Rhône transporting the territory in the Nouvel Institut Franco ChinoisAn exhibition that shows the result of a residency and an exchange at e-Art in Hangzhou.
In the article, " Porcelaine à quatre mains ", porcelain with four hands, written by Sarah Fouassier published in Le Petit Bulletin on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 we find the spirit and approach of the project. You can read it on the site http://www.petit-bulletin.fr
On the occasion of this exhibition are published two publications and some promotional films. You can see below the overview.
To be precise, it must be understood that the residence took place in Hangzhou and that the porcelain was made in Jingdezhen, the city of porcelain some 380 kilometers away from this city.
Article of "Le Petit Bulletin" (the small paper):
We told you about it in our "back to school" publication this exhibition where East and West meet in a precious dialogue between two artists: Niek Van de Steeg, visual artist and professor at the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon , and Guohua Wu, Chinese decorator painter. "During my residency in China in Hangzhou (in the spring of 2017), I decided to produce a porcelain work in the city of Jingdezhen, the Chinese capital of porcelain": Niek van de Steeg then decided to find a painter able to retranscribe seven drawings representing the course of the Rhone.
Set side by side, this geographical frieze scrolls through the different landscapes along the river, from its source the Rhône gletcher in Switzerland to its end in the Bouches-du-Rhône in France. A landscape punctuated by infrastructures created by the hand of the man which generate a significant pollution and destruction of the environment. Nuclear power station, airport, refinery, this transport of the territory, or rather the landscape is a manifesto of the annihilation of the natural resources bordering the river. Pollution, a theme dear to the artist who inspired him for the title of his previous exhibition, at the Fine Arts Venue Madeleine-Lambert de Vénissieux in resonance with the Biennial.
Niek Van de Steeg creates bridges like here, at the New Franco-Chinese Institute, with the collaboration between two artists from very distant cultural horizons. In China, Guohua Wu works at the chain and painted mostly on porcelain, he never left his province and unfortunately could not come to see the exhibition of this work in four hands. In his translation of Steeg's drawings, the artist has sprinkled the course of the river with Chinese iconographic elements. We see hats and boats with pointed ends, and it is in the blue of the river and in the vegetation, including trees, that the painter gives us to see the style of traditional Chinese painting: precise, ornamental and poetic.
Niek Van de SteegAu New Franco-Chinese Institute until 18 April
The publication of the Nouvel Institut Franco Chinois :
On the occasion of this exhibition are published two publications and some promotional films. You can see below the overview.
To be precise, it must be understood that the residence took place in Hangzhou and that the porcelain was made in Jingdezhen, the city of porcelain some 380 kilometers away from this city.
Article of "Le Petit Bulletin" (the small paper):
We told you about it in our "back to school" publication this exhibition where East and West meet in a precious dialogue between two artists: Niek Van de Steeg, visual artist and professor at the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon , and Guohua Wu, Chinese decorator painter. "During my residency in China in Hangzhou (in the spring of 2017), I decided to produce a porcelain work in the city of Jingdezhen, the Chinese capital of porcelain": Niek van de Steeg then decided to find a painter able to retranscribe seven drawings representing the course of the Rhone.
Set side by side, this geographical frieze scrolls through the different landscapes along the river, from its source the Rhône gletcher in Switzerland to its end in the Bouches-du-Rhône in France. A landscape punctuated by infrastructures created by the hand of the man which generate a significant pollution and destruction of the environment. Nuclear power station, airport, refinery, this transport of the territory, or rather the landscape is a manifesto of the annihilation of the natural resources bordering the river. Pollution, a theme dear to the artist who inspired him for the title of his previous exhibition, at the Fine Arts Venue Madeleine-Lambert de Vénissieux in resonance with the Biennial.
Niek Van de Steeg creates bridges like here, at the New Franco-Chinese Institute, with the collaboration between two artists from very distant cultural horizons. In China, Guohua Wu works at the chain and painted mostly on porcelain, he never left his province and unfortunately could not come to see the exhibition of this work in four hands. In his translation of Steeg's drawings, the artist has sprinkled the course of the river with Chinese iconographic elements. We see hats and boats with pointed ends, and it is in the blue of the river and in the vegetation, including trees, that the painter gives us to see the style of traditional Chinese painting: precise, ornamental and poetic.
Niek Van de SteegAu New Franco-Chinese Institute until 18 April
The publication of the Nouvel Institut Franco Chinois :
Curating, organisation and direction of the exhibition Candice Du Chayla
Direction of the exhibition and the publications and editing Marie Garino
Social networks et logistic assistance by Maud Lafarge
The video of France 3 Rhône-Alpes Auvergne :
Copyrights : FR 3 19/20 Grand Lyon, Y.Marie, S.Françoise, S.Bouix
The video of TLM :
Copyrights TLM
Edition Ecole National des Beaux Arts de Lyon : Transporting the Territory edition of 30 signed et numbered.
Niek van de Steeg, François Aubart, Guohua Wu and the perticipation of Huiyu Yan, Ting Lan, Nicolas Romarie, François Piron, Denis Le Coq, Amandine Quillon, Cécile Mazoyer
Niek van de Steeg, François Aubart, Guohua Wu and the perticipation of Huiyu Yan, Ting Lan, Nicolas Romarie, François Piron, Denis Le Coq, Amandine Quillon, Cécile Mazoyer
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