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Preface 1
Huang Kunming
Hangzhou is renowned as a typical embodiment oftraditional orientaculture, boasting beautiful sceneries,many famous personalities,profound cultural heritage,and brilliant literary and artistic achievements. In recent years,contemporary artistic elements in Hangzhou have unleashed enormous vitality with its cultural and artistic ecological structure being rapidly geared tointernational standards.A series ...
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Preface 2 The Dimension of Weaving
Xu Jiang
The world is caught in constant change, both at the micro and the macro levels. Therefore the dimension of our perspective matters enormously. Heaven-and-earth is on one end of the dimensional spectrum, hence the legendary giant bird of Peng in Zhuangzi’sparable comes with wings spreading out like clusters of clouds. Yin-and-Yang (obscurity and brightness) also refers to a dimension, in which ‘all ...
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Preface 3 The Significance of Contemporary Art in Promoting Culture
Ma Fenghui
There are two features of moden art museum:the first is regionalism.Aregion can boost its confidence and sense of pride by exploring and displaying its cultural content, through which it can also enhance its influence upon other regions: the second is contemporariness. Asan important component of contemporary art ecological structure, art museum should fully integrate itself into international communication ...
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Interlacing New Directions
From time immemorial, weaving art around the world has been passed down from one generaion to the next. Therefore,the history of fiber art also reflects the history of different people and culture. However, despite all the changes occurring in weaving techniques around the world of all ages, they still remain closely dependent on warp and weft.“Warp and Weft, Sprawling towards Four Directions” is ...
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Digital Jacquard Arts
Huang Nengfu
The invention and development of textile technology symbolise the progress of humancivilisation. The weaving of silk and hemp was invented over 7000 years ago in China.Originally, weaving was purely carried out by hands, called “hand weaving by means of hanging”. In weaving practices during the past thousands of years, a series of looms were invented, evolving from back-strap looms, simple looms ...
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Exhibition of Chinese Kesi Art
Kesi refers to silk products made with continuous warps and discontinuous wefts. It is weaved with small shuttles basing on the different sections and colors of the pattern, resulting in clear rim of the pattern. For such "hard edge" effect, it is also called “cut silk”. It is highly labor and time consuming to produce a kesi work, but various motifs such as flowers and gradd,birds and animals can ...
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Vision for Future: Digital Jacquard Arts
Dr Kinor Jiang
The exhibition ofDigital Jacquard Mythologieshas invited six leading artists in the ficld of fibre art including Junichi Arai,LouiseLemieux,Bérube Philippa Brock,Lia Cook,Wen-Ying Huang and Liz Williamson,who all uphold distinct artistie notions combinating tradition and innovation.,and have tirelessly explored the inte gration of computer technology and traditional Jacquard techniques.Their artistry ...
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On the Boundary Crossing in Maryn Varbanov’s Art Practice
It has been two decades since Mr. Varbanov passed away. Two decades is not a short period of time, yet it seems it was only yesterday that I was working with him. Back then we gathered around Mr. Varbanov, our hearts filled with endless expectations of contemporary art. We were indeed like a tabula rasa with our supplicants’ hearts, anxiously anticipating enlightenment from Mr. Varbanov. Our startled ...
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