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Catalogues of exhibitions
Qin YufenExhibited at Art Beatus Vancouver November 6 - December 15, 1998 Echolot"Modern art of the West has a strong tradition of
confrontation and conflict. It generally seeks contradiction, not harmony, as a
driving force in history. Whole ness seems a rather tricky, dangerously elusive
concept. Only isolated artists oriented themselves meditatively in modernism,
not least in the confrontation with other cultures...." This book not only
offers samples of Qin Yufen works but an inside view of the effects modern art
is having on the East and West from different points of view. Qin Yufen was born
and raised in China but upon arriving in Germany she never left, perhaps this
quote from her sums it up, "Chinese culture is like the blood in my body, but
the Western world.. is the air I breathe."
Katie CheungExhibited in at Art Beatus
Vancouver, September 07 - October 31, 2001 Apple from my heart - Katie CheungKatie Cheung's catalogue of apple works is a very colorful presence, featuring apples and her own poems. Apples in Katie Cheung's paintings are joyful for they have found a cheerful friend. Through the use of her paint brush, she will chare the happiness of her apples with many people. To quote the foreword, "The joy and richness of Katie's mixed media and paintings embrace you as do stained-glass windows in cathedrals, or the way one is drawn to tropical aquariums." 48
pages, English / Chinese, Full Color, 2000
Beck & Al HansenExhibited at the Art Beatus Gallery January 05 - March 30, 1999 Playing with MatchesVancouver, B.C. – Between 1989 and 1991, Grammy-winning musician Beck Hansen made several trips to Europe to visit his grand father, the Happenings artist Al Hansen. Since the early 1970's Beck and Al Hansen shared an informal exchange of ideas that was the catalyst for their engagements with images, words and sound/performance. Through mixed media artwork, collages, assemblages, drawings, photographs, inter-media poems and documentation, Beck & Al Hansen : Playing with Matches surveys the myriad sources, shared values, and per formative impulses that acted as a values, and per formative impulses that acted as a bridge between their respective generations. 140 pages, English, Full Color, 1998
Special International EditionsExhibited at Venice Biennale, 1999 Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard - Cai Guo-QiangVenice. -- This booklet is a synapse on the complex project completed at the Venice Biennale Mr. Cai Guo-Qiang presented his "Bringing to Venice what Marco Polo forgot", a work that commemorated and was inspired by Marco Polo's return trip to Venice from Quanzhou, the artist's native city. Tel Aviv's Jue Chang - Fifty Strokes to Each Tel Aviv. -- This booklet is about "Jue Chang" is a huge "percussion instrument" compromising of about 100 "drums" transformed from chairs and beds (about 5) collected from different parts of the world (mainly from the Middle-East). The opening of the exhibition was a "Concert", the first part consisting of 3 Tibet Buddhists playing the "overture" with the audience enjoining after. Venice Booklet -
Zhu JinshiExhibited at Hong Kong Arts Centre, April 9th to 14th, 1997 Space to EmptinessZhu Junshi's Space of emptiness is an impartment of Zhu's thoughts, opening a way for us to understand the term of emptiness, by way of his deciphering. Nothingness is the precondition of being and the actual prerequisite of being. This means that being and nothingness are related to each other and create each other. It is also the aura of emptiness that creates harmony. But Zhu Jinshi also intends another kind of emptiness and here is again very close to out Western understanding: he means the cultural emptiness he associates with the societal condition of his homeland. His Artistic existence in Beijing differs radically from in the west. His artistic gestures are necessarily small, the material inconspicuous. 49 pages, English / German, Full Color, 1997
Chen DanqingExhibited at Art Beatus Vancouver, November 15th - December 15th, 1996 Exhibited at Art Beatus Gallery Vancouver, March 1 - May 2, 2001 Art Book Still as Still LifeVancouver, B.C. -- Art Beatus proudly launches its ground-breaking "Connoisseurs Series" this year, showing remarkable Chinese paintings and calligraphy by several connoisseurs. English / Chinese, Full Color, 1996
Ren RongExhibited at Art Beatus Vancouver, December 8 - February 28, 2000 Ren RongVancouver, B.C. -- Art Beatus proudly portrays Ren Rong's Work. This book is written in German, providing a sampling of recent works. 12 pages, German, Full color, 2000
Ren RongExhibited at Art Beatus Vancouver, December 8 - February 28, 2000 Ren RongVancouver, B.C. -- Art Beatus proudly portrays Ren Rong's Work. This book is written in German, dense and in-depth. 64 pages, German, Full color, 2000 For further information, please contact: |
