BEYOND THE BORDER - THE CHINESE-JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY PAINTING JOINT EXHIBITION (group)

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About Beyond the Border - The Chinese-Japanese Contemporary Painting Joint Exhibition

Beyond the Border - The Chinese-Japanese Contemporary Painting Joint Exhibition will be held in Tangram Art Center, M50 Art Area on Moganshan Road on September 7th 2010.

The exhibition is the first cooperation between Tangram Art Center and ZEIT-FOTO SALON which is famous for photograph and now has become the authoritative and influential art institute in Japan.

Since that, art works exhibited are all of the several well-known artists in China and Japan.

Common to the Japanese and Chinese paintings observed by Ishihara are the figurative motifs, subtle touches of the brush, and the adoption of close-ups that seemingly bulge out of the canvas. In addition to these three characteristics common to the paintings of Korehiko Hino, Kosuke Yamawaki, Zhou Tiehai, Zhong Biao, Ma Liuming, Ji Dachun, etc. are the special qualities of photography. Ever since the 1960s, photography has surpassed painting; moreover, the combative energy of trying to surmount such photography has produced today’s paintings. Perhaps photography here symbolizes the entirety of the visual image society, including television and the Internet, which have even gone beyond arguments about the superiority/inferiority of analog/digital. The history of the reception of painting and photography differs between China and Japan. Nevertheless, as they are both figurative societies, we can see in their works a universally common phenomenon that no longer recognizes differences there in.

The music played in Mr. Ishihara Etsuro’s Music Salon is from the iron plate records which all are Mr. Ishihara Etsuro’s collection all his life. It was the iron plate record that had been popular for a long time before the SP came out. The sounds remain quite real as they played on SP records (78 rpm) thatwere recorded around 1930.ZEIT-FOTO has been collecting these precious original SP records fornearly 40 years all over the world. An engineer who also loves musichas spent more than 10 years to complete the audio system with world class equalizer and amplifier most appropriate for this concert.Here, we proudly present our SP record concert for you to witness the very real sounds of the music geniuses from 1930's.A lot of excellent music, which was the classic handed down from one generation to another, sprang out during the early age.

On the concert, Mr. Ishihara Etsuro will share with audiences the precious sound burned on the iron plate records collected himself. Meanwhile, audiences will have the opportunity to have a look of artworks of Mr. Ishihara Etsuro’s unique musical equipment.