ZHU WEI
Professor, the Department of Art Design of China Academy of Art; Member of China Fashion & Color Association; Member of Zhejiang Province Artists Association
1987 Longevity (corporation), The Thirteenth International Biennial of Tapestry Exhibition, Lausanne，Switzerland
1987 Door, Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, TAKUMI Museum, Japan
1988 Hun-dun-Gu-Gen, New Direction in Contemporary Chinese Tapestry Exhibition, Hong Kong, China
1989 Row-No.2, Hun-dun-Gu-Gen, The New Form of Chinese Art Exhibition, Chicago, USA
1993 Fiber Art Soccer, Textile Structure, Chinese painting, Impression, International Encounter of Miniature Textile Art, Mexico
1995 Construct, The Eighth International Triennial of Tapestry
Exhibition, Lodz, Poland
1999 Soft Sculpture Structure-99, The Ninth National Chinese Fine
Arts Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
2003 Revolve, The Third Asian Fiber Art Biennale Exhibition, Beijing, China
2010 Lotus-Conjuction, The Seventh Asian Fiber art Exhibition, Beijing, China
2010 My Carved Patterns Windows--Carving Schema, Bulgaria & China Textile Art Exhibition, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, China, Bulgaria
2011 International Trade Fair for Home Textiles and Commercially
Used Textiles, Germany
2012 International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles, Shanghai, China
Shi Hui
Professor, Department of Sculpture of China Academy of Art; leader of Varbanov Tapestry Reserach Centre and Fiber and Space Art Studio; works and lives in Hangzhou.
1987. The 13th International Biennial Art Tapestry Exhibition, Lausanne, Switzerland
1992 The 92 International Art Festival—Earth and Fiber, Ankara, Turkey
1993 The Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
1995 The 8th Installation Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
1998 Half of the Sky: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Bonn, Germany
2000 SHANGHAI SPIRIT: 2000 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2001 Living in Time: 29 zeitgenossische Kunstler aüs China, National Galerie im
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart-Berlin, Germany
2002 OPEN 2002: The 5th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice-Lidi, Italy
Alors , La Chine?: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France
2004 Dream of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish
Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
2007 Martell Artists of the Year 2007, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 Our Future: Guy & Myriam Ullens Collection, UCCA, Beijing
The Fifth Dimension: Art of Fiber and Space, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen; MoCA, Shanghai, China
2010 Bulgaria and China Fiber Art Exhibition, Sofia City Gallery, Bulgaria
2013 Flourishing Spirits: Joint Exhibition of Xu Jiang and Shi Hui, Ludwig Museum,
Koblenz, Germany
Longevity
Longevity is a fiber art based on Chinese Culture. This work uses Chinese Calligraphy as main character and expresses the form of Chinese ancient words by textile art. Longevity perfectly shows the unique form language of Chinese calligraphy and shows its special shape of turtle’s back using different textile skills. This work also uses ancient Chinese oracle-bone inion and textile art language to express the Chinese nation’s special spirit and modern
