Art Show: The Sun at 8 O'clock

'Contact' (By Li Wenjing)

 

Date: June 17 – July 10, 2009 
Venue: Yang Zhiguang Art Center, G/F of the Club of Qiaoqi Residential Garden, 487 Donghuan Lu, Shiqiao, Panyu District of Guangzhou
How to get there: About 10 minutes walk westward from exit A of Shiqiao Stop on metro line 3; beside the '3rd Line Art Space'
Organizer: Yang Zhiguang Art Center
Curator: Associate Professor Jason He of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
Co-organizers: Oil painting faculty of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art and Panyu Association of Painting and Calligraphy

  

 
'Vicarious' (by Luis from U.S.)

 
This show features the combined creations of a new generation of artists from the oil painting faculty of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art and the University of California, Long Beach, U.S..

The works present the interesting distinctions between Oriental and Western culture – with the youth's surging vitality and passion shining like the morning sun at eight o'clock.

The opening ceremony was more than an art show actually, but a get-together of the oil painting veterans in Guangzhou and young and devoting students.

Bright, energetic, what described the morning sun at eight o'clock can be attributed to these young people and their art works showed in the exhibition room.

 

 
Jessica and her works 'Cut Off' (Lifeofguangzhou.com)

 
Jessica Lah is one of the exchanged students from the U.S.. Her works "Cut off" records the snapshot that modernization cut off the tradition sharply in a corner near her school in the University Town on southern Guangzhou.

"The expressway, the old temple, the car crashing coincidently in the old building, it was an amazing scene with the new and the old mixing together." Jessica said.

It's her second time to go to China after her visit to Beijing first, China's capital. "I like the country, both the modern parts and the old parts of China, which is developing so fast these years."

It is the second exhibition of the invitational art show of the Fine Art Center of Yang Zhiguang. More are expected in the near future.

 

 
'Putong' (By Deng Mingjie)

 

 

 An artist shares his opinion with visitors. (Lifeofguangzhou.com)

 

A man captured by the art works. (Lifeofguangzhou.com)

 
(By Ronald Li, Carrot Chan and Stephen Roach)

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Source: Lifeofguangzhou.com

Editor: Ronald Li