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| On its 40th anniversary Europalia will unravel China. Discover from 8th October 2009 to 14th February 2010 some 50 exhibitions and 450 events – music, opera, theatre, dance, film, literature,... Everything is organised around four main themes: Immortal China, Contemporary China, Colourful China and China and the World. Each theme is illustrated by one major exhibition which takes you to the heart of fascinating China. You can find the complete festival program on our website www.europalia.eu | |
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europalia.china | The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing
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| In ‘The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing’ the main curators of the exhibition, AI Weiwei and Luc Tuymans, analyse the relationship between the artist and the art market in China and in Belgium. Come and discover an impressive selection of contemporary artworks by 50 Chinese and Belgian artists. | |
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europalia.china | Son of Heaven
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| Jade, bronze, porcelain and brocade tell the story of Chinese rulers, from the first small kingdoms to the splendour of the Forbidden City. They illustrate the king’s and emperor’s quest for power, through sumptuous rituals honouring the ancestors, heaven and earth. 250 masterpieces from China’s most prestigious museums follow the first chiefs (4th to 3rd millennium) to the emperors of the last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911). | |
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europalia.china | The Orchid Pavilion The art of writing in China
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| Masterpieces from the Forbidden City and other great Chinese collections illustrate the origins, development and continuity of Chinese writing and calligraphy. The spotlight will be on The Orchid Pavilion, a historic event from the year 353, which has inspired all Chinese calligraphers from the Tang Dynasty to present day. | |
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europalia.china | Heart-made. The avant-garde of Chinese architecture
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| As part of Europalia China, this exhibition is an opportunity to discover the avant-garde of Chinese architecture, design and town planning. It reveals the cities and their architecture through five central themes. Living architecture, presenting recent or current projects, digital architecture, showing the future of cities by means of digital design. Architecture on video delivers computergenerated images and films made around a building or a city. Installation art and the art of sound, produced in close cooperation with architects and artists, offer a varied perspective of the cities. These last two themes complete and clearly reflect the innovative methodology of this exhibition and its multifaceted approaches. Greatly influenced by Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, Chinese architects and artists are true pioneers in their fields, actively responding to the rapidly changing society around them. | |
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europalia.china | Wang Gang - Interior Portraits
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| The chiaroscuro portraits of Wang Gang show us alternatives to the uniformisation of lifestyles in the modern world: two Chinese minorities, the Yi in the Sichuan and the Tibetans around Lhasa and in the Qinghai. Timeless pictures that are much closer to the classical European painting than to travel or ethnological photography. | |
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europalia.china | The Three Dreams of the Mandarin
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| Since the dawn of our era, a literary culture has developed in China, intended for a fairly broad public, including men of power (the mandarins) as well as a large number of intellectuals and artists. The aim of this exhibition, which is part of Europalia China, is to conjure up the world of the men of letters, rooted in an ancient tradition which they have continuously recreated and reinterpreted. Because of the richness and diversity of the period, this exhibition focuses on the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, between the 16th and the 18th centuries. | |
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europalia.china | The Silk Road A journey through life and death
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| Unspoilt nature and bustling towns formed the landscape of the Silk Road, along which the Xiongnus, the Tanguts, the Sogdians and many other peoples lived, travelled, and died. This exhibition will show their art, religions, cultures and range of thought, which have continuously influenced each other. Some 200 pieces – from monumental sculptures to the most sophisticated small pieces of jewellery – bear witness to the astonishing exchanges to which the Silk Road gave birth. | |
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