Part of a DVD series produced by China Institute featuring intimate discussions with artists, curators, critics and art historians about contemporary Chinese art.
This is a video recording of a talk on 10 March 2009 focusing 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.
This is a video recording of a talk on 10 March 2009 focusing 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.
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Onsite
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practitioner
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Location code
CD.001537
Language
English
Keywords
talk,  diaspora,  painting,  multimedia art,  China
Publication/Creation date
2009
Running time
1:12:35
Video format
DVD
No of copies
1
Content type
event photograph/recording
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