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In the Chinese city. Perspectives on the transmutations of an Empire [News]
El Pekin de Lao She [Video]
New Year - Li Hongqi, 2008 © Xstream Pictures / CCCB / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine [Video]
Cry me a river - Jia Zhangke, 2008 © Xstream Pictures / CCCB / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine [Video]
Being & Nothingness - Han Jie, 2008 © Xstream Pictures / CCCB / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine [Video]
Outside Xi’an - Chen Tao, 2008 -© Xstream Pictures / CCCB / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine [Video]
Interview: Fréderic Edelmann, commissioner of the exhibition "In the Chinese city" [Video]
Wait - Peng Tao, 2008 - © Xstream Pictures / CCCB / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine [Video]
Interview: Harry Wu, former political prisoner and director of the Laogai Research Foundation [Video]
Summary of the conference "The dilemmas of Tibet" with Isabel Hilton, journalist [Video]

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In the Chinese city - Perspectives on the transmutations of an Empire

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Commissioner/s
Frédéric Edelmann, Françoise Ged

Design: Enric Massip

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Organized by

Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
With the support of
DEPARTEMENT DES HAUTS-DE-SEINE Musee Albert Kahn
Sponsorship
Zona Franca Consortium of Barcelona
With the collaboration of
Fundación Bancaja

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In the Chinese city. Perspectives on the transmutations of an Empire

In the Chinese city. Perspectives on the transmutations of an Empire

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The CCCB presents "IN THE CHINESE CITY. Overview of an empire's mutations", coproduced with the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), where the exhibition, from 19 June to 19 September 2008.

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For a decade now, China has been immersed in major processes of construction and destruction that have greatly modified its landscape. The exhibition will situate these changes in the country's historical and cultural continuum. It aims to present the reality of the city past and present in four of its dimensions: town planning, architecture, landscape and infrastructure. It will also be an opportunity to compare these realities with the Chinese and Western imaginaries, and with mechanisms of information or propaganda.

The exhibition takes as its basis the presentation of archaeological documents, works of art, models, archive images and contemporary creation. The exhibition layout, unified by the notion of change, is broken down into a dozen independent spaces associated with a Chinese word or concept, or a city that will be presented by means of one of its principal characteristics, with particular emphasis on Beijing, currently embarked on major urban development centring on the Olympic Games.

Some of the sections will be Garden, Character, Earth, Water, Feng shui and Construction / Destruction, and the cities will include Suzhou, Xi'an, Chongqing, Canton, ShangáiShangái and Beijing.

Interview with Frédéric Eidelmann curator of the exhibition

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La exposición presentará diversas piezas importantes. Algunas han sido prestadas por instituciones chinas, especialmente un plano-relieve del Instituto de Urbanismo de Pequín, que no había salido nunca de China, así como maquetas de construcción que han sido prestadas por la Universidad Tongji de Shanghai o por la Universidad de Tianjin. Otras provienen de colecciones francesas públicas, como los museos Guimet y Cernuschi (París), el Musée Départamental Albert Kahn (Boulogne-Billancourt), o privadas (Dautresme, Fava...). Muchas de las fotografías que nos permiten ilustrar el objetivo de esta epopeya urbana provienen de fotógrafos chinos y son obras, la gran mayoría, desconocidas por el público.

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La exposición también ha conseguido tener una dimensión cinematográfica que forma parte del conjunto. El cineasta Jia Zhangke, León de Oro en el Festival de Venecia en 2006 por la película Still life, ha orquestado el trabajo de cuatro de sus colegas sobre ciudades simbólicas de la transformación contemporánea. Y los equipos del CCCB han puesto al servicio del proyecto su conocimiento en el campo de la toma de vistas y del montaje audiovisual. El cortometraje pensado especialmente para la exposición, Cry Me a River, dirigido por el mismo Jia Zhangke, fue seleccionado para mostrarse fuera de concurso en el festival de Venecia en agosto del 2008.

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