Zhejiang Provincial Museum

Abundance in Patriotic Spirit: Art Documents of Qin Dahu Kicks Off at Art Museum of China Academy of Art

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Friday, July 7, 2023

HANGZHOU, China, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the afternoon of July 3, the opening ceremony of "Abundance in Patriotic Spirit: Art Documents of Qin Dahu" kicked off at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art.

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  • HANGZHOU, China, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the afternoon of July 3, the opening ceremony of "Abundance in Patriotic Spirit: Art Documents of Qin Dahu" kicked off at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art.
  • The exhibition is hosted by the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Academy of Art (CAA), organized by the Art Museum of CAA, Zhejiang Artists Association, School of Painting of CAA, and Zhejiang Academy of Oil Painting, and supported by the National Art Museum of China, Zhejiang Art Museum, Yantai Art Museum, the Affiliated High School of CAA, among other art schools.
  • Mr. Qin Dahu is an influential oil painter and educator in contemporary China, specializing in thematic art creation.
  • From 1985 until his retirement, Mr. Qin served as an oil painting instructor at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, exerting a significant influence on the oil painting education of CAA in the new era.

Lineament and pages by Ann Hamilton, exhibited in the 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial 'Being Theoria' is open to the public at Zhejiang Art Museum on October 18,2022 (Duration: Oct.18 - Dec.4,2022), with more than 60 artists/groups from more than 10 countries around the world participating.

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  • HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial 'Being Theoria' is open to the public at Zhejiang Art Museum on October 18,2022 (Duration: Oct.18 - Dec.4,2022), with more than 60 artists/groups from more than 10 countries around the world participating.
  • The triennial which is held by China Academy of Art, is not segmented but linked up through several 'clues',viz.
  • Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects,and performance collaborations.
  • In the ongoing pages series, cloth fragments and words meet on paper lifted from a book's frontispiece or endpapers.

The 4th "Being Theoria" show opens on October 18th in Hangzhou

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Themed "Being Theoria", the 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial kicked off on October 18, 2022 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

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  • HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Themed "Being Theoria", the 4th Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial kicked off on October 18, 2022 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
  • The special project "Jinying | Pure Reason" of the Triennial opened on September 30 at the Hangzhou Museum.
  • At its heart, this curatorial approach suggests rebranding "art" as "being theoria", which alludes to the simultaneous presence of being and non-being.
  • Founded in 2013, the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art is an international exhibition dedicated to the research, creation, and display of contemporary fiber art.

Virtual Exhibitions of 23 Museums Lands on the Alipay Platform to Enhance Engagement with Mobile-Savvy Audience

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The collaboration between 4DAGE and Alipay provides Chinas mobile-savvy audience an opportunity to better engage with and learn about the museums rich histories.

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  • The collaboration between 4DAGE and Alipay provides Chinas mobile-savvy audience an opportunity to better engage with and learn about the museums rich histories.
  • Alipay is committed to supporting the digital operations of brands and merchants to enhance their connection and engagement with consumers in China.
  • Including todays announcement and a recent collaboration with nine Italian museums, over 2,000 museums have landed on the Alipay platform to enhance their digital operations and better connect with museum lovers.
  • Currently, there have been over 80 million businesses serving more than 1 billion consumers via Alipays open platform services.

The Tao of Chinese Calligraphy is the Way to the Whole World

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Saturday, October 16, 2021

This exhibition focuses on China Academy of Art's professor, Wang Dongling's 60-year exploration of calligraphy art, from traditional calligraphy to other styles such as Chaos-Writing (Entangled Calligraphy), Big Writing, Silver Gelatin Calligraphy, Calligraphy on Bamboo Stalks, Calligraphy using immersive virtual reality, and so on.

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  • This exhibition focuses on China Academy of Art's professor, Wang Dongling's 60-year exploration of calligraphy art, from traditional calligraphy to other styles such as Chaos-Writing (Entangled Calligraphy), Big Writing, Silver Gelatin Calligraphy, Calligraphy on Bamboo Stalks, Calligraphy using immersive virtual reality, and so on.
  • In October 2015, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., came to Hangzhou and paid a visit to Wang Dongling to learn Chinese calligraphy from him.
  • He never regards calligraphy as a kind of legacy, but promotes the open, experimental potential of calligraphy so that calligraphy, as an ancient art form, can become a member of the contemporary art world.
  • For calligraphy, he has a grand vision: to revitalize the great tradition of calligraphy for contemporary audiences, to spread the Tao of calligraphy in Chinese civilization to the whole world.

The Tao of Chinese Calligraphy is the Way to the Whole World

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Saturday, October 16, 2021

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The exhibition "From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 Years of Calligraphy" opens at the Zhejiang Art Museum on October 16, 2021. It focuses on China Academy of Art's professor, Wang Dongling's 60-year exploration of calligraphy art, from traditional calligraphy to other styles such as Chaos-Writing (Entangled Calligraphy), Big Writing, Silver Gelatin Calligraphy, Calligraphy on Bamboo Stalks, Calligraphy using immersive virtual reality. The long span of time covered by the exhibits, the diversity of styles, the depth of academic research, and the novelty of media experimentation are unprecedented in both Wang Dongling's exhibition history and in Chinese calligraphy exhibition history.

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  • The long span of time covered by the exhibits, the diversity of styles, the depth of academic research, and the novelty of media experimentation are unprecedented in both Wang Dongling's exhibition history andin Chinese calligraphy exhibition history.
  • The hanging scrolls in four scripts in Exhibition Hall No.6 showcase the six decades' creative journey of Wang Dongling.
  • He initiated the project "Big Characters Travel the World," a plan to construct writing scenes of Chinese calligraphy at art institutions worldwide, promoting academic communication between calligraphy and international art circle.
  • In his view, Chinese calligraphers must enter the scenes of international art for mutual illumination and inspiration in cross-cultural exchange.