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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Government architecture in China

Upon reading an Chinese contemporary art article, I got fascinated by one Chinese photographer.
Bai Xiaoci has chosen the imposing architecture of government buidling as his subject. 
These buidling are vast, majestic and with enormous plazas in front of them. 

Bai Xiaoci has made trips all over China to photograph these wonders of China's urbanization. With his project he wants to show the Chinese growth, that even penetrates in the remote countryside. His works has also a lot of symbolism, like the power of the impersonal Communist Pary versus the small common people.

Party members often want to show of their status and start to organise huge building projects in the hope to be commemorated after their reign. The big market of real estate also wants a cut in the deal. Wherever the Party is building, new housing projects with mushroom out of the ground and pricees will soar up.

So if you want to enjoy more pictures of Chinese urbanization, check out Bai Xiaoci's website.


People’s Government, Yingquan County, Fuyang, Anhui Province

City Government, Shenzhen
People’s Government, Changxing, Zhejiang Province

Chengdu city government building, Sichuan-province
Ordos city government building, Inner mongolia

Hohhot city government building, Inner mongolia

Ningxiang county government building, Zhejiang-province

Shanghai city government building. pudong district

Saturday, July 23, 2011

8 immortals - a Chinese opera piece in Taipei








 

Friday, July 8, 2011

Chinese Communist posters

Over the years The Communist Party of China has showed their love for the patriotic posters.
Here are some of my favourites, you can find some more on Chineseposters.

Advance victoriously while following Chairman Mao's revolutionary line in literature and the arts, 1968

Chairman Hua is our intimate friend, 1978

Building the People's Republic, 1953

Defeat Japanese imperialism, 1937

In celebration of the successful opening of the Qinghai & Xizang railway, 2006

Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan, 1968

Everybody must take precautions against epidemics to smash the germ warfare of American imperialism!, 1952

Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation, 1957

The commune is like a gigantic dragon, production is noticeable awe-inspiring, 1959

Party oh party, beloved party, 1991

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Invisible man from China

Liu Bolin is a Chinese Photographer-artist. He specialised himself in the art of invisibility and is now famous for his special art form. He will study a place and then paint himself so as to melt away in the picture. Every pictures takes him more than 10 hours of work.
Some of his works have a political undertone and in 2005 the Chinese government closed down his art studio. This didn't stop him and he now has a International reputation.

He work is sometimes compared to the children books "Where's Waldo?"