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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
"learning without thinking leads to confusion; thinking without learning ends in danger"
Xinhua News Agency reports that Prisoners build Confucius sculpture. No pix alas of the five-metre high, eight-ton sculpture, made of mud. It sounds quite a sight. The prison is in Hubei province.Labels: China
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
promoting public art in Hong Kong's housing estates
This government press release talks about housing estate art in the SAR. The Tung Chung Artwalk is described as the first public art installation launched by Hong Kong's housing authority, in collaboration with "notable arts institutions". The Artwalk features some 16 works selected from an open competition that attracted some 316 entries under the theme "New Face of Heritage".Labels: China
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
Electroland - these boys are on to something
Bringing together architectural deployment of LCDs with simple interactions (like the stuff James Seawright* did for the Seattle Airport in the early 1970s if you can remember that far back) Electroland has put together a series of very interesting projects, some realized, some not. And, surprise surprise, some of these projects work in advertising, like the Target-branded Rockefeller Center observation platform in NYC.
According to their website, the team has been selected to create a public art masterplan for Houston, Texas.
*for more on Seawright's Seattle airport and its fate, click here.Technorati Tags: ambient advertising, newyorkcity, public_art, airport art, Seattle, urban screens
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Friday, April 07, 2006
public art in China
Just came back from a little trip to Shanghai. Didn't look at much art, but coincidentally old friend Will Moss just posted some of his phun photos of public art in China.
And combining two interests, art commemorating the maritime silk road has been unveiled in Quanzhou, Fujian.Technorati Tags: China, public art, sculpture
Labels: China
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
finalists announced in Beijing's Olympics public sculpture contest
The Chinese Olympic Committee announced the finalists in the Olympics public sculpture contest. As we've previously noted, maquettes will tour three cities in China before a public vote to determine the "gold, silver and bronze" winners. I couldn't find a presentation of the 273 finalists online, but I am sure it will come. Nearly 2500 designs were entered by artists from 82 countries and regions, with 1711 from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao.
The original terms of reference and contracts for the contest can be found here.Technorati Tags: China, public art, sculpture
Labels: China
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
City of Biscuits
At Selfridges in London. In the work of Chinese artist Song Dong, thousands of biscuits and sweets are being used to create an edible city. After completion it will be, well, eaten. The work is meant to criticize the (cookie-cutter?) sameness of Asia's new cities, the confectionary quality of their showpiece buildings?
See the slideshow from the BBC.
And apparently, those on the bottom are getting a bit stale...Technorati Tags: China, sculpture
Labels: China
# posted @ 7:06 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Blame China!
...for all those losses of metal in public places. Henry Moores and more. This UK journalist says there is a global trend of stealing metal from public spaces...and the reason is, of course, China - those billions and their hunger for resources...Technorati Tags: art theft, sculpture
Labels: China
# posted @ 6:17 PM
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Hong Kong Street Art
A nice selection of Hong Kong stickers, stencils and graffiti can be found on in the Street Art pool on flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/groups/87208201@N00/pool/tags/hongkong/.Labels: China
# posted @ 5:52 PM
Friday, December 30, 2005
This is not a political ice sculpture
The fish is not in its death throes as a result of poisoning from a polluted Songhua river that runs through ice-sculpture capital, Harbin in Northern China.Labels: China
# posted @ 10:39 AM
Saturday, December 24, 2005
interesting piece in Hong Kong
Looks quite touchable, and I wonder how it gets its glow...no info about the work however...Labels: China
# posted @ 1:58 PM
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Shanghai Urban Sculpture Committee up to tricks...
Shanghai officials certainly are "hurdling" their way to making Shanghai a cultured city - public art and all.Labels: China
# posted @ 6:46 PM
Flying Horses for Shanghai
Missed this story... sorry! A new sculpture for Shanghai, by Arman Pierre Fernandez. The work funded by a property developer. Actually I was on Nanjing Road West and didn't see it in September. I'll be back in December and will let you know...
Cute pix from Xinhua News Agency!Technorati Tags: China, sculpture
Labels: China
# posted @ 9:38 AM
The two Bruces
Nusantara Public Art has been on this story for some time. We reported with admiration the words of the Mostar Urban Movement team, "People have gotten so stupid that we have to explain irony. But that is not hard for us." Then we reported Hong Kong's plans to memorialize the actor.
Now both groups will unveil their statues this weekend, which is also Bruce Lee's birthday. See this story where the Mostar group announces that they are "delighted to beat Hong Kong".
This story summed up the Bosnian public art dilemma best.
No pix yet, but I'll post them as they become available.Labels: China
# posted @ 9:30 AM
Thursday, August 11, 2005
public art contest for Beijing Olympics
Intriguing story has been picked up by many newspapers. We link to the Xinhua version. Designs will be solicited via Chinese missions and "international agencies and institutions". Some 200 works will tour China, before some 30 works are selected as winners. Public voting will be part of the assessment process.Technorati Tags: public art, China, sculpture
Labels: China
# posted @ 11:03 PM
Friday, July 29, 2005
a new activity for Beihai - China's first national sand sculpture contest
Strangely doesn't look like there's much variety here.... The winner is 'Hometown to south pearls', created by Zhang Yangen, an associate professor of Guangxi Arts Institute. The theme was towns of the southern silk route. No doubt the choice of the "hometown of the south pearls" holds some reference to China's peaceful southwards expansion!Labels: China
# posted @ 11:41 PM
Monday, July 25, 2005
Hong Kong gets a statue for Bruce Lee
This AP story in Singapore's TODAYonline tells of Hong Kong's plan to unveil a statue of Bruce Lee later in the year. The story claims that the statue will be a world's first, but it is certainly not the first statue of Bruce Lee to be announced. We recorded the story of a Bruce Lee statue in Mostar, Bosnia, late last year. And why did the Bosnians want a statue of Bruce:"Out of all the ethnic heroes and those who have a material interest in acting as victims, we have chosen Bruce Lee. Now they can rack their brains trying to decide whether he is he Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim), Croat, or Serb," said Veselin Gatalo, one of the initiators of the idea.
An interesting element of the Hong Kong statue is that fans are being given the opportunity to vote online for Lee's pose (though I haven't found the website yet). The poses "all feature Lee in his classic poses - all with a bare torso and his signature weapon the nunchaku." The artist is "Deng Xiaoping sculptor" Cao Chongen, a professor of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art.
See also the BBC story here.Labels: China
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Sunday, July 24, 2005
Space Invaders hit Hong Kong
More public art inspired by video games. Wow, maybe this is a whole new genre! (see recent stories here and here). This particular public art invasion has a pretty nifty web site.Labels: China
# posted @ 11:41 PM
Saturday, July 23, 2005
China to make statues for former AP reporter Iris Chang
People's Daily Online -- China to make statues for former AP reporter Iris Chang: "
China will make two statues for Iris Chang, the late former female reporter of the Associated Press, for her exposure of 'atrocities committed by Japanese aggressors' in China and the spirit to 'dig up the historical truth'.
A group of eminent Chinese artists and scholars discussed the clay model of the work in Beijing on Tuesday.
No visual of the models provided.Labels: China
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