Shanghai update
Whew! Our first week of installation for Shanghai is over, and week two is about to begin. All of the objects have arrived safely and the galleries are beginning to really take shape. The exhibition crew has been busy condition checking artwork, hanging paintings, dressing mannequins, and dealing with all of the assorted surprises that emerge with a project of this complexity. Here a few behind the scenes images from the past week.
A detail of the neon tube components of Shen Fan's installation "Landscape—Commemorating Huang Binhong—Small Scroll."
Are they straight or not? Preparator and lighting designer Evan Kierstead hangs two pairs of calligraphy scrolls by Zhao Zhiqian in Osher gallery.
Propaganda posters are prepared for framing in the museum's conservation center.
What’s scheduled for this week? More paintings, ceramic city-scapes and lots and lots of bricks!
6 Responses to “Shanghai update”
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erica on February 5th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Love the photo of the Shen Fan piece!
Ana on February 6th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Elsewhere on the web, a story of traditional Shanghai music makes a great backdrop for reading your posts! [associated by coincidence with opening your latest newsletter this morning]
Here it is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cwxgt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005xm2j
Is there a musical backdrop of the exhibition?
nico on February 7th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Hi Ana, thanks for the links! We’ve got some great programming coming up related to Shanghai music–check the Shanghai sounds section of the site: http://www.asianart.org/shanghai.htm
And I’m really looking forward to this, although it’s probably a little more SF-related: http://www.shanghaicelebration.com/programs-date.htm#june-forbidden
Diehl Art on February 9th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
What an interesting installation! Would love to see the neon tube piece!
Ana on February 11th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
My turn to thanks! Of course, distance does make a difference, but quite often this is not an obvious limitation – your latest post, nico, puts it in better words then I could.
Nancy on February 12th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I loved this piece – not just the lights but the musical sounds. I asked the guards if the museum makes them to Tai Chi in front of it every morning. Totally poker faced, one of the guards replied, “No Yoga.”
HA! Now the secret is out. I have a great visual of all of you, doing forward bends to the chime sounds. Seriously, it’s a great piece and a great show. I hope you like my more extended review when I finally pull it together. My only critique is that I would have liked to have seen some photos of opium addicts and bound feet as a more pointed contrast between “old” and “new” Shanghai. I realize that might have thrown parts of the exhibit off balance, but I felt that a photo of “bound feet” would have been a fascinating visual comparison with the posters of the New Woman of the 1920’s and 1930’s Shanghai.