David A. Ross
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David A Ross is an author, blogger, educator and consultant. He graduated from Elliott School of International Affairs with a graduate degree in Chinese history and speaks three dialects of Chinese. He is a published author with over fifty internationally published articles and several book titles.-Amazon
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Bill Viola
Im Rahmen des Reformationsjubiläums 2017 zeigen die Deichtorhallen Hamburg eine gross angelegte Ausstellung des amerikanischen Medienkünstlers Bill Viola (*1951 in New York) mit 13 seit 1992 entstandenen Videoinstallationen. Sein Werk beschäftigt sich mit den zentralen Themen des menschlichen Lebens Geburt, Emotion, Spiritualität, Liebe und Tod. Das übergreifende Interesse des Künstlers gilt dabei insbesondere den mystischen Traditionen von Christentum, Zenbuddhismus und Islam. Eine solche spirituelle Offenheit, die stets auch die Körper der Betrachterinnen und Betrachter als ein Medium für Grenzerfahrungen adressiert, spiegelt sich in allen Videoinstallationen Bill Violas wider, die durch ihre einprägsame Aura bestechen. Zuweilen ist ihre Bildästhetik in Ultra-Slow-Motion stark an die Ikonographe des Mittelalters oder der Renaissance angelehnt urgewaltig und zugleich formal höchst anspruchsvoll vermitteln diese einzigartigen Bilder die Erfahrung des Erhabenen und Spirituellen mit den Mitteln der Bildsprache des globalisierten 21. Jahrhunderts. Exhibition: Deichtorhallen, Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Hamburg, Germany (02.06.-10.09.2017).
Cai Guo-Qiang
My Stories of Painting is the first exhibition that will focus on Cai's long journey of painting in terms of two parallel paths. The first traces his decades of restless exploration in painting, presenting over a hundred works from different periods, of varying scale, and across various mediums - many of which are shown for the first time. The trajectory begins with his time in China: watercolours and oil paintings, assignments from his student days, experimental paintings, and oil paintings with gunpowder; followed by his time in Japan: paintings created purely with gunpowder, and gunpowder drawings for explosion events; it then moves on to his time in New York and the vast global stage - paintings reflecting his unique challenge to the issue of painting through his consistent artistic methodology, including recent pieces following his return to creating independent gunpowder paintings in the past few years. Evolving from black gunpowder to color gunpowder, this new stage registers the artist's unrestrained pursuit of his childhood dream to become a painter, as well as his confrontation with the integral challenges of contemporary painting. Exhibition: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (30.09.2016-01.05.2017).
