James Cohan Shangai Announcement Talks at THE BUND FORUM by Yun-Fei JI this Saturday July 31:.....
季云飞于工作室，伦敦Parasol Unit，2007年1月
Photo: Tara Darby / Modern Painters Magazine
摄影：Tara Darby / 《Modern Painters》杂志
Yun-Fei Ji
Saturday, July 31st, 2010, 14: 30-16: 30 Jing’an Room, 800 Show (Dutch Cultural Center) No. 800 Changde Road, Shanghai
THE BUND FORUM presents an artist talk by New York-based Chinese painter Yun-Fei Ji. Starting with the artist’s latest work, in the format of a traditional hand scroll The Three Gorges Dam Migration commissioned by Museum of Modern Art New York, Ji will discuss his ten-year exploration around the theme of the Three Gorges Dam Project in which Ji uses landscape painting to express the utopian ideals of Chinese history from past collectivization to new consumerism. At the talk, Ji will also speak about his life and experience as a Chinese artist in New York, a city that has embraced many of his Chinese peers like Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Xu Bing.
The event takes place on Saturday, July 31, 14: 30-16: 30. The talk is solely in Chinese.
Admission free. Limited seating, please RSVP Leo Xu lxu@jamescohan.com or +86-21-54660825 x 602.
Exhibition:Ghosts and Men from Badong, a solo exhibition of Yun-Fei Ji featuring a body of his most recent works, is currently on view at James Cohan Gallery Shanghai through August 29.
Yun-Fei Ji:
Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963, Beijing) studied at Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing and relocated to the US in 1986. Executed in traditional Chinese watercolor inks and on traditional papers, Ji’s work recalls traditional Chinese landscape painting, especially that of the Song period. Ji received the 2006 American Academy Prix de Rome fellowship and residency, and, in 2007, was artist-in-residence at Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art in London. In 2005, Ji was artist-in-residence at Yale University where he conducted extensive research with the institution's scholars. Ji's important solo museum exhibition, The Empty City, 2004, originated at the Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, Missouri) and toured to the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, and the Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Indiana. In 2004, the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The East Wind was organized at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania. Ji's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Whitney Biennial 2002. In 2008, Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, an exhibition of four Chinese artists originated at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, and continues to tour nationally. Yun-Fei Ji lives and works in New York.
THE BUND FORUM Founded by THE BUND weekly, THE BUND FORUM is comprised of talks, workshops, and discussions by some of today’s most dynamic individuals from various disciplines -- visual art, cinema, literature, and dance. Active in Beijing and Shanghai, THE BUND FORUM is nomadic and has been hosted in many prestigious institutions and venues, such as Pekin University, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Library, among many others.
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