April 15, 2008
April 12, 2008
the lovers
marina abramovic and ulay meeting on the great wall...to separate.
«The Lovers – The Great Wall Walk»
The earth is small and blue. I am a small crevice in it.
Huang Xiang, 2nd century
Confessions of the Great Wall
From up here, the earth looks small and blue.
Yuri Gagarin, first cosmonaut
Ulay and I end our relations with this project.
The concept is to approach each other from the two ends of the Great Wall of China
He begins in the Gobi Desert and I begin at the Yellow Sea; we meet halfway in between.
We each walked 2000 kilometers to say good-bye.
Duration: 90 days. Last meeting on June 3, 1988.
Abramovic, Marina; Ulay
rong rong and inri
A decade ago avant-garde photographer Rong Rong lived in a farmhouse and took odd jobs to support himself. "No one was interested in buying my work," he recalls. On the contrary: once when he was photographing performance artist Zhang Huan, who had stripped naked, covered himself with honey, and then sat for an hour in a Beijing public toilet while flies landed on him, a villager stumbled upon the shoot and called the authorities. Rong Rong's wife Inri is also keen to break with convention and push the boundaries of artistic practice to the limits--she brings to her work a fresh, uncompromising approach. Both artists are fascinated by the mysterious transformation of the world they live in. Inri's grotesque 1999.Tokyo, in her own words, represents "illusions born from the radiation of darkness--a symphony of the changing light and shadow." In Rong Rong's "ruin" pictures, the residents of the half-demolished houses have long gone, but the wall decoration and photo negatives they left behind, though abandoned and damaged, still breathe with life. Since the beginning of their partnership, they have worked closely together, often photographing their naked bodies together in extreme, stunning environments--raging blizzards and vast open spaces.
April 10, 2008
he's back :-0
but it seems some other projects over there are in preparation?!?
here a radio-interview on luxembourgish rtl: from beijing to luxembourg
hangzhou, garden city
surrounded by hills and build around the west lake, hangzhou is the most popular holiday destination of chinese people.
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