Leandro Erlich: The Confines of the Great Void
The world-renowned artist Leandro Erlich's solo exhibition "Leandro Erlich: The Confines of the Great Void" has occupied the entire exhibition space of CAFAM. It is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date. The exhibition displays 20 interactive art installations that span Erlich's 25-year artist career, with most of the exhibits showing in China for the first time. The exhibition is another important solo exhibition of the artist's, following his solo exhibition at ZKM in 2015 and the solo exhibition at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo in 2017.
Exhibition Time: 2019/07/11 — 2019/08/25
Venue: Exhibition Halls from 1st to 4th Floors, CAFAM
The Great Beauty of Art: Art Creation and Art Educational Influence of CAFA
May 30th Movement, first draft of relief sculpture (part)
Wang Linyi, 56x95x9cm, 1955
Collection of CAFAM
Since CAFA was founded in 1918, it has seized the pulse of the times, with generations of the academy's artists creating many classic artworks at the important historical moments. CAFA's artistic creation and the spirit of exploration is influential in China, thus it has become an academic icon of Chinese art education. Upon the one-year anniversary of President Xi Jinping's reply to the eight old professors' letter, the exhibition selects important artworks and projects of CAFA artists since the academy's foundation, to reflect the influence of CAFA in public art education in China.
Time: 2019/08/30 - 2019/10/07
Venue: Exhibition Room B, 3rd Floor, CAFA Art Museum
Making Plastic Arts for New China: Exhibition of Zhou Lingzhao at His One-Hundred-Year-Old Birthday
Unity of the World, color painting (part)
71x79cm, 1959
Collection of CAFAM
Zhou Lingzhao (1919-), prominent modern Chinese artist, designer and art educationist. He is one of the main founders of New China's design and mural painting disciplines, and one of the chief designers of New China's national image. Mr. Zhou has been teaching in CAFA since 1948. It is fair to say that his artist career witnesses the development of the People's Republic of China as well as CAFA. At the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the New China, and the beginning of CAFA's new hundred-year journey, the exhibition is a tribute to Mr. Zhou's artist career, an in-depth study into his works, and a great retrospective and commemoration of his century-old artist life.
Time: 2019/08/30 - 2019/10/07
Venue: Exhibition Room B, 2nd Floor, CAFAM
Research Exhibition of Liu Xian's Works
Gorky, Liu Xian, wood engraving
25x32cm, 1951
Collection of CAFAM
Donation of Wang Renyin, Liu Xian's daughter, in 2018
Liu Xian (1915-1990), pioneer of the emerging wood engraving movement in China, representative of wood engraving's Yan'an school. Under the influence and guidance of Mr. Lu Xun, Mr. Liu devoted himself in revolutionary literature and art cause in his youth. He viewed art more higly than life, decided to study the traditional western wood engraving and persisted in it for life, created over a thousand wood engraving works, and played a great part in the introduction and dissemination of wood engraving in China. The exhibition will take the representative themes of Mr. Liu's works as an entry-point, explores Mr. Liu's unique position in 20th century Chinese engraving art, and displays the tender yet powerful spirit of public art education in his works.
Time: Early 2019/09 - 2019/10/07
Venue: 4th Floor, CAFAM
"1+1" Polish Lithography Exhibition
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Łukasz Butowski, Lithography
200x70cm, 2019
Poland is a country known for its lithography. From government to university, lithography is attached great importance. The International Print Biennial held in Poland is world famous. Located in the middle ground between the east and the west, Poland has an inclusive culture and national identity. In certain scientific and artistic aspects, China has a leading position at the international stage, but in order to continue developing, China needs to seek new resources, to dig into its history while expanding abroad. The exhibition will introduce the lithography exhibitions of two academies of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and Kraków, bring inspiration to print artists in CAFA and China, and promote friendship between Chinese and Polish people.
Time: Early 2019/09 - 2019/10/07
Venue: Exhibition Room A, 3rd Floor, CAFAM
Da Vinci and His Art Community
Self Portrait, Leonardo da Vinci (claimed)
1501-1510, tempera on poplar panel,
60x44cm, private collection
This year marks the 500 anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death. His legacy transcends time and space and national boundaries, and is brimmed with eternal charm. Commemorative activities are held around the globe. The exhibition will not only showcase precious originals of Da Vinci's, but also exhibit works by Da Vinci's students and followers. Da Vinci and his art community's paintings will form a dialogue of different dimensions, from which we can confront with the master's originals, further understand the mentoring relationship between the master and his followers, and gain an insight of Da Vinci's art and his influence on later generations.
Time: Early 2019/09 - 2019/12/10
Venue: Exhibition Room A, 2nd Floor, CAFAM
Phenakistoscope: International Exhibition of Animation Art from Five Prestigious Art Schools
This is the first international exhibition that mixes academic animation, avant-garde art, experimental video and new media art in China. The exhibition will showcase the Phenakistoscope Animation Art Award's shortlisted works by five art schools, study and display the themes of contemporary animation art, application of avant-garde animation technologies and trends of animation visual design, manifest the blending characteristics of animation visual art under the globalization context. Meanwhile, international animation art masters will engage in dialogues with emerging animation artists through lectures and symposiums. It will construct a platform for animation art communications that drive creativity in motion art and culture.
Time: 2019/09/15 - 2019/10/07
Venue: 1st Floor, CAFAM
Traveling Exhibitions:
Pioneering: Chinese Artists Abroad in France and Chinese Modern Art (1911-1949)
The exhibition is the first large-scale academic exhibition curated by CAFAM following the 100-year anniversary of CAFA, and is supported by the National Art Fund. The exhibition borrows over 200 works from the public and private institutions and private collectors, showcases the academic journey of over 50 artists who have studied in France. The exhibition is divided into four parts, to comprehensively display the historical nodes of the transformation of Chinese art in the first half of 20th century, the path of the pioneers that lead Chinese art from tradition to modernity and help facilitate the big picture of the 20th century Chinese art.
Time: 2019/6/18 - 2019/9/1
Venue: Long Musuem Chongqing
CAFAM Langfang
CAFA Art Museum Collection Series·Research Exhibition of Ming and Qing Dynasty Paintings and Calligraphies
Clouds and Water Heading Home (part), Shen Zhou, Ming Dynasty
Color on paper, 164x33cm
Collection of CAFAM
The exhibition is based on CAFAM's rich collection of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphies. CAFAM aims to display a regular collection exhibition that knowledgeably shows the development process of ancient Chinese art history by selecting the best works from different era in its collection, meticulously curating the exhibition and blending in profound academic thinking. The exhibited works can be dated back as early as Song and Yuan dynasties and as late as end of Qing Dynasty, spanning nearly a thousand years. It will be a significant exhibition to study the formation of the tradition of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphies, and an important attempt of CAFAM to explore the form of regular collection exhibition.
Time: 2019/09 — 2020/08
Venue: CAFAM Langfang
CAFAM Langfang
CAFA Art Museum Collection Series·Works of Ren Bonian
Portrait of He Yicheng (part), Ren Yi, color on paper
Size of painting: 131.5 x 46cm, 1877
Collection of CAFAM
Ren Bonian is a representative and master of "Shanghai School", and has great influence on modern Chinese portrait and bird-and-flower painting. CAFAM curates this exhibition based on its collection. It aims to study Ren Bonian's mentorship relations and study course, display Ren Bonian's and his mentors and students' works together, study the artist who lived in Shanghai of a special time, the juxtoposition of oriental and western cultures and of traditional and modern civilizations, and reveal Ren's irreplaceable position in modern Chinese art history. The exhibition is CAFAM's first concentrative exhibition of Ren Bonian's works of its collection.
Time: 2019/09 - 2019/12
Venue: CAFAM Langfang
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