KIA 2010 HS Art Exhibition

KIA 2010 HS Art Exhibition
KIA is fully accredited and welcomes all expatriate students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12

Date: 22-24 April 2010
Opening refreshment: 7pm, 22 April(Thur)
Venue: 2nd floor, TCG Nordica Gallery

Opening hours:
Mon 17:30–23:00
Tue — Thur 12:00–22:00
Fri + Sat 12:00–23:00

Jazz Concert with Frida and Friends

Date: 2010 April 24th Sat 8pm,
Add：XiBa Road No.101 Loft
Admission：30RMB
Tel：0871-4114691；0871-4114692.

Come and enjoy a night of Jazz!
Together with Yang Zhi Gang (trumpet), Chuck Eddy (guitar), Alex Kirk (sax), Yang Zheng Jun (bass) and Zhudi (drums), Frida (vocals) will perform a number of Jazzstandards.

Dance with Carmen–Li Qi’s solo violin concert

Date：16th April 2010，Fri 8pm
Add：Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT
Addmision：40RMB
Tel：4114692

Concert Program：

《“Intrada”（Adagio）》：Giovanni Antonio Desplanes

《 Melody》：Gluck

《Schezo—Tarantelle》：Henryk Wieniawsky

《Zapateado》：Pablo de Sarasate

《Vocalise》：Sergei Rachmaninov

《Polonaise brillante No.2》

《“Carmen Fantasy” 》：Pablo de Sarasate

《La Rendo des Lutins》：Antonio Bazzini

Janeric Johansson’s solo exhibition “Light Fight Night”

Swedish artist Janeric Johansson’s solo exhibition “Light Fight Night”

Janeric Johansson has since 1999 established a deep friendship with artists, scholars and young people in Yunnan. He has arranged five solo art exhibitions in Kunming and Simao, by using the TCG Nordica gallery in Kunming Loft as his platform.
Through the unique view of his works, his exhibitions have made a lasting impact on the audience. The passionate elaborations have been met with a tremendous response from the art community.
Janeric Johansson worked as the Gallery Director of TCG Nordica for a year in 2004 and 2005. He has in addition planned and curated a series of important exhibitions in Kunming.

Janeric Johansson was born in Sweden in 1950. As an artist he is self-taught, but the strictness and obvious talent reflected in his art, reveals that this is beyond doubt an experienced professional.
He often uses acrylic and oil, installing metal structures on his paintings. This encourages the audience to view the art works from different angles. Viewing from each new point, you will discover different aspects of his art, and every subtle change will increase the audience’s curiosity and stimulate their creativity.
Moreover, the application of every symbol and the schema of his work is reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code, but still needs the artist’s help to decrypt it.
Janeric Johansson’s talent in telling stories has proved enchanting, enabling the audience to vividly understand both art and artist. This is why, of all the exhibitions we have, his are the only ones where there’s sometimes a bigger audience on the final day than on the opening.

Janeric Johanssons’ art stimulates people to think, to feel and to tell. He encourages his audience not to view reality from one angle only. Sometimes you should move and view things from another point. You will then discover a totally different aspect of both his art and of reality.

The exhibition “Light Fight Night” is named by the artist himself. It’s a continuation of his consistent philosophy through the years — dualism, empathy and certain values. One of the pieces, viewed from the left showes the Chinese word “dong” (east), while from the right you will see the word “xi” (west). In another work it’s written “justice, peace and love” on one side. On the other side is “arrogance, war and hatred”. In a third work there’s a lonely horse on one side, and on the other side horses are kissing each other.
The theme of the exhibition is darkness and light, and the unceasing struggle between them. The 25 art pieces in this exhibition have all been created by Janeric Johansson in the last two years at his studio in Kunming’s Loft area.

The exhibition “Light Fight Night” will be presented on April the 17th at 8 pm, at TCG Nordica, Kunming Loft. It ends on May the 8th.

Looking forward to see you here!

TCG Nordica Gallery
2010.04.07

Eleven years in Yunnan

Eleven years ago I was invited to take part in the First International Festival of Arts in Kunming. The Festival took place the first week of June, but I decided to come 1 month earlier to make a project with 10 students at the Yunnan Arts Institute. At that time no one had heard about Kunming in Sweden. But my friend Anna Mellergard had moved here a year before and she also took part in this project.

The same month I was also invited to present a solo exhibition at the Upriver Gallery in Kunming, one of few avant-garde galleries in China at the time. I didn’t realise how important that exhibition would be. I was the first international artist to hold an exhibition there and for many art students it was the first opening they had ever attended. Most of the Kunming artist attended the opening, including Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun from Beijing. I expected this to be a very local event, far away from Beijing, but suddenly I found myself in the most inspiring and developing art world.

When the 250 artists, musicians and dancers from 40 countries arrived a month later, I was waiting together with my Chinese students and artist friends at the courtyard of the Art Institute. I was supposed to be a part of this international group, but when they were coming out of the buses I realised that I belonged more to the Chinese group. And that feeling has remained with me ever since, and I have kept coming back to China for ten years now.

When T/Café Gallery opened a year later, I was the first artist to exhibit there. For a year, 2004-05, I lived in Kunming together with my wife Eva, and since then I have been coming two times per year. Since 2007 I have also been sharing a studio with Liu Lifen in Kunming Loft.

Three years ago, I was honored to represent Yunnan Province at The Third Guiyang Art Biennal in Guizhou Province.
Kunming has become my second home, mostly because of TCG Nordica and the deep friendships I have developed with many people in Kunming.

Today, Kunming is no longer a blind spot in Sweden. TCG Nordica has put it on the map. Most of the Chinese artists who have been involved in exhibitions and project in Scandinavia have also visited our home in Sweden. This has been a pleasure for my wife and me, and the friendships has been even deeper.
All the paintings in this exhibition are produced in my studio here in Kunming. They are dealing with different topics that have filled my mind the last years. They are an attempt to bridge the gap between east and west through asking questions and trying to understand the different cultures. In my works, I describe people – represented by horses – as they are searching for meaning in life, dealing with darkness and light, western and Chinese thinking. The different angles in my paintings force you to see and change your mind when you are moving in the room.

I hope that the questions I ask and the things that have been interesting to me during the work in the studio, also can be of interest to you as a visitor. You are important to me, because my paintings are not finished until they have met their audience.

Kunming april 2010
Janeric Johansson
Artist.

Congratulations, TCG Nordica!

TCG Nordica celebrated it’s 10th anniversary with a large party on April 3, 2010, at 20:00.

250 old an new friends were invited, and they enjoyed a rich program, with stage performances, speeches, an anniversary exhibition and lots of snacks and drinks to go with it.

The party was though only the start of a year of celebration, where many 10-years anniversary events are planned. To close the celebrations, there will be an extended memory exhibition in December, with posters and photos from all of the 10 years.

Congratulations, TCG Nordica!

April 3, Saturday. 250 friends gathered to celebrate TCG Nordica’s 10th anniversary with an unforgettable evening of speeches, stage performances and a special memory exhibition.

People started arrive at 19:30 and at 20:00 TCG Nordica was filled with the chatting of 250 close friends who anticipatively mingled around looking at the 10 years anniversary exhibition on the gallery walls: posters from all sorts of events during the years occupied one wall, and beside it art pieces donated for the evening. In the corner gallery, a photo collage exhibition, and TCG Nordica’s history written out in Chinese and English mainly on the wall beside the stage.

When TCG Nordica’s general manager Wu Yuerong , popularly called XR, and her co-founder and best friend Anna Mellergård entered the stage everyone listened up, and many came to sit on some of the numerous chairs earlier put out by TCG Nordica staff and the Scandinavian Culture Student group .

It was the beginning of an unforgettable evening walking down the memory lane. Since all of us 250 guests have different stories connected to TCG Nordica, one can imagine Anna and XR must have had a hard job choosing the five speakers finally presented on stage.

We got to share the story of artists Sun Guojuan , the first to go to Sweden through the TCG Nordica-Västra Götaland Region Artist in Residence Program, and Mao Xuhui , famous for his well-known scissors-paintings and neighbor to TCG Nordica since both moved into the LOFT area in 2002.

The principal of Yunnan Arts Institute (YAI) Wu Weimin talked about his and the school’s long lasting friendship to TCG Nordica; the first exchange project was arranged by Hyllie Park folkhögskola and YAI, year 2000. Jin Feibao , investor, told about how he found the deserted factory which now is TCG Nordica’s premises and rented it out of sheer inspiration all those years ago.

Final speaker, the internationally well-known poet Yu Jian , suggested that TCG Nordica is a ”democratic project” not only reaching out to established artists, and he appreciated that one of its purposes is to encourage and support young people. TCG Nordica is a unique project in all of China , Yu Jian continued and expressed how happy he is that the founders choose Kunming and not Beijing or Shanghai for this cultural meeting place. He closed with making us all laugh at his memories of going swimming in a Swedish lake during his visit to Småland for the 2003 Nässjö Poetry Festival.

Between the speakers, we enjoyed a variating program of music and dance, from some of the many talented young people connected to TCG Nordica. Most know to the ArtsNordica network might be Huang Shan who treated us some ”erhu” (Chinese two-stringed violin) music and Zhang Yu who played ”guzhen” (table harp) to Chen Jia ‘s dance, and the Hyllie Park Folkhögskola students Frida Adolfsson, Helena Larsson and John Fhager who sung and played.

At the very end of the evening, all Scandinavians in the room joined forces on stage, as Anders Gustafsson and Maria Mörnerud held a surprise speech with accompanying flowers to XR and the TCG Nordica staff on behalf of ArtsNordica (Hyllie Park Folkhögskola and Areopagos). The organizations will send a donation to the TCG Nordica 10 Years Anniversary Fund as well as to a fund for Yunnan draft victims as a birthday gift to their Chinese partner organization.

Though Swedes and Norwegians filled up the stage at this moment, it was obvious that the large part of all TCG Nordica’s Scandinavian friends naturally had not been able to come, and it was in a feeling of both joy and sadness we rounded up the celebration this Saturday April the 3rd, 2010.

Maria Mörnerud

writing for ArtsNordica
Kunming, 2010.04.03

Photo by Gao Yunfei, Luo Fei, Anders Gustafsson and Josef Mörnerud.

more about “10th Anniversary of TCG Nordica”

Speaking in another Language–Young Musicians’ Concert

Contemporary Piano and Chamber Music
Date： 2010 April 10th 8:00pm (Sat)
Add： Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT
Price：35RMB
Tel: 4114691；4114692

Participating guests：Reto Reichenbach, Pianist

Reto Reichenbach, Pianist

„…With his playing developed from the inner core and rich in facets, mastering the horrendous technical requirements with unfailing certainty, Reto Reichenbach brought the evening to an artistic climax which led the audience in the sold out concert hall to enthusiastic applause…” (Der Bund, Switzerland)

Reto Reichenbach has been received by the press and audiences as a musician whose interpretations are particularly intense and sincere. A special focus of his work is directed to the 20th century repertoire, which is reflected in his success at the international 20th century piano competition in Orléans, France (2nd overall prize and “Nadja Boulanger” prize for the best performance of a work from 1900 to 1950). Furthermore, Reto Reichenbach was prizewinner at the international piano competition of the city of Cantú, Italy. For his artistic accomplishments he was given the “Outstanding Young Person Award” by the Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce and the culture award by the Swiss Bank Corporation.
In his widespread musical activities as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist Reto Reichenbach performed in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Moldova, the USA, Canada and Japan. Milestones for him were engagements at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Interlaken Music Festival and the Tonhalle Zurich. As a soloist Reto Reichenbach performed with many orchestras, such as the Orchestre National de Lille, the European Youth Orchestra Darmstadt, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Romanian “OLTENIA” Philharmonic Orchestra di Craiova, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Switzerland, the Berne Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the International Menuhin Music Academy (Camerata Lysy). Several times, Reto Reichenbach played for broadcasting programs; among others for Swiss Radio DRS 2, Radio de la Suisse Romande and Radio Astra.
Born in 1974, Reto Reichenbach grew up in near Gstaad (Switzerland). Studying with Tomasz Herbut at the Berne Conservatory, he graduated in 1996, receiving the Eduard-Tschumi-Prize for the best performance of the year. Further studies led him to the United States, where he studied with Ann Schein at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and with Boris Berman at the Yale University. In 2000 he returned to Switzerland, where he has since been living as a freelancing pianist in the Basle area. Numerous scholarship awards, such as from the Stanley-Johnson, Kiefer-Hablitzel, Ernst-Göhner and Josef-Pembaur foundations have furthered his career.

Reto Reichenbach Piano Master Class

Times: April 3 (Saturday) 9am to 12. April 4 (Sunday) 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Tickets 30rmb

Reto Reichenbach has held his solo concert in Kunming Opera recently which impressed the audiences significantly. In order to enable experts and students who favor of piano to learn from Reto and make exchange with him, master class is held in TCGNordica.
Reto is good at playing Chopin. He attaches great importance to bring fresh air of modern music to master class in Kunming, enabling more classical music learners to get new techniques and ways of thinking.
Do you wish to improve your performance of Chopin? Do you want to know the mystery of modern music works? You can join us (Sign up advanced is required. Please contact Jin Xiaoyun with cell phone number 13888931611) or you can also attend class as auditor (attendants should be over 7 years old. And please buy the tickets on site. Admission: 30 Yuan) Please focus on Reto Reichenbach piano master class.
Reto Reichenbach has been received by the press and audiences as a musician whose interpretations are particularly intense and sincere. A special focus of his work is directed to the 20th century repertoire, which is reflected in his success at the international 20th century piano competition in Orleans, France (2nd overall prize and “Nadja Boulanger” prize for the best performance of a work from 1900 to 1950). Furthermore, Reto Reichenbach was prizewinner at the international piano competition of the city of Cantú, Italy. For his artistic accomplishments he was given the “Outstanding Young Person Award” by the Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce and the culture award by the Swiss Bank Corporation. As a soloist Reto Reichenbach performed with many orchestras, such as the Orchestre National de Lille, the European Youth Orchestra Darmstadt, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Romanian “OLTENIA” Philharmonic Orchestra di Craiova, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Switzerland, the Berne Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the International Menuhin Music Academy (Camerata Lysy). Several times, Reto Reichenbach played for broadcasting programs; among others for Swiss Radio DRS 2, Radio de la Suisse Romande and Radio Astra.
Born in 1974, Reto Reichenbach grew up in near Gstaad (Switzerland). Studying with Tomasz Herbut at the Berne Conservatory, he graduated in 1996, receiving the Eduard-Tschumi-Prize for the best performance of the year. Further studies led him to the United States, where he studied with Ann Schein at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and with Boris Berman at the Yale University. In 2000 he returned to Switzerland, where he has since been living as a freelancing pianist in the Basle area. Numerous scholarship awards, such as from the Stanley-Johnson, Kiefer-Hablitzel, Ernst-G□hner and Josef-Pembaur foundations have furthered his career.