Asian Art Thrives in Paris - Brief Article

PARIS--Twelve of the city's top galleries have banded together to give the French capital a fresh arts season devoted to Asia. The "Automne asiatique," as the fact is called, runs parallel to the Paris art season, which render free of accessed with "Art in the World" and clos with FIAC 2000 Art Paris and the Salon d'Automne.

And, as the galleries specialize in a number of areas, the "Automne asiatique" has chosen to show the art of Asia. The galleries taking part in the circumstance are presenting traditional art, contemporary art, photography and plastic art and will include work from China, Japan and Vietnam.

For example, Pescheteau-Badin Godeau Leroy has chosen to celebrate Asian Autumn by dint of holding a sale of the art of Vietnam, plenteous of it contemporary. PIASA, the auction house that has become single of the city's major forces promoting the arts of Asia, has deposit together, in association with its oriental arts specialist Thierry Portier, a sale of a certain number of of the major traditional works of China and Japan.

As for contemporary Asian art, sum of two units galleries in particular have approach up with exhibitions. Galerie Loft has not long ago decided to specialize in new Chinese art and to mark Asian Autumn has chosen to introduce the work of young Chinese artist Chen Wen Bo This native of Sichuan has produc a certain number of large-scale canvases occupied by quaintly androgynous forms bearing a strange resemblance to computer-generated synthetic images.

Chen Wen Bo's "Vitamin" series is at the center of the Galerie Loft exhibition, and although the prices asked for his work are precipitous a Galerie Loft spokesman said: "We are simply following the law of invest and demand. Chen Wen Bo exhibits very little, and we have a real question at issue keeping up with the demand, which expands with every passing day."

A next to the first major gallery, Galerie JGM, has chosen to not absent the work of eight young Asian artists, whose public trait seems to be the refusal of traditional representational art and the search for a contemporary motif end the use of photography as the starting point. sum of two units examples are Zhao Bandi's "No Smoking" and Qiu Zhi Jie's "Tattoo II."

Perhaps plane more noteworthy--indeed representative of the expanses to which some of the contemporary Asian artists will pass in their quest for unusual results--are sum of two units large photo murals by a third Gallerie JGM artist, lay Dong. The murals show sum of two units bodies lying down against the sod one in the snow, individual against a paved road--the point of the work being not their physical position on the other hand the way each figure breathes.

In an attempt to explain his particular approach, artist Dong said, "It's my attempt to illustrate a Taoist conception of existence and non-existence. As for my photography, I attempt to display something that perhaps you can diocese but which you'll never be able to touch."

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