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Invitation and Information of Opening of Boxes Art Museum

EXHIBITION1:A Very Fulfilled Life—Pierrick Sorin

At 4 pm Sunday afternoon, Sep 28, 2017, well-known French video artist Pierrick Sorin will open solo exhibition, A Very Fulfilled Life—Pierrick Sorin at Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Boxes Museum. This is OCT Boxes Museum’s Grand Opening exhibition. OCT’s Boxes Museum is entirely built and financed by the OCT Group, a non-profit public benefit organization operated and managed by The Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Overseas Chinese Town Boxes Museum attempts to bring a strict international standard of spatial dimension to Shunde area, giving the city a new cultural calling card, bringing new energy to the Pearl River Delta Area’s cultural ecosystem.

In his earlier creative work, Pierrick Sorin was known for his sense of humor, arrangement of plot, and for delving deeply into his life to bravely pick apart what he saw. From the late 1980’s, Sorin has been seen as the protagonist in most of his short films. At the time, he was seen as we see the first ‘selfie’ stars today. The largest piece in this exhibition was created in 1994 as large-scale video installation A Very Fulfilled Life, consisting of 16 pieces of video documenting original artist performances. This artwork represented a pivotal point in Sorin’s artist career.

Pierrick Sorin began in 2013 to use holographic images in his artwork. Artwork Aquarium is his most famous video installation made into a magical holographic theatre. Projecting his own image onto very realistic backdrop elements, we see art in an aquarium, the artist dancing satirically amongst a school of fish. In his most recent works For My Mother and Hennessy, From Tradition to Innovation, this latter entrusted by Hennessy as its 250 anniversary celebratory artwork; the artist takes his holographic technical abilities to their extreme.

Pierrick Sorin artworks are collected at the Palais de Tokyo, Foundation Cartier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tate Modern (London), Guggenheim Museum (New York), and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He has collaborated long term with Opéra de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Teatro alla Scala (Italy) and other opera houses as playwright and director. He has collaborated also with Chanel (with photographer Jean-Paul Goude), Cartier, Renault, Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, Galleries Lafayette and other famous brands. In Nantes (west of France), the City Government is now constructing a Pierrick Sorin Art Museum, scheduled to open two years from now.

This exhibition showcases 16 video installation artworks created between 1992 and 2017. This exhibition is hosted by Overseas Chinese Town Boxes Museum, co-hosted by Beijing Amy Li Gallery, curated by the Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, consulting with Art and Culture Innovation Research and Development Center of Sun Yat-sen University, with assistance from Shenzhen Zhangshangmingzhu Culture and Media Co., Ltd.

This exhibition is in gratitude to large-scale support from Shunde District Peoples Government, Consulate General of the Republic of France in Guangzhou, and Hennessy Company. This exhibition will run through December 12, 2017, with free access to the public.

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EXHIBITION2:

Academy of Fine Art ‘Star’ Graduate Artwork Selection

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On Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 at 4 pm, art exhibition Field 2—Academy of Fine Art ‘Star’ Graduate Artwork Selection will open to the public at Boxes Art Museum at Overseas Chinese Town (OCT). This is one of Boxes Art Museum at Overseas Chinese Town’s first exhibitions.

OCT’s Boxes Art Museum is entirely built and financed by the OCT Group, a non-profit public benefit organization operated and managed by The Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Overseas Chinese Town Boxes Museum attempts to bring a strictly international standard of spatial dimension to Shunde area, giving the city a new cultural calling card, bringing new energy to the Pearl River Delta Area’s cultural ecosystem.

Field refers to a basic working methodology of contemporary art, emphasizing how art thinks about and reflects real environments and social living. It emphasizes art concepts that effectively integrate with regional cultures, social manners, cultural context, and present discourses. Contemporary art is the avant-garde of culture. It can engage with what’s happening ‘contemporarily’. It is active in experimentally answering present and future times. It is an attitude different from everyday life, with an aesthetic of exploration. ‘Field’ influences our spiritual bearing and cultural pursuits; shaping individuals and society in the form of aesthetic and concept. Field is a kind of artwork, figuring an environment’s aura, transcending the common, standing out from the crowd; these each serve as operational ideals.

This exhibition is hosted by Guangdong Shunde Overseas Chinese Town (OCT), Industrial Development Co., Ltd., produced by OCT Boxes Museum, with Feng Hui as the chief planner, curated by The Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and co-organized by Guangzhou Tianci Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Prof. Chen Ke of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Prof. Jiang Jie of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Prof. Shen Lieyi of China Academy of Art and Prof. Jin Jiangbo of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts are invited as referees. 15 young artists are invited to residencies and then exhibitions, including: Chen Kancheng, Cui Yi, Deng Jingfeng, Du Chunfeng, Feng Xiaofeng, He Yibo, He Tao, Lin Wanshan, Li Qiuyi, Liu Xiao, Ma Dongyang, Ouyang Sulong, Tan Yingjie, Yu Hai and Zhou Qihan.

Over the next year, these fifteen public artworks will be installed in various places throughout Shunfeng Mountain Wetland Park. A selection of these works will remain as part of the museum’s permanent collection. The separate attractions of both art and wetland environment blend together, drawing attention to the relationships between art, nature and rapid urban development. The core concept of Overseas Chinese Town and all curators involved has been to bring a lively contemporary art environment to the local district, satisfying the undying urge of the people for enriched cultural living.

This exhibition is in gratitude to Shunde District Government, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, and Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.