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Indepth Arts News:
"Bai Yiluo and Movana Chen: Mixed Media and Body Containers on Display at The Opposite House"
2009-03-21 until 2009-06-21
Pekin Fine Arts
Beijing, ,
CN China
The Opposite House in partnership with Pekin Fine Arts has begun exhibiting new art works by artists Bai Yilou and Movana Chen in the hotel's Atrium. A native of Luoyang, in China's Henan Province, Bai Yiluo exhibits Camouflage Jackets. 70 individual men's coats are on display, each pieced together from the delicate pages of supermarket advertising supplements. On display as well is a single men's jacket constructed from black and white passport photos stitched together with red and black thread.
Movana Chen, from Shantou in Guangdong Province, exhibits Body Containers. This 4 piece mixed media installation is comprised of shredded magazine pages hand-knit together to form human shapes. Pekin Fine Arts promotes their artists' work with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com .
The exhibition in The Opposite House Atrium runs until the end of June.
About The Opposite House
The first hotel by Swire Hotels, The Opposite House is an intriguing urban hotel in the heart of Beijing and a part of The Village at Sanlitun. In addition to its permanent art collection, The Opposite House holds a series of temporary exhibits highlighting innovative works by young artists in its Atrium in support of Chinese contemporary art. The permanent collection includes works of art and design by Chinese artists living in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK.
About Pekin Fine Arts
A Beijing-based contemporary art gallery located in Cao Changdi Village, in an exciting new artist's district, in a 600 square meter newly constructed building designed by Beijing-based architect/artist, Ai Weiwei.
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Chen Movana
Featured by Pekin Fine Arts
Title: "Body Container" , 2005
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