Light years ahead
German artist Dieter Jung's solo art show The Invisible/Visible runs until Friday at Today Art Museum.
The 67-year-old is widely considered a pioneer of new media art, especially work done with digital holograms.
In his Beijing debut, he applies lights and laser beams as paint, and prisms, glass and screens as the canvas, "creating a garden of light luminous with flowing colors," says curator Victoria Lu.
What is not art
This year's Beijing 798 Art Festival will be held from Sept 28 to Oct 18 at the world-famous area in northern Beijing.
A great variety of programs will be on view, including a What Is Not Art group show of work by 50 Chinese and international artists; an outdoor sculpture exhibition; a screening of major Chinese independent films of the 1990s; videos by university students, rock concerts, small theater musicals and seminars on art trends and art markets.
The 798 Art Zone is home to at least 300 art studios, galleries, theaters, cafes and shops.
In 2006, the 798 Art Zone was designated one of 10 areas for creative industries by the Beijing municipal government.
Learning all things Chinese
Expats in Beijing now have a chance to network in the name of Chinese culture.
On the night of Oct 9, the China Great Wall Society and publishing company Commercial Press will hold a "Chinese Culture Evening" at the Great Wall.
Program highlights include climbing the Juyong Pass section of the Great Wall, learning Chinese folk arts, savoring Chinese tea and typical cuisine, and enjoying traditional and ethnic music and dance shows.
Oil with a modern look
A forward-looking oil art exhibition Expansion and Fusion will be held from Sept 28 to Oct 9 at the National Art Museum of China.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture and China Oil Painters Society, the so-called "academic research exhibition" will present around 160 oil works picked from 4,000 entries from across the country.
The exhibition comprises three sections, dealing respectively with portraits, landscapes and imaginative and abstract paintings, according to China Oil Painters Society chairman Zhan Jianjun.
It is "aimed at promoting works that are influenced by Western modernism and artists who endeavor to combine Chinese aesthetics and modern techniques," Zhan says.
Editor: Liu Fang
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