Jade suit among exhibitions for Chinese New Year
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THE Spring Festival is here! Those who prefer to stay in Shanghai, here are some sights and exhibitions to check out.
Shanghai Museum
Address: 201 People’s Ave
“Selected Treasures of Early Chinese Civilization” includes collections from Shanghai and Xuzhou museums. It includes oracles, bronze, pottery to lacquer wares and architecture models. The exhibition focuses on the prehistoric period to the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220).
The spotlight of the exhibition is the famed jade burial suit sewn with fine gold wire, on loan from the Xuzhou Museum in Jiangsu Province. It is said to be the earliest jade pieces. This jade cloth is the greatest treasure of Xuzhou Museum.
Date: through March 26, 9am-4pm
The exhibition, “Highlights of Ancient Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Donation of Sun Yufeng’s Family,” is underway at the Shanghai Museum.
Sun (1901-67) was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. After graduating from a local school, he moved to Shanghai to find work and started his own successful business in 1929. He was a keen connoisseur of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and collected hundreds of ancient works in his studio, Hongyizhai.
His collection spanned nearly 1,000 years, from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to the modern age; as well as letters, poems, portraits, landscapes and flower-and-bird paintings. In 1985, Sun donated 78 paintings and calligraphy works featuring patriotic themes to Shanghai Museum.
The exhibition showcases 83 works donated by the family. One highlight is “Bamboo and Rocks," created by Wen Zhengming from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is said that Wen created his painting at the age of 62, at the height of his artistic career.
Date: Through February 26, 9am-4pm
Long Museum West Bund
Address: 3398 Longteng Ave
A retrospective exhibition of James Turrell will be unveiled at Long Museum, titled “James Turrell Immersive Light.” Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. In the 1970s, he began his series of “skyspaces” — enclosed spaces that opens to the sky through an aperture in the roof.
A “Skyspace” is an enclosed room large enough for roughly 15 people. Inside, viewers sit on benches along the edge to view the sky through an opening in the roof. Turrell is also known for his light tunnels and light projections that create shapes that seem to have mass and weight, though they are created with only light.
Born in 1943 in Los Angeles, Turrell has received numerous awards in the arts including the National Medal of Arts in 2013.
Date: January 22-May 21 (closed on January 27), 10am-5pm; January 26, 10am-3pm; January 28-February 2, 10:30am-5pm
Magic Door
Address: Transfer Hall, Metro Lines 1, 12, 13 Hanzhong Road Station
“Magic Door 2017 New Year Art Exhibition,” the first public 3D+AR immersive interactive digital art exhibition, is ongoing at Hanzhong Road subway station. The exhibition displays photographer Wang Xiaohui’s work “My past lives” and more than 60 other pieces of art and designs.
They have been created by 20 artists and designers from six different countries including the United States, UK and France. It also displays posters from 14 well-known art organizations including art fairs and galleries in Shanghai.
The installation designed by ToMASTER, together with chief architects Wang Linjie and British Wang & MacQueen Design, will include a variety of visual arts in the future.
Date: Through February 28
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