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Fri/Sat/Sun June 2~4, 2017 06 i culture International piano festival concludes THE Second Lang Lang Shenzhen Futian International Piano Festival dropped its curtains Sunday night at Shenzhen Concert Hall. After six months of preparations, the weeklong event hosted 22 large-scale art and charity activities including piano competitions, lectures and concerts. The festival adhered to the spirit of charity and openness by offering citizens 10,000 free tickets, aiming to enrich people’s spiritual lives and promote the cultural and ideological progress of Futian District and Shenzhen at large. As one of the highlights of the fes- tival, the Futian Cup National Youth Piano Elite Contest attracted over 300 entries and eventually 48 contestants from home and abroad reached the final rounds of the Kids Section and the Youth Section. To promote Chinese music and help more children to better understand Chinese music and traditional Chinese culture, the competition presented a Best Interpretation of Chinese Works Award which was won by Li Junjie, a 10-year-old from Jingpeng Primary Cao Zhen [email protected] S HENZHEN painter, callig- rapher and graphic designer Zhuang Yujun presented his ink painting on paper “Lin Zexu” to Shenzhen Museum on May 10. The 2 x 3.65m painting created in 2014 is part of Zhuang’s “Chinese Spirit” painting series which illustrates notable Chinese figures, such as the phi- losopher Confucius, calligrapher Wang Xizhi, actor Bruce Lee, kung-fu master Huo Yuanjia, commander-in-chief Yang Jingyu, ancient poet Qu Yuan and scholar-official Lin Zexu. Lin (1785-1850) was known for his forceful opposition to the opium trade in China in the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911). He is praised for his constant position on the “moral high ground” in his fight. The “Chinese Spirit” series, along with the “Chinese Character” series, were warmly received in China and the United States when they were previ- ously exhibited and Zhuang once said the two series were his contribution to world peace and justice. “I’m illustrat- ing the unique qualities and personality of the traditional Chinese spirit which not only belongs to China but also all of mankind.” Zhuang only painted faces of the fig- ures in the series because he believed that facial expressions have the most power. “I tried to express people’s spirit through their faces and eyes, not from their garments or accessories.” One of the most acclaimed logo designers in China, Zhuang has designed logos for more than 1,000 organizations, including the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF). He has also broken new ground in Chinese ink painting. His painting style features a unique artistic language created via ink and calligraphy. This style and concept is embodied in his “Chinese Character” and “Chinese Spirit” series, showing a mixture of Chinese freehand ink paint- ing and Western sketch techniques. Beijing opera mask and traditional Chinese calligraphy elements can also be found in his portrait paintings. When Zhuang’s paintings were exhib- ited in Los Angeles, the United States, in 2015, the artist received an honorary award from the Committee of the LA Art Show and a congressional award from SZ painter presents artwork to museum Zhuang Yujun (R) and Shenzhen Museum curator Ye Yang in front of Zhuang’s painting “Lin Zexu” at the museum May 10. Sun Yuchen Lang Lang (C) presents winners with their awards. Photos by courtesy of the Publicity Department of Futian District Committee of the CPC Zhang Yang [email protected] A N exhibition hall for display- ing new materials had been set up at the Sino-Finnish Design Park in Futian District, a subvenue of the 13th China (Shenzhen) Interna- tional Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) that concluded May 15. The materials were provided by Neuni MateriO, a Shanghai-based virtual material library that houses over 7,000 materials chosen by engineers and designers from all over the world. It was the first time that Neuni MateriO had exhibited at the ICIF, providing visitors a selection of 70 new materials, such as flexible wood, diffused fibers and an antibacterial membrane. Irem Arig, head of new materials at Neuni MateriO, said Shenzhen is well-known as a center of innovation in terms of technology and industrial design, and her company is looking for cooperation in the city by offering its physical and online databases of new materials, and its latest achieve- ments in material research, to local designers. “As a material library, there is something really unique we can offer in terms of approaching design or innovation through material as a starting point,” Arig said. Feng Changhong, vice president of the Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, said that Design 4.0 means designing for the eco-environment, which advocates for designing with eco-friendly new materials. Sandy Munro, chairman of the Michigan Small Aircraft Transpor- tation System (MI SATS) of NASA and CEO of Munro & Associates — an engineering consultancy firm in the United States, signed a cooperation agreement with the Sino-Finnish Design Park on May 12 to set up a global benchmark innovation center in Shenzhen. “The world is realizing that add- value manufacturing is the wave of the future,” he said, adding that the core of lean design was well-suited for makers to produce small batches of products and that the Munro tools could help more Shenzhen innovators realize the full potential of their creativity by improving the quality and reducing the cost of their products. Visitors at an exhibition displaying new materi- als at the Sino-Finnish Design Park in Futian District on May 12. Zhang Yang New materials, design concepts presented School who also took the first place in the Kids Section. The competition in the Youth Section was much fiercer with students from professional conservatories compet- ing to win it all. The first place went to Zhang Bo from the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. (Yang Mei) A contestant performs at the competition.
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International piano festival concludesTHE Second Lang Lang Shenzhen Futian International Piano Festival dropped its curtains Sunday night at Shenzhen Concert Hall.
After six months of preparations, the weeklong event hosted 22 large-scale art and charity activities including piano competitions, lectures and concerts.
The festival adhered to the spirit of charity and openness by offering citizens 10,000 free tickets, aiming to enrich people’s spiritual lives and promote the cultural and ideological progress of Futian District and Shenzhen at large.
As one of the highlights of the fes-tival, the Futian Cup National Youth Piano Elite Contest attracted over 300 entries and eventually 48 contestants from home and abroad reached the fi nal rounds of the Kids Section and the Youth Section.
To promote Chinese music and help more children to better understand Chinese music and traditional Chinese culture, the competition presented a Best Interpretation of Chinese Works Award which was won by Li Junjie, a 10-year-old from Jingpeng Primary
SHENZHEN painter, callig-rapher and graphic designer Zhuang Yujun presented his ink painting on paper “Lin Zexu” to
Shenzhen Museum on May 10.The 2 x 3.65m painting created in
2014 is part of Zhuang’s “Chinese Spirit” painting series which illustrates notable Chinese fi gures, such as the phi-losopher Confucius, calligrapher Wang Xizhi, actor Bruce Lee, kung-fu master Huo Yuanjia, commander-in-chief Yang Jingyu, ancient poet Qu Yuan and scholar-offi cial Lin Zexu.
Lin (1785-1850) was known for his forceful opposition to the opium trade in China in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). He is praised for his constant position on the “moral high ground” in his fi ght.
The “Chinese Spirit” series, along with the “Chinese Character” series, were warmly received in China and the United States when they were previ-ously exhibited and Zhuang once said
the two series were his contribution to world peace and justice. “I’m illustrat-ing the unique qualities and personality of the traditional Chinese spirit which not only belongs to China but also all of mankind.”
Zhuang only painted faces of the fi g-ures in the series because he believed that facial expressions have the most power. “I tried to express people’s spirit through their faces and eyes, not from their garments or accessories.”
One of the most acclaimed logo designers in China, Zhuang has designed logos for more than 1,000 organizations, including the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF). He has also broken new ground in Chinese ink painting. His painting style features a unique artistic language created via ink and calligraphy. This style and concept is embodied in his “Chinese Character” and “Chinese Spirit” series, showing a mixture of Chinese freehand ink paint-ing and Western sketch techniques. Beijing opera mask and traditional Chinese calligraphy elements can also be found in his portrait paintings.
When Zhuang’s paintings were exhib-ited in Los Angeles, the United States, in 2015, the artist received an honorary award from the Committee of the LA Art Show and a congressional award from
SZ painter presents artwork to museum
Zhuang Yujun (R) and Shenzhen Museum curator Ye Yang in front of Zhuang’s painting “Lin Zexu” at the museum May 10. Sun Yuchen
Lang Lang (C) presents winners with their awards. Photos by courtesy of the Publicity Department of Futian District Committee of the CPC
Zhang [email protected]
AN exhibition hall for display-ing new materials had been set up at the Sino-Finnish Design
Park in Futian District, a subvenue of the 13th China (Shenzhen) Interna-tional Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) that concluded May 15.
The materials were provided by Neuni MateriO, a Shanghai-based virtual material library that houses over 7,000 materials chosen by engineers and designers from all over the world.
It was the fi rst time that Neuni MateriO had exhibited at the ICIF, providing visitors a selection of 70 new materials, such as fl exible wood, diffused fi bers and an antibacterial membrane.
Irem Arig, head of new materials at Neuni MateriO, said Shenzhen is well-known as a center of innovation in terms of technology and industrial design, and her company is looking for cooperation in the city by offering its physical and online databases of new materials, and its latest achieve-ments in material research, to local designers.
“As a material library, there is something really unique we can offer in terms of approaching design or innovation through material as a starting point,” Arig said.
Feng Changhong, vice president of the Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, said that Design 4.0 means designing for the eco-environment, which advocates for designing with eco-friendly new materials.
Sandy Munro, chairman of the Michigan Small Aircraft Transpor-tation System (MI SATS) of NASA and CEO of Munro & Associates — an engineering consultancy fi rm in the United States, signed a cooperation agreement with the Sino-Finnish Design Park on May 12 to set up a global benchmark innovation center in Shenzhen.
“The world is realizing that add-value manufacturing is the wave of the future,” he said, adding that the core of lean design was well-suited for makers to produce small batches of products and that the Munro tools could help more Shenzhen innovators realize the full potential of their creativity by improving the quality and reducing the cost of their products.
Visitors at an exhibition displaying new materi-als at the Sino-Finnish Design Park in Futian District on May 12. Zhang Yang
New materials, design concepts presented
School who also took the fi rst place in the Kids Section.
The competition in the Youth Section was much fi ercer with students from professional conservatories compet-ing to win it all. The fi rst place went to Zhang Bo from the Music Middle School Affi liated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. (Yang Mei)
A contestant performs at the competition.
