Czech embassy promotes Chinese contemporary art
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The evening was all about piano at the Czech Embassy in Beijing on March 4. As young Czech pianist Pavel Voracek gently performed Frederic Chopin’s music, contemporary Chinese artist Huang Rui demonstrated his latest creation—an upright piano outfitted with numerous wind chimes.
Traditionally dressed in a black changshan and wearing a pair of dark round sunglasses, Huang wandered inadvertently around his creation and rhythmically stroked the wind chimes to Voracek’s music. The duo drew an enamored cluster of spectators, who took out their cameras to capture the unique collaboration.
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The upright piano outfitted with numerous wind chimes. |
The performance was part of Huang’s concept of “behavior art”, and demonstrated the possibilities of cross-cultural artistic cooperation.
The discovery of the two artists was a “great event worth celebrating,” said Czech Republic’s Ambassador to China Libor Secka, who addressed the audience prior to the show.
Born in 1952 in Beijing, Huang is a pioneer of contemporary art in China. He was the organizer of the 1979 Star Movement, which promoted modern art following its ban during the Cultural Revolution. Huang also discovered the 798 Art Zone in 2001, which later became a burgeoning modern art scene in Beijing. Art critics consider his works as rebellious protests against societal norms.
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Pavel Voracek plays the piano before the celebration is officially opened. |
The exhibition of Huang’s work is part of the Czech Embassy’s “Embassyart” program, initiated in 2010 to bridge Chinese and Czech culture. Sponsored by Czech auto maker Skoda and Chinese telecommunication manufacturer Huawei, the program has brought together a number of painters, musicians, photographers and dancers from the two countries, and will run until 2013.
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