As a warm-up event to Art Beijing 2007, Volkswagen's Olympic Art
Exhibition is scheduled to tour Shanghai, Beijing and Berlin
starting from May 22nd.
The exhibition will showcase auto-related art works that center
on the Beijing Olympics, created by Chinese artists Zhao Bandi and
Ji Dachun.
Zhao Bandi came to public spotlight with performance art in
which he and his team dressed in toy panda costumes and acted in
ordinary daily situations.
For this exhibition, the artist took his Panda team to
Shanghai's Volkswagen and shot a short video program featuring the
life and work of auto workers of the factory. By such experiment,
artist Zhao hopes his pandas performers can help bring life back to
the "cool" auto making world.
While artist Ji Dachun, demonstrated his art talent by painting
in five colors of the Olympic Rings on a Volkswagen car, hoping to
give it a new life.
The exhibition will last six days at Shanghai business center
Xintiandi.
As part of a biggest ever contemporary art scene, Art Beijing
2007 is due to show up at Beijing's Agriculture Exhibition Center
from September 20th to 23rd.
The undated photo shows artist Zhao Bandi's Panda team performing
in Shanghai's Volkswagen, as a demostration of art work for
Volkswagen's Olympic Art Exhibition.
Artist Ji Dachun paints on a Volkswagen car which will be shown at
Volkswagen's upcoming Olympic Art Exhibition in Shanghai, Beijing
and Berlin.
A performer cycles in the factory of Shanghai's Volkswagen with a
toy panda on his shoulder.
(CRI.cn April 25, 2007)
