Austria, In Kunstraum Dornbirn, Chiharu Shiota’s Red Coil of Tubes and Thread Metaphors for the Heart Pump.. and More
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In Kunstraum Dornbirn, Chiharu Shiota’s Red Coil of Tubes and Thread Metaphors for the Heart Pump
Kunstraum Dornbirn presents “Who am I Tomorrow?,” a solo exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972), on view through November 12. Shiota is an internationally acclaimed installation artist who represented Japan at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Kunstraum Dornbirn, located in a converted building of a former machine factory, its hall specializes in large-scale installations. Shiota’s work, a metaphor for the heart’s pumping action to circulate blood throughout the body, hangs from the 11-meter-high ceiling. A coil of tubing 2,500 meters in length is held in a tangle by more than 5,000 strands of thread.
The red liquid flowing through the tubing is pumped by a medical pump into a triangular flask and then back into the tubing. By representing the life processes of humans and other creatures, the exhibition aims to reveal the connection between humans and the world at large.
France_Paris
City of Paris Museum of Modern Art presents Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki’s donated works
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) presents Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) through December 1. The exhibition features Zao’s works donated by Françoise Marquet-Zao, Zao’s wife and president of the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation. The show traces the evolution of Zao’s art from 1946 to 2006.
Zao was born in Beijing in 1920 and received his art education in China before arriving in Paris in 1948. He soon absorbed Western abstraction trends and became a leading representative of French lyrical abstraction. His work, which combined Western abstraction with traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy techniques, soon gained acclaim for its harmonization of East and West.
Music, poetry, and literature were also his sources of inspiration, and Zao actively interacted with French and Chinese artists, including Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Edgar Varèse (1883-1965), André Malraux (1901-1976), and Ieoh Ming Pei (1917-2019).
UK_Manchester
esea contemporary, Dinu Li solo show: A Phantom That Rose from the Crossroads of Culture
esea contemporary, the former Center for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, reopened last February as an institution dedicated to East and Southeast Asia’s contemporary art practices. esea contemporary presents “A Phantom’s Vibe” through October 29, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-born artist Dinu Li (b. 1965). Works on view include music, assemblage sculptures, and video installations.
The exhibition draws from the artist’s autobiographical experiences. He heard the song ‘Always Together’ as a child in a Hong Kong night market, heard it again in his 20s at a blues party in Manchester, and later realized it was recorded in a Chinese-run studio in Jamaica.
The artist likens the experience to the appearance of a phantom and uses it as a clue to trace the history of Chinese coolies in Jamaica. The exhibition combines autobiographical allegory with a history of cultural intersections to explore themes of colonial history, cultural memory, and hybrid identity.
