Future Beauty

30 Years of Japanese Fashion: 15 Oct, 2010 - 6 Feb, 2011 at Barbican Art Gallery

This is the most anticipated exhibit this winter and this is first exhibition in Europe. These works are related with Japanese art, culture and costume history.

Issey Miyake 132 5. (2010): This dresses are packed flat and then opened into highly structured 3D clothes.

In my view, this is the highlight of the exhibit include the designers exploration of flatness. I was not sure that would get a relationship between fashion and architecture. These idea of flat shapes becoming 3D clothing. 132 5. is the current project that takes its from the transformative process of its creation. That was the radical reinvention of traditional Japanese garments and techniques, such as Kimono.

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds: Tate Modern 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011

Is It possible? I guess anyone who thought that it is real sunflower seeds but it is not!! Each seed has been individually sculpted and handpainted porcelain seeds, which took 1,600 workers two years to create (see above I attached vidio) it means each seed seems that apparently identical, but it is unique.

He actually intended as a giant space filling half the enormous Tate modern ground floor and he hoped visitors will pick them up or touch them. Not much later the public ordered to keep out. The reaseon why it can cause dust which could be damaging. Finally the installation was roped off.

Actually I have no idea what they want to tell any meaning with it. In my view, it is just amazing work and a great effort. But he gives the symbolism of sunflower seeds and he hoped that people would consider that a street snack which kept millions alive during times of famine. And also he wanted to invite us to look more closely at the 'made in China' phenomenon.

on the other hand, I think the sunflower seeds mean that whole china community and individual society. What is the relationship between the masses and the individual? and why is it significant fact in today's society?

Rosa Barba at Tate Modern

Rosa Barba: 15 Sep, 2010 - 8 Jan, 2011 at Tate Modern

Italian artist Rosa Baba has displayed her film and sculpture in Tate Mordern gallary. Her work encompasses film, sculpture, installation and publications. A projecter was hanging loosely from the ceiling and whirring away noisily in the centre of the gallary. This exhibition use a film projects and distinctive light.

Rosa Barva: The Long Road,2010

At the centre of the gallary display a large suspeneded screen that shows the Long Road film.
The Long Road documented a race track in the California desert. There is no trees and habitation but the landscape is dominated by the racetrack, a large scale industrial mark on the landscape. The larege scale racetrack can ruin a beautifual place. As with many of her films, they address the relationship between industrial and natural environments.

Art & Dance

MOVE: choreographing you
13 Oct,2010 - 9 Jan,2011 at Hayward Gallery

This exhibition is encouraged to take part by just posing within the installations or for the more ambitious, including dancing, using hoola hoops, standing on seesaws, throwing dummies around and swings between suspeneded rings. I regretted my uncomfortable clothes and shoes. The works explore the interation between art and dance from the late 1950s to the present. There were professional dancers around me they performances anywhere.


Bruce Nauman: Green Light


Robert Morris: Bodyspacemotionthing invites to step on a large unbalanced wooden platform.


Video installation: 10,000 Waves

There are nine double-sided screens which has three elements. I was freely move around and watch it from whatever vantage points. This installation weave together stories linking China's ancient past and present. I was deluding myself that it is different stories.