市失去了某些青春的色彩。
Main information

Show 1 : 18Gallery - Magda Danysz, Bund18, 18Zhonshan DongYi Lu, Shanghai, 26 october to 11 december 2010
Show 2 : Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, 23 october 2010 to 28 february 2011
Show 3 : In the whole City from 23 october 2010