Decosterconcept
Mongolian sartorialists and military simplicity in an avant-garde collection Decoster Concept is a new design project created by Ziggy Chen (Chinese: Chen Xiang), a well-known fashion designer from Shanghai and founder of Decoster. Decoster Concept is a high level, conceptual label launched in the second half of 2011. The creative research behind the project, the attentive [...]
Beijing Taxi
“Beijing Taxi” – documentary, 75′, 2009 – documentary’s extract – produced by Invisibile Film. An encounter with Beijing’s taxi drivers before the Olympics, a dialogue peppered with many anecdotes and personal life experiences; a view from lower down, from a travelling car’s window, to face the latest dream of today’s China. The taxi drivers’ world as [...]
Daode, documentary project
Synopsis The film tells the story of a pure man’s achievements. Guoqing arrives in Italy on a personal mission to spread in Europe the ancient tradition of Chinese reflexology. He pursues his aims by a strict discipline and a simple life. As a taoist monk of the old times, “he knows the Path” and his life [...]
Alice in the City
“Sire, I am from the other country. We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun […] The districts of this city could correspond to the whole spectrum of diverse feelings that one encounters by chance in everyday life.” Ivan Chtcheglov Urban wonderlands How many times while wandering in [...]
Liyuan Library in Huairou
Nestled in a wood, Liyang Library is a corner of peace in a small village of Huairou, on the outskirts of Beijing, just two hours away from the capital’s busy urban life. Designed by Li Xiaodong Studio, the library is a modern complement to a countryside village. In a booming country where rural life often [...]
The Same
Lin Tianmiao’s presents a thread-covered apocalypse at Beijing BCA After two years of absence from the art scene, Lin Tianmiao is back for the largest solo exhibition of her career with new works at Beijing Center for the Arts (BCA). As one of the most important Chinese contemporary female artists, she’s renowned internationally for her ability to transform threads [...]
Shangxia
European luxury and traditional Chinese craftsmanship in a Shanghai boutique In a bustling metropolis like Shanghai, Shang Xia‘s boutique strikes a balance between “human and nature”, a millenary value of Chinese culture that often appears to be lost in the country’s economic rush. Wood and sandstone are combined together with high-tech fiber to create a corner [...]
Red Star – Alcohol for the masses
In 1998, when I came to study in China for the first time, I felt a little bit lost in translation. At that time, my guides to the Beijing experience were “Gubo” and “Palanka”, two Canadian guys who were the main characters of an 80s Chinese textbook, named “Practical Chinese Reader”. Thanks to them, I [...]
Steve Jobs is dead. What about Chinese creativity?
When Steve Jobs died – and tons of shanzhai copies (-> fakes) of his biography flooded every street book stall – the atavic question of creativity made in China rose again, especially on weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform which is nowadays main stage for every hot debate. If you want to know the whole story, I [...]
Tha Age of Enlightenment
The national museum, one of the main building on Tian’anmen square has re-opened its doors after 4 years of renovation. Its total floor space is around 200,000sqm, over 3 times more than the Louvre. In the frame of a bilateral cooperation between Germany and China, for the grand opening almost 600 art pieces have been [...]