We of course paid a visit to our favorite art district in Beijing: 798.
Showing posts with label 798. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 798. Show all posts
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
And... We're Back!
We will start posting many pictures soon. To whet your appetite a picture of a sculpture of Gu Dexin in UCCU at 798 Art District in Beijing. 798 has not changed much: still lots of fun.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Last visit to 798
The pollution has been so bad lately, that we were planning to stay home today with the curtains closed. But then suddenly the air quality index dropped enormously:
Everything looked crisp and wonderful, so we had to get out of our apartment. We decided to pay a last visit to 798.
Please leave a comment to help us understand how these art works are symbolic for our stay in China.
Everything looked crisp and wonderful, so we had to get out of our apartment. We decided to pay a last visit to 798.
Please leave a comment to help us understand how these art works are symbolic for our stay in China.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Feelings Are Slippery
Sanne and Wanching came to visit Beijing, so it was time to visit 798 yet again. Here are some impressions:
As usual, UCCA had a very interesting installation. This is called Feelings Are Facts:
It consisted of a large space filled with mist and lighted in these beautiful colors.
A better name may have been "Feelings Are Slippery", as the floor was very slippery and the space was not level (by design). A came out with sticky jeans, because she ventured too far into the world of art.
Tony Ousler's exhibition was still there, too:
As usual, UCCA had a very interesting installation. This is called Feelings Are Facts:
It consisted of a large space filled with mist and lighted in these beautiful colors.
A better name may have been "Feelings Are Slippery", as the floor was very slippery and the space was not level (by design). A came out with sticky jeans, because she ventured too far into the world of art.
Tony Ousler's exhibition was still there, too:
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Tony Oursler: Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
Here are some photos of our favorite exhibition at 798 this time.
The title comes from a paper by George Miller from 1956. Apparently, "psychological experiments have shown that people have a hard time remembering more than about seven unrelated pieces of really dull data all at once."
Seven unrelated pieces of really dull data...
plus or minus two...
...it kind of reminds me of work somehow.
But fortunately, the exhibition did not! In fact, it reminded me of another exhibition I saw in Eindhoven in 1995!
The title comes from a paper by George Miller from 1956. Apparently, "psychological experiments have shown that people have a hard time remembering more than about seven unrelated pieces of really dull data all at once."
Seven unrelated pieces of really dull data...
plus or minus two...
...it kind of reminds me of work somehow.
But fortunately, the exhibition did not! In fact, it reminded me of another exhibition I saw in Eindhoven in 1995!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
798
Yesterday we decided to go to Cao Chang Di, which is like 798, but supposedly less commercial. Well, it was. There were no frames, or female genitalia to indicate to us that we were looking at art. But using our Chinese dictionary, we did understand the punny title of a stone mole hill: "Mao Zhi Dong".
This was the most understandable piece:
We walk around a little more there, but everything seemed closed. So we went back to the art scene we love, 798.
First we went to Iberia, where there were many fun pieces (an invitation letter for an artist completely made from cookies; a project where 10 private detectives were hired to follow each other (detective 1 was hired to follow detective 2, detective 2 to follow detective 3, et cetera --- hilarity ensued; and many more). I especially enjoyed A Work by Jiang Zhi ("Print of a fictional text recording process of developing 'Four Seasons'"), of which here a detail:
It turned out that we could actually buy this art work for only 10 RMB in the shop!
After lunch, we went to our other favorite museum in 798: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, or UCCA. We were fascinated by this art work:
So much so that we even shot video:
And actually took pictures from multiple angles --- here are two more more good measure:
Then some more artz, with more easily understood messages:
And finally, an installation in a dark room:
Because we had to know what this actually was, I also took a picture with flash:
This was the most understandable piece:
We walk around a little more there, but everything seemed closed. So we went back to the art scene we love, 798.
First we went to Iberia, where there were many fun pieces (an invitation letter for an artist completely made from cookies; a project where 10 private detectives were hired to follow each other (detective 1 was hired to follow detective 2, detective 2 to follow detective 3, et cetera --- hilarity ensued; and many more). I especially enjoyed A Work by Jiang Zhi ("Print of a fictional text recording process of developing 'Four Seasons'"), of which here a detail:
It turned out that we could actually buy this art work for only 10 RMB in the shop!
After lunch, we went to our other favorite museum in 798: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, or UCCA. We were fascinated by this art work:
So much so that we even shot video:
And actually took pictures from multiple angles --- here are two more more good measure:
Then some more artz, with more easily understood messages:
And finally, an installation in a dark room:
Because we had to know what this actually was, I also took a picture with flash:
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