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SHAN SHAN SHENG:
ABACUS
WORK DEBUTS AT OPEN - VENICE
SCULPTURE EXHIBITION-ABACUS MOVES THEN TO MIAMI DECEMBER 1
Abacus 1046-771 BC Western Zhou Dynasty
(From the Chinese ancient invention series)
will be on display
along with her other works at the
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, as part of Sotheby’s Contemporary
Chinese Art Exhibition.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 500 Brickell Key
Drive on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami. Exhibition on 1st and 5th
Floor. View the work here on line. View
SHAN SHAN SHENG
Exhibition Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Fall 2007
Abacus
1046-771 BC
(Western Zhou Dynasty)
from "Chinese
ancient invention series"
Visual Artist Shan Shan Sheng
debuts her site-specific sculpture
Abacus at Venice 's OPEN,
an International Exhibition of
Sculptures and Installations. This tenth edition of OPEN will be held at the
same time as the Venice Film Festival, from August 30th to October 14th 2007.
OPEN is a series of open-air
exhibition spaces at Venice Lido. The OPEN Exhibition gives
space to artistic creativity from
all over the world.
Shan Shan Sheng
represents both China
and the USA in the OPEN exhibition.
Internationally renowned for her paintings and glassworks, Shan Shan Sheng
mines her heritage with Abacus, part of her larger Chinese
Inventions Series , reviving often overlooked objects from the past.
In Abacus, Sheng's
vivid brushstrokes of color are suspended in translucent glass. Abacus
is a
glass sculpture recalling the
ancient Chinese counting machine. Sheng recasts the abacus as a
kind of vast, pre-digital computer
and evokes the constant numbering of modern life.
Abacus
1046-771 BC (Western
Zhou Dynasty)
from "Chinese
ancient invention series"
It is
an outdoor glass sculpture, measuring 4.5 m long and 2.2 m high, with 63 glass
balls supported by stainless steel rods. Throughout her work, Sheng
transforms Eastern and Western motifs into striking paintings and sculpture,
often re-interpreting ancient symbols into minimal, contemporary forms.
Sheng's work invites viewers to see through time and material, true to her
refreshing, integrated vision of art and life. Sheng is the first Chinese
visual artist to be invited to collaborate with Venetian Glass experts.
Sheng
discovered in Venice a way to translate her large-scale Abstract Expressionist
paintings into new forms. Reversing the trajectory of Marco Polo, the Venetian
explorer who visited China and wrote about his encounters, Sheng collaborates
closely with the master glassblowers of Murano to mix and arrange pigments for
sculptures and installations. Sheng's glass works are marked by ethereal
streaks and speckles that reflect her hand and line. This time-honored Western
technique provides an ideal mode for breathing fresh life into the Eastern
traditions that shaped her childhood and still inform her artistic
perspective. Sheng has successfully honed her technique during recent years
while collaborating with master glass blowers in Murano, Italy.
Sheng's Abacus work addressed the past and present. Still used
to teach children how to add, subtract, multiply and divide, the abacus need
not become obsolete in the rush of data and technology that now consumes
society. The gem-like beads of Sheng's abacus evoke smooth transitions without
glossing over the complexities which inform our vivid, globalize world.
Raised
in mainland China , Sheng furthered her education and artistic development in
the United States, settling in San Francisco where she resides. Shan-Shan
Sheng has held over thirty one-woman shows in Europe , Asia and America. Her
paintings and sculptures appear in numerous international collections,
including Harvard University, National Art Museums in Beijing, Shanghai Art
museum; Exxon Corporation, the Art Museum of South Texas, and the Berengo
Collection in Venice, Italy. In last 15 years Sheng has completed over 20
large-scale projects in states of California, Arizona, Massachusetts,
Florida, Taxes and New Mexico, Cities of Miami, Chicago, Denver, Shanghai,
Beijing, Venice, Taipei and Hong Kong.
Sheng is an artist whose universal
messages can be appreciated anywhere in the world.
To celebrate the OPEN exhibition's
tenth anniversary, Curator Paolo De Grandis has increased the number of the
artists and countries taking part, collaborating with the various institutions
that operate in the contemporary
sphere, with a view to creating a network of exchange among the centers
located in the various areas of Venice and the rest of the world.
OPEN is organized by Arte
Communications and by Venice City Council's the Department of Culture, and
sponsored by the Italian Ministry of the Cultural Heritage, the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the Province of Venice and Venice City
Council.
OPEN combines the presence of
important artists such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lee Ufan, John Henry,
Beverly Pepper and historic figures of contemporary art such as Sandro Chia
and Giuseppe Spagnulo, with the works of already recognized, talented young
artists such as Daniele Nitti Sotres, Antonella Zazzera and Enzo Castagno,
while also continuing to present promising artists whose talent has still to
be discovered. The successful formula of the Academies continues with the
presence of
the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Again, this year the presence of Asian artists is particularly numerous and
feature work by Hu Xiangcheng, Li Chen, Shi Jinsong, Xiang Jin and Shan-Shan
Sheng.
OPEN EXHIBITION, IMPORTANT DATES
Press conference
30th August 2007 at 12.00 / Hotel
Des Bains
Performance by the artist Iris
Brosch
30th August 2007 at 5.00 pm / Blue
Moon
Inauguration cocktail party
30th august 2007 at 7.30 pm /
Nicelli Airport
Open to the public
31st August – 14th October 2007
Location
Open-air spaces at Venice Lido:
Piazzale and Gran Viale S. Maria Elisabetta,
Tempio Votivo, Via Lepanto,
Lungomare G. Marconi, Parco Hotel Des Bains, Blue Moon,
Terrace / Hall Hotel The Westin
Excelsior
Organization
Arte Communications, Venice
Joint Organization
Venice City Council, Department of
Cultural Production
From 30 August to 14 October, in
the open-air spaces at Venice Lido, OPEN, the International Exhibition of
Sculptures and Installations
More information contact Carole at 917.686.8498 or email atelierart@aol.com
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