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半边天: 中国女性艺术家群展暨新书发布 | Half the Sky: Chinese Women Artists
时间：2016年04月22日 作者：阿特 来源：红门
红门画廊诚挚邀请您于2016年4月23日下午3时前往红门画廊出席 “半边天: 中国女性艺术家” 群展开幕式暨新书发布会。本次展览开幕与澳大利亚作家的新书《半边天: 与中国女性艺术家的对话》发布会同时举行，届时澳大利亚新任驻华大使将出席主持开幕和发布仪式。
Red Gate Gallery is delighted to invite you to the exhibition opening for
Half the Sky: Chinese Women Artists
and book launch "Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China" by Luise Guest. The Australian Ambassador to China, HE Ms Jan Adams PSM will open the exhibition and launch the book.
Half the Sky: Chinese Women Artists
and book launch "Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China" by Luise Guest. The Australian Ambassador to China, HE Ms Jan Adams PSM will open the exhibition and launch the book.
| 参展艺术家 Participating Artists |
冰逸、卜桦、崔岫闻、董媛、高平、
高蓉、韩娅娟、黄静远、何成瑶、
李婷婷、林菁菁、马嬿泠、
陶艾民、肖鲁、谢其、周宏斌
Bing Yi, Bu Hua, Cui Xiuwen,
Dong Yuan, Gao Ping, Gao Rong,
Han Yajuan, Huang Jingyuan,
He Chengyao, Li Tingting,
Lin Jingjing, Ma Yanling,
Tao Aimin, Xiao Lu,
Xie Qi, Zhou Hongbin
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开幕时间: 2016年4月23日下午 3 - 5时
展览日期: 2016年4月23日 - 5月8日
展览地址: 红门画廊 崇文门东大街9号东便门角楼
Opening Date: 23 April, Saturday, 3 - 5 pm
Exhibition Dates: 23 April - 8 May 2016
Exhibition Venue: Red Gate Gallery
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半边天：中国女性艺术家
毛泽东曾说，“妇女能顶半边天”。
这次展览将展出超过15位来自中国大陆的女性艺术家的作品，而他们的作品正好引证了这句话。
这次展览的灵感来自一本刚出版的书《半边天：与中国女性艺术家的对话》。
这本书今年2月在悉尼由 Piper 出版社发行，记录了澳大利亚艺术作家 Luise Guest 与30多个女艺术家，在北京、上海和杭州的对话。
值此机会，北京的观众可一睹一些书中描述的艺术作品。
在过去五年的中国旅行中，Luise Guest 留意到画廊中很少展出女性艺术家的作品，她指出，
“尽管国际社会对中国当代艺术相当迷恋，众多的策展、画册、书籍和文章中，女性艺术家的故事，仍还没有充分被重视。
我希望能让更多人接触到这些艺术家，了解他们的生活和他们的艺术实践”。
书中所提及的艺术家们，有的是从一个动荡和改革开放时期掘起、现年50多岁的艺术家；有的是80年代出生、受着流行文化以及消费文化影响下成长的艺术家；
有的是更年轻的、在一个新一代中国社会中成长的艺术家。他们既熟悉网络中的国际艺术界，同时亦常思索研究中国历史和传统，如何影响他们的想法。
这次在香港和北京的展览以及新书的出版都揭示了这些艺术家的多样性，以及这些艺术家之间深厚的关系。不论他们以绘画、影像、多媒体或雕塑等媒介来呈示个人看法，
都可看作一种相同的视觉语言，去展示现今中国社会的复杂性。是时候让这些艺术家为我们带来一些新冲击，让他们的声音被听到，让他们的工作得到更广泛的关注。
关于新书《半边天:与中国女性艺术家的对话》
一本关于中国当代女艺术家的精彩著作，由澳大利亚白兔收藏机构 (White Rabbit Collection) 教育和研究部总监 Luise Guest 撰写，澳大利亚 Piper 出版社出版。
为了研究和采访书中的32位中国女艺术家，Luise Guest 多年游历中国各地，她指出，“中国当代艺术不同于世界各地任何一种当代艺术。”
中国的当代艺术中心生产着这个时代最有意思和最吸引人的作品，但是其中的故事却还没有被充分地挖掘：女性艺术家的故事。
毛主席曾说，“妇女能顶半边天。”而书中的女性艺术家，通过他们的艺术和生活，正在印证着这句话。
关于策展人和作者
艺术教授、作家、学者、以及表现欠佳的中文学生，Luise Guest 多年从事中国艺术的写作。
她的博客 An Art Teacher in China (一个艺术教师在中国) 记录着她在“中央帝国”的历险记。
她的文章和访谈已被多家线上和传统媒体刊登发表，包括 Creative Asia、Daily Serving、燃点、The Art Life、The Culture Trip 以及 The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art。
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Half the Sky: Chinese Women Artists
It was Mao Zedong who said, ‘Women hold up half the sky’.
An exhibition of works by more than 15 artists from mainland China revealsa group of diverse women doing just that. Unusually,
the exhibition emergedfrom the publication of a book, ‘Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artistsin China’.
Released in Sydney by Piper Press in February, it’s based on Australian art writer Luise Guest’s conversations with more than 30 artists,
in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Now, audiences in Beijing have an opportunity to discover a number of the artists featured in the book.
In travels to China over five years, Guest began to notice a surprising absence of work by women in galleries.
She says, ‘Despite the continued international fascination with Chinese contemporary art, manifested in so many curated exhibitions,
catalogues, books and articles, there were important stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists.
I wanted to make the work of these artists accessible to a wider audience, and to provide a space for them to talk about their lives and their art practice.’
From those artists, now in their 50s, who emerged in the tumultuous period of Reform and Opening, to a generation born in the 1980s,
influenced by popular culture and increasing consumerism, to a rising generation of much younger artists coming to adulthood in a completely transformed China,
the artists featured in the book and exhibition are all completely at home in a post-internet international art world. Yet all are conscious of how Chinese history and tradition inform their thinking.
The exhibition that accompanies the launch of the book in Beijing reveals the diversity of these artists, as well as the deep connections between them.
Whether they work in painting or video, digital media or sculpture, each is engaged on a personal quest to invent and develop a visual language with which to convey the complex social realities of today’s China.
Now that the tropes of Pop-inspired Mao imagery seem tired, it is time for their voices to be heard, and their work to be seen more widely.
About the book Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China
A gorgeous new publication on contemporary women artists in China from Australian art publisher Piper Press and author Luise Guest, Director of Education and Research,White Rabbit Collection.
Guest travelled many times to China to research and interview the thirty-two women artists presented in Half the Sky & believes‘ contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.’ The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time but there arefascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, ‘Women hold up half the sky.’ This book reveals the work and lives of thirty-two artists who are doing just that.
About the Curator and the Author
Art teacher, writer, researcher, and bad student of Chinese, Luise Guest writes regularly about contemporary Chinese art. Her blog, An Art Teacher in China, documents her adventures in the Middle Kingdom. Her articles and interviews have been published in a range of online and print art journals and web sites including Creative Asia, Daily Serving, Randian, The Art Life, The Culture Trip and the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
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