{"id":65746,"date":"2007-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/china-seen-by-photography-exhibition-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"china-seen-by-photography-exhibition-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/china-seen-by-photography-exhibition-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018 CHINA seen by\u2026\u2019 photography exhibition at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 11, 2007\u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Fine Arts Center Galleries will offer a unique, bold photography exhibition this fall called \u201cCHINA seen by \u2026\u201d that should be seen by anyone interested in globalization, culture, fine art, and contemporary China as viewed through the eyes of photographers from different cultures.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cCHINA seen by\u2026\u201d examines China through the works of 15 contemporary fine art photographers, some Chinese, some Westerners, of various generations, backgrounds and training. The exhibition compares and contrasts the impressive works by leading Chinese artists or \u201cinsiders\u201d with those created by Western photographers visiting from abroad, or \u201coutsiders.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe ambitious exhibition, will run from Oct. 2 through Dec. 9 in the Main Gallery of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Fine Art Center, to complement 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s fall Honors Colloquium, China Rising, a public lecture series, which is examining the China\u2019s dramatic transformation during the past three decades. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe large-scale mostly color images present a series of vignettes, each telling its own story, but viewed collectively, the exhibition presents a picture of the character of contemporary China with its meteoric rise to the world stage and the influence of that global transformation,\u201d says J. Tolnick Champa, director of the Fine Arts Center Galleries and curator of \u201cCHINA seen by\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cEverything is changing in China. There is vast urban renewal. Many of the photographers are interpreting that change in their own way,\u201d says Champa.<\/p>\n


\nLiu Zheng\u2019s image of two wealthy Chinese businessmen dressed in suits with festive masks celebrating New Year\u2019s Eve in Beijing could have been taken in any American city. In many ways the Chinese tradition seems to get incorporated into modern day. For instance, Huang Yan shows viewers an image of a man\u2019s painted chest that resembles a decorative \u201ctattoo\u201d, but it is actually painted with fine brush strokes and displays a traditional Chinese landscape. \u201cLandscape is an abode in which my mortal body can reside,\u201d this photographer has commented.<\/p>\n

Taiwan-born, New York artist Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao\u2019s large panorama of New York City is mounted next to China\u2019s Chi Peng\u2019s digital montage of Times Square superimposed with massive Chinese advertising. \u201cIs it all coming together or is it distinctive?\u201d asks the curator.<\/p>\n


\nContemporary Chinese photography is extraordinarily popular, according to Champa who says that works are quickly sold from galleries. When she began conceiving the exhibition more than a year ago, she initially consulted with Valerie Doran, an American curator based in Hong Kong whose specializes in contemporary Chinese art, Mitchell Clark, former research fellow at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and curator Christopher Phillips of the International Center of Photography in New York who has done much to advance public understanding of contemporary China.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the exhibition and its programs, go to www.uri.edu\/artgalleries. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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