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TIMEZONE 8 PRESS RELEASE
Urban China: Work in
Progress Book Launch and Talk with Jiang Jun and Brendan McGetrick
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Timezone 8 (798), No 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Rd
Timezone 8 is pleased to announce the book launch of Urban China Work in Progress. This members only event will take place at Timezone 8 (798) 4:30-5:30pm, Sunday November 15. Speaking at the launch will be the books Editors Brendan McGetrick and Jiang Jun. Canapes and refreshements will be served prior to the talk.
Published by Timezone 8, Urban China: Work in Progress will be available for sale and signing on the night.
Urban China: Work In Progress is a groundbreaking publication that brings together many of China’s most influential contemporary
writers, photographers, and critics. Drawn from the pages of Urban China magazine, a monthly magazine that combines politics, sociology, mass
media, architecture, art, and literature, the book provides an intimate view to a century of radical modernization in
China. Organized around three basic themes - society, family, and education - the book fans out to cover an expansive range of topics,
offering personal perspectives on a culture that is influential, often discussed, but little understood. Presented here for the first time in English,
the essays, photos, maps, diagrams, and illustrations that comprise Work In Progress establish a new paradigm for the study of Chinese cultural construction.
An excellent magazine... Every month Urban China attempts the seemingly impossible - to construct a coherent narrative about a
landscape that is changing by the minute.- Rem Koolhaas
I have been a fan of Urban China for a long, long time. It is a great example of how a magazine can be a laboratory and also a time capsule. - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Urban China has done a great job to become a really unique magazine on urban issues. - Hou Hanru
About the Editors/Speakers:
Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer, editor, and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries, including Wired, Art Review, Domus, and casa BRUTUS. His recent projects include the books Becoming (Ivory Press and Timezone 8, 2008)and MAD Dinner (Actar, 2008), as well as 桌志I Eat Up, a magazine about consumption formatted as a table cloth. From 2002-2006, he served as head writer at the research studio AMO.
Jiang Jun is a designer, editor and critic, who has been working on urban research and experimental study, exploring the interrelationship between design phenomena and urban dynamics. He founded Underline Office in late 2003 and has served as the editor-in-chief of Urban China magazine since the end of 2004, and in the meantime has been working on the book Hi-China.
Please RSVP by email jackie_li@yeah.net or by phone 5978 9076.
To purchase a copy of the book, visit www.timezone8.com
Artists Wei Qingji and Wu Yi Talk on Ink in Contemporary Art Practice
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time: 18:00-19:00
Venue: Timezone 8 (798), No 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Rd
Timezone 8 is pleased to announce that artists Wei Qingji and Wu Yi will speak at timezone 8 (Beijing 798) on ink painting within the framework of contemporary art discourse. This members only event will take place at Timezone 8 (798) 6:00-7:00pm, Saturday November 7. Canapes and refreshments will be served prior to the talk.
Timezone 8’s just published monographs Wei Qingji and Wu Yi will also be available for sale and signing.
About the Artists (for more information about Wu Yi, visit http://www.timezone8.com/wuyi.htm):
Born in Qingdao in 1971, Wei Qingji is among the leading ’experimental ink’ painters in contemporary art in China. Trained in ink at Nankai University, Wei Qingji has over the last ten years created a personal aesthetic that in its incongruity of form and content seems ironic, but not crude. While his materials are traditional, their multi-form application and ironic message are anything but. Nor is his work rehashed postmodern pastiche resulting in a signature style. Rather, his ’ink experiments’ avoid the irony that comes from repetition and stylization. His ouevre resists easy classification as it varies from a stark blank field with graffiti-like brushwork, to a charcoal black ink Matterhorn against a Ruscha-esque Hollywood sky, to a cartoon mise-en-scene line-drawn in a Shanghai modernist xieyistyle from the 1930s.
His works have been included in various prominent exhibitions such as the Second Annual Chengdu Biennale and the International Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition at the Asian Cultural Center in New York. He was one of only two ink artists represented by the renowned curator Hans Van Dijk. He is currently teaching at the College of Art in South China Normal in Guangzhou.
Please RSVP by email jackie_li@yeah.net or by phone 5978 9076.
To purchase a copy of the book, visit www.timezone8.com
Artists Wu Yi Joins Wei Qingji for Saturday Talk on Ink in Contemporary Art
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time: 18:00-19:00
Venue: Timezone 8 (798), No 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Rd
Timezone 8 is pleased to announce the launch of its second book on contemporary ink painting, Wu Yi . In attendance, artist Wu Yi will join previously announced Wei Qingji to discuss ink painting within the framework of discourse on contemporary art. This members only event will take place at Timezone 8 (798) 6:00-7:00pm, Saturday November 7. Speaking at the launch will be the book author Wu Yi and Wei Qingji. Canapes and refreshements will be served prior to talk.
Independent critics on ink painter Wu Yi and his work:
Wu Yi’s Works: revolutionary narratives, personal perspective, traditional ink and wash, all in equal measure, in a way that I
really like and that suprises me everytime I revisit them. — Chen Xiaoxin
In fact, Wu Yi’s works speak of historical events. When we speak of ink and wash, we speak of narratives within a historical and cultural context.
In this way, he brings to life anew historical events, a special feeling, one that has a transcendent, sublime element. We sense the meaning in his
style and choice of medium.
—Wang Lin
Wu Yi’s brushstrokes derive from his free nature. He draws the Zen essence from classical painting and quietly transforms it into a form of contemporary culture, conveying the harmony and essence of Zen while forging a new modality for contemporary ink.
—Fan Di’an
About the artist:
1966 Born in Changchun City, Jilin Province.
1989 Graduated from the department of traditional Chinese painting under Central Academy of Fine Arts, with bachelor’s degree.
1993 Graduated from the department of traditional Chinese painting under Central Academy of Fine Arts, with master’s degree with professor Lu Chen as tutor.
Now serves as associate professor at the mural painting department under Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Please RSVP by email jackie_li@yeah.net or by phone 5978 9076.
To purchase a copy of the book, visit www.timezone8.com
Dragon and Rose Garden: Art and Power in China Book Signing at Timezone 8 (Beijing 798) 7:00pm on Tuesday 29 September and at Frankfurt Book Fair 2:00pm 14 October
New Book Canvases Artists, Architects and Urban Planners on the Past, Present and Future of China’s Cultural Identity
Beijing, 14/10/2009 - Timezone 8 is please to announce that Sus Van Elzen will discuss and sign his new book Dragon and Rose Garden: Art and Power in China at Timezone 8 (Beijing 798) 7:00pm on Tuesday, 29 September and subsequently at Timezone 8’s stand (Halle 4.1, Stand L556) at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, 2:00pm on 14 October.
The Wild, Wild East - An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China Launches at Frankfurt Book Fair
New York - Based Art Critic Barbara Pollack Visits Frankfurt for Book Launch and Signing
Beijing, 15/10/2009 - Timezone 8 is pleased to announce leading contemporary art critic Barbara Pollack will appear at the Frankfurt Book Fair to launch her latest book, The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China. The signing will take place at Timezone 8’s booth in Halle 4.1 Booth L556, 4-6pm on Thursday, October 15. A book signing will be held 4-6pm on Saturday, October 17 at the same location.
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