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Shen Wei

Internationally renowned Chinese artist,the member of the First International Council of ICAA.He founded Shen Wei Dance Arts in New York, and has been the Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company. Numerous international awards, including the Nijinsky Award in 2004, which is considered the Oscars of the dance world, as well as the MacArthur Award in 2007, the highest award for creative talents in America. Direction and choreographer of the opening segment "Scroll" at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Ceremony.Active in the forefront of modern dancing and arts. Receives wide recognition in the international art community for his ground-breaking cross-cultural and cross-media creations. The Washington Post has called him “one of the great artists of our time”.

Untitled No. 31, 2015

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. H185 X W363 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Shen Wei: Dance Strokes

Exhibition Period :  2016.03.20 – 2016.04.04

Exhibition Venue :  
 

Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall, Asia SocietyHong Kong Center
 

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9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Installed as a site-specific exhibition, Shen Wei: Dance Strokes is the first major solo presentation of recent large-scale oil paintings by Shen Wei (1968 - ) in Asia. Better known as a dancer and choreographer, Shen began his training as a traditional Chinese opera performer and painter at a very young age. During the 1980s, when China opened to the west, Shen began to explore oil painting and modern dance. After moving to New York in 1995, the artist continued to develop his painting as an autodidact. Shen’s large-scale oil paintings are conceived as extensions of his dance practice. The works evoke ink play, space and roiling forms suggestive of Chinese landscape traditions, while being a dancer’s wholly contemporary experiment with the material of energy. This exhibition is accompanied by a series of performances in the outdoor spaces of Asia Society Hong Kong Center by Shen Wei Dance Arts.
 

This exhibition is led by Curatorial Advisor, Dr. Alexandra Munroe, with Dominique Chan, Head of Gallery and Exhibition, and Joyce Hei-ting Wong, Assistant Curator, of Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

In Conversation with Shen Wei 

Afternoon Discussion 
Friday, March 25, 2016
Central Harbourfront Event Space, 9 Lung Wo Road
Discussion 15:00 – 16:00
Free Admission with any Art Central ticket; Registration not required
Speakers:

Shen Wei, Artist

Shen Wei began his training as a traditional Chinese opera performer and painter at a very early age.During the ‘85 New Wave, when China opened to the west, he began his studies in realistic oil painting and modern dance. By 1991, he became one of the founding members of the first Modern dance company in China- The Guangdong Modern Dance Company. In 1995, Shen Wei moved to New York City after receiving a scholarship from the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab. He became an independent artist and continued to develop his painting and dance in New York City. In 2000, he found his New York based company Shen Wei Dance Arts and toured internationally. Some of his commissioned works include the Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edinburgh International Festival, American Dance Festival, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. By this time, Shen Wei earned a MacArthur Award, the Nijinsky Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. In the last decade, his abstract paintings have developed their own unique voice. His most recent paintings were presented in 2014 during Art Basel Miami Beach at the MDC Museum of Art + Design, as well as the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, TX, and in 2015 in London’s Fine Art Society and The Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona.

Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D. is an award-winning curator, Asia scholarand author focusing on art, culture and institutional global strategy.Currently the Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art and Senior Advisor, Global Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, she has led the Guggenheim's Asian Art Initiative since its founding in 2006. Under her leadership, the museum has presented groundbreaking exhibitions and scholarly publications on Asian art in a global context and has expanded its mission to study, acquire and exhibit art from beyond the Western world. Munroe is internationally recognized as one of the most influential scholar-curators of her generation and has been acclaimed as “catalytic” by Artforum. Over her 25-year museum career, she has worked on over forty exhibitions. Introducing artists,movements, and cultural ideas that have long been under-studied, she is recognized for establishing new levels of international critical acclaim for artists Cai Guo Qiang, Daido Moriyama, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Mu Xin, and Yoko Ono, among others, and of bringing such historic avant-garde movements as Gutai, Mono-ha, Japanese otaku culture, and Korean Tanseakwa to international attention. Her project Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994) is recognized for initiating the field of postwar Japanese art history in the U.S. Raised in Japan, Munroe was Vice President of Japan Society, New York, and director of its museum from 1998-2005, where she presented innovative shows of pre-modern art and established the Society as the preeminent venue for contemporary Japanese art in the U.S.

 Untitled No. 32 ：Bodies and Rooftop

Thu, Mar 24, 2016 7:00pm   Sat, Mar 26, 2016 7:00pm
Asia Society Hong Kong Center 

Untitled No. 32 (Bodies and Rooftop) premieres alongside a major solo exhibition of Shen Wei's painting, entitled Dance Strokes, at Asia Society Hong Kong Center. This experiential work draws inspiration from pockets of greenery that exist within the claustrophobic urban environment. In this work Shen Wei's dancers bring to life a sensuous conversation between nature and the metropolis, between heritage and future, and between his dancers that paint with movements, and his brush strokes that impart dynamism.

Shen Wei Dance Arts celebrates its 15th.nniversary season with a program that illuminates the synergy between Shen Wei's visual and choreographic creations,Explore Shen Wei's creative process through selections from his dancesConnect Transfer, Collective Measures, and a new work commissioned by BAM.and a discussion moderated by Guggenheim curator Alexandra Munroe.

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