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Jun 2017

Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang, White Space Beijing

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We are delighted to announce the opening of the artist duo Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang’s first solo exhibition at WHITE SPACE BEIJING on June 3rd, 2017. This show will survey the artists’ installation-centered practice in recent years.

Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang’s creations focus on nuanced changes in nature. Through utilizing devices and mechanisms of materials science and engineering, the artists continuously explore human perceptions and emotions correlated to the physical world. Presented this time are a series of installations including long-term projects Sun Drawing and Rainbow. With an in-depth research into and application of optical elements, thermosensitive materials and mechanical design, Hao and Wang take natural elements such as light, gravity and time as their primary artistic materials, gradually lessening the importance of the technological aspect and renewing at once the viewer’s personal experience on the sensual dimension.

Jingfang Hao (b. 1985, Shandong) & Lingjie Wang (b. 1984, Shanghai) currently work and live in Mulhouse (France) and Shanghai. The artists graduated from Shanghai Maritime University in 2017 with B.E. in industrial design; obtained their MA and Diploma national supérieur d’expression plastique at École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Their recent exhibitions include 14th Biennale de Lyon: Floating Worlds, Lyon, France (2017); 62e Salon de Montrouge, le Beffroi, Montrouge, France (2017); Over the Rainbow, La Grande Place / Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, France (2016); The Second Nature, La Regionale 17, HeK Basel, Basel, Swizerland (2016); This Coming Summer Has Already Gone, MoCA Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2016); Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2015).

Apr 2017

Les Unités

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UNE PROPOSITION DE BENOÎT BILLOTTE AVEC LES ARTISTES JINGFANG HAO ET LINGJIE WANG, MICKAËL LIANZA, NICOLAS MULLER, ANNE-CHANTAL PITTELOUD.

Autour de cette thématique commune, chacun des artistes se plait à jouer de la polysémie de ce terme. Ils s’approprient la notion d’unité tant dans le domaine scientifique, architectural, linguistique que conceptuel, allant même jusqu’à redéfinir des formes d’unité ou des outils de mesure.
tous les jeudis à 18h30
4 mai : conférence de B. Frommel
11 mai : projection de films d’artiste
18 mai : nuit des bains

28.04.2017 — 20.05.2017
vernissage 27.04.2017 — 18h30

62th Salon de Montrouge

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La 62e édition du Salon de Montrouge s’inscrit dans le profond renouvellement initié en 2016 sous la direction artistique d’Ami Barak, l’un des catalyseurs les plus actifs de la scène artistique contemporaine et de Marie Gautier, co-directrice artistique.

Sur les 1500 m2 du Beffroi, photographies, sculptures, dessins, vidéos et installations se révèlent au grand public au sein d’une véritable exposition collective via 4 grands chapitres, un parti-pris impulsé par le regard curatorial d’Ami Barak et de Marie Gautier. Le 62e Salon de Montrouge consistera ainsi en une véritable cartographie de la jeune création contemporaine, dans une scénographie à la fois sophistiquée et élégante de Ramy Fischler et Vincent Le Bourdon, et une identité visuelle entièrement conçue par les jeunes graphistes Camille Baudelaire et Jérémie Harper.

Les 53 artistes de la sélection 2017, venus de France, de Belgique, d’Espagne, du Royaume-Uni, mais aussi du Brésil, du Togo, de Colombie, du Maroc, de Russie, de Corée du Sud et de Chine, ont été sélectionnés par Ami Barak et Marie Gautier, aidés d’un comité composé de personnalités de l’art contemporain. Ils seront soumis aux regards expérimentés d’un jury présidé par Bernard Blistène, directeur du Musée National d’Art Moderne, qui leur remettra, lors du vernissage le 26 avril prochain, les prix du Salon de Montrouge.

Face to face

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VIS-À-VIS
Maribor Art Gallery collection and 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine collection
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, Maribor
opening: Friday, 21 April 2017, at 19:00

The exhibition VIS-À-VIS establishes a relationship between artworks from the Maribor Art Gallery collection and the international contemporary art collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine from Metz in France. Maribor and Metz thus ally through artistic dialogues in different languages and in tackling different topics. The diverse artistic approaches generated from various time periods and geographical areas converge in many ways. Instead of answering questions, the exhibition broadens the integration of artworks, opens a space for new experience, and offers opportunities for deliberation and immersion. By pursuing universal aspects of the artistic message, it erases the apparent boundaries of language, space, and time. But above all, it desires inquisitive viewers who will take its outspokenness with them and bring it − to the streets, home, into being.

Artists: Nika Autor (SLO), Álvaro Barrios (COL), Sandi Červek (SLO), Ivan Dvoršak (SLO), Patrick Faigenbaum (FRA), Marco Godinho (PRT), Marie-Ange Guilleminot (FRA), Zdenko Huzjan (SLO), Hao Jingfang & Wang Lingjie (CHN/FRA), Petra Kapš (SLO), Stojan Kerbler (SLO), David Lamelas (ARG/FRA), Polona Maher (SLO), Claire Morel (FRA), Roman Opalka (POL/FRA), Alen Ožbolt (SLO), Ludvik Pandur (SLO), Zora Plešnar (SLO), Marko Pogačnik (SLO), Oto Rimele (SLO), Karin Sander (DEU), Mira Sanders (BEL), Simona Šuc (SLO), Fiona Tan (IDN/NLD), Sašo Vrabič (SLO), Ian Wilson (USA)

Exhibition curator: Andreja Borin
Exhibition design: Andreja Borin & Simona Šuc
Graphic design: Matej Koren Studio
Translations: Ksenija Vidic

More information about 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine collection: www.fraclorraine.org

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Nov 2016

The Second Nature

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The exhibition brings together works that deal with our surrounding environment. They reflect natural phenomena using digital and electronic technology, and bring the sensory properties of these phenomena into the exhibition space. Visitors can plunge into forests, clouds and fields of stars: into a “second nature” that the artists themselves have created. Our impression of the world, our perception of nature, is shaped by the digital character of our age. These artists show us how the natural world can be represented and reconstructed almost seamlessly using technology, and they appeal to both our humor and our senses.

Artists:

Jonas Baumann, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Philipp Gasser, Susanna Hertrich, Stefan Karrer, Thomas Lasbouygues, LAYTBEUIS, Philippe Lepeut, Philipp Madörin, Tim Otto Roth, Lingjie Wang & Jingfang Hao

Duration: 27.11.2016-08.01.2017

Over the Rainbow

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Clouds and other meteorological phenomena take centre stage at the Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis, for a celebration of the poetry of weather. Devised by 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, ‘Over the Rainbow’ presents an iconoclastic weather report, de-mythologising the contemporary art scene with a fresh, cross-disciplinary approach.

49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine presents its second exhibition at La Grande Place, as the guest institution of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Continuing the first show’s celestial theme, ‘Over the Rainbow’ explores the poetry of meteorology, deliberately ignoring the climatologists’ alarm bells to focus on creative artworks. ‘There is an urgent need for joyous creativity and dreams, right now,’ says Béatrice Josse, curator of the exhibition.

This resolutely positive approach draws on the perspectives of scientists, artists, amateurs and artisans, to reveal the secrets of our weather. At the heart of the Musée du Cristal, Lorraine artist Benoît Billotte continues his Sun line, traced in the first exhibition, while Yona Friedman and young Chinese artists Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang (based in nearby Mulhouse) work with a cloud and rainbow respectively.

Accompanying the artists’ work, ‘Over the Rainbow’ features items on exceptional loan from the archives of Météo-France, including remarkable watercolour plates by André des Gachons, painted between 1913 and 1951, representing the sky and cloudscapes at different times of day. Technology and artisanship come together in a theodolite from 1935, used to measure the height of clouds, and a blown-glass Christmas bauble in the form of a cumulus, from the Centre international d’art verrier in Meisenthal. A series of images of Épinal punctuates this unstinting dialogue between technology, art and artisanship, beneath the skies of the French department of Moselle.

Events

La Grande Place / Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis

Rue Coëtlosquet 57620 Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, France

Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Tuesday

Information: +33 3 87 06 40 04

Team

Curator : Béatrice Josse

Artists from the 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine collection, Metz: Benoît Billotte, Yona Friedman

Guest artists: Jingfang Hao et Lingjie Wang

Partners: Archives Météo-France ; Centre international d’art verrier, Meisenthal ; Musée de l’Image, Épinal