Image and imagination

Image and imagination

Coromandel Express perform their track 'Tarana'.

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Read more: Tarana by Coromandel Express

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Chinese painting is a special and pervasive feature of China’s social and cultural theater. In this respect, it has to be acknowledged that Chinese painting often functions as an assertion of national pride and uniqueness, which results in endless repetitive motifs. This should not overshadow the remarkable achievements in Chinese painting in...

Read more: Chinese Painting Today

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The Eloprogo Art House is an artists retreat in Yogyakarta province, Indonesia. Its a mystical place overlooking a holy river, which lies but a five minute ride from the great Borobudur Temple, an awe-inspiring wonder of the world. http://eloprogoarthouse.com/

I entered through the gates protected by the great dragon gods, the first thing I saw...

Read more: Elo Progo: Kusno in wonderland

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"Wang Gang’s portraits of the Yi in the wild show them as they are: the aptitude for merging oneself in total fusion with the elements, with the animal and the vegetal worlds, the Yi people’s intimate connection with Mother Nature characterizes Wang Gang’s love of freedom and his disregard for conventions.
In his keen sense of empathy for...

Read more: Yi in the Wild

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Last summer, Costa Rica was delighted to host a small sample of Chinese art during the first exhibition of Art and Chinese Culture organized by the Kung Tse Oriental Institute, a Chinese-Mandarin Language center in San Jose. This was the first time that such an event was organized in Costa-Rica, with various activities such as Dances of the...

Read more: Exhibition of Art and Chinese Culture in San Jose

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 Woman as Min Chi, woman as Goddess - the volcano, the sloth......
The woman I saw in two ways - first, I thought, an idealised image of yourself - you look at the viewer - your glance is sincere, and very open - you are what you are doing - you do not judge the viewer, in your glance, you are aware of them - you are communicating to them...

Read more: A Study of one woodcarving... a letter to Mickey Huang....

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Daniel Arroyo is 29 years old and he is a Spanish painter. He studied Fine Arts at Barcelona University and Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He has been living in Taipei for 7 months where he is currently learning the Chinese language and where he hopes to exhibit his work soon. He is very interested in seeing how his work...

Read more: Between the Horror and the Sublime

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In the South-East of Paris, on the 22th of June 2011, at the exhibition hall Les Voûtes, three taiwanese artists submitted their work to the public eye:

- Dialogue remixé de style FF (The remixed dialogue of two "FF" type face) by Li-Ming Cheng
- 40 by Charlene Shih,
- La lumière dépasse le temps, n°2 (Light Overtakes Time, no.2)...

Read more: Traces of time

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 At the art exhibition " Le poème lignifié," Amis artist Lin Yu-Tah talks about his piece "Schema," his obsession with objects and tactility, and how he considers malls before 10 am as the greatest archeological site ever. Following the discussion of materiality, Taiwanese artist Chuang Hsin-I explains her concept of "Materiality of...

Read more: Le poème lignifié / The Poem Lignified: An Interview with Two Artists

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The Made In Asia Toulouse Festival will be held from January 25 to February 10, 2012

Created in 2008, by Didier Kimmoun, and brought to the stage by the Tchin-tchine association, the Made in Asia festival attempts to present Asian cultures in France. This year it proposes to highlight Taiwan contemporary creative works through its most talented...

Read more: Taiwan arts in Toulouse