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THE CHINESE VERSION | “O FAN OF WHITE SILK, CLEAR AS FORST ON THE GRASS-BLADE” SURFACE AND SEMANTICS IN THE CHINESE VERSION | by Oona Lochner

November 25, 2015 /0 Comments/in /by

The work of Chinese artist Jia, a trained architect who has also studied Chinese literature and calligraphy, comprises painting as well as photography and performance. In her painting series The Chinese Version, Jia juxtaposes industrial typography with painterly skill, meaning with appearance, and a memory of literature’s flamboyance with formalistic visuality. On large-scale canvases she […]

Interview: EX_POSURE Magazine by Eleni Zymaraki Tzortzi

October 1, 2015 /0 Comments/in /by

A Cultural atrocity might not be just the systematic destruction of cultural heritage by Isis; according to Jia ‘ s The Chinese Version, currently on view at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as part of the exhibition Infosphere, the simplification program, which targeted the more than 3.300 years old Chinese […]

ifa CULTURE REPORT | Made in Europe | by Jia

April 30, 2015 /0 Comments/in /by

The language of art is universal. When artists migrate, this experience brings a creative energy that is an essential element of art production in the 20th and 21st centuries. A young Chinese artist has settled in Berlin in order to practice calligraphy, providing her with the necessary distance from the destruction of traditional Chinese characters […]