Calligraphy Works Donated to SHCDF

Calligraphy Exhibition for Shen Zonggao’s 90th Birthday & Donation Ceremony was held in Lu Xun Memorial Museum on April 28, 2006. Mr. Shen Zonggao donated 30 of his calligraphy works to the SHCDF. Ms. Li Ping, the Assistant of Executive Director of the SHCDF office, awarded donation certificate to the artist and addressed to express appreciation to Mr. Shen Zonggao as well as to Shanghai Municipal Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and Shanghai Xiang Shan Painting Institute who make efforts to organize this donation.

As a party member of Chinese Kuomintang, Shen Zonggao has been diving into practicing calligraphy and applying himself to public-benefit undertaking after his retirement. The exhibition and donation helped Shen to realize his long-time dream at the ripe old age of 90.

    Sculpture“The Flying of China”Donated to SHCDF

　　The bronze sculpture“The Flying of China”was one of the exhibits of“Shanghai International Biennial Urban Sculpture Exhibition 2005”which opened on Nov. 19th 2005, and has drawn much attention from the media. Today, there is finally an answer to the sculpture’destiny: the Korean sculptor Mr. Kim Seon-Gu and Beijing JinDu Art Center, the sculptor’s agency company, have made decision to donate the sculpture to the SHCDF. on March 21,2006,the donation ceremony was held in the WenXin United Press Tower.

　　Mr. Kim Seon-Gu has won a great number of important sculpture awards, including“Special Prize”awarded at Korea Fine Art Grand Exhibition;“Grand Prix”awarded at The Korea Fine Art Association Contest and“Grand Prix”awarded at International Horse Sculpture Contest, etc. Kim Seo-Gu’s sculpture is hailed as the“the Anthem of Hero in the era of science and technology”within Korea, especially for his figure sculptures that exhibits the modern lives’temperaments and dignity showing full of motion and intensity.“The Flying of China”is a masterpiece created according to Liu Xiang’s great performance on hurdle race and is specially made for Shanghai and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

　　Being a Korean artist, Kim greatly appreciates and is deeply attached to Chinese culture and art, whose works are abundant of Chinese spirits and features. When explaining his motivation and idea of creating“The Flying of China”, Kim said,“Liu Xiang symbolizes China’s Bounding Economy. Liu’s wining of the Olympic gold medal, glorifies not only Chinese people but all the Asian as well. I created the sculpture when taking Liu as Chinese national hero and embodying Chinese national characteristics”. As the 2008 Olympics coming up, Kim perceived Liu as China’s future. The Korean artist wished to exhibit, using his own artistic style, his idea of China and Chinese people to Korea and the entire world.

　　The donation of the“The Flying of China”represents Kim’s identification and trust in Shanghai public-benefit culture undertaking and the SHCDF. Meanwhile, this is also the result that the growing social public credit of the SHCDF has made great influences to the sculptor. With the constant improvement of the operation mechanism, the SHCDF has obtained up to 55 artworks including sculptures and paintings donated by organizations and individuals from China, the United States, France, Romania, etc., valued about 10 million RMB. The donation of“The Flying of China”indicates another success under the diversified fundraising pattern of the SHCDF.

　　Recall the Giant, Donate the“Afterthought”

　　In this autumn, Ba Jin, the master in Chinese literature, passed away, lefting endless sorrow and grief. In honor of the great litterateur, Yan Youren, the famous sculptor, created specific bronze sculpture called“Afterthought, Century Conscience–Ba Jin”, which has been molded 3 pieces. The first piece was donated to Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation and displayed at Shanghai Library. The second was donated to the Organizing Committee of Shanghai International Biannual Urban Sculpture Exhibition and displayed at the former residence of Ba Jin.While the last one was kept by the artist himself. This sculpture has just won the Art Prize of the Shanghai Art Exhibition 2005.

　　When talking about the purpose of creation, the artist is still full of emotion. Someone has ever mentioned:“Ba Jin was the man who had the most painful life in contemporary China,…everyone’s life is easy and free except his. Because he kept on concentrating in his confession word by word.”Since 1978, the year after the Cultural Revolution, he spent 3 years on writing the《Record of Random Thinking》,which contends more than 400 thousands words and 150 articles; and another 8 years on《Record of Rethinking》to continue his independent meditation.

　　To express the understanding, honor and memory of all who are keen on the literature to Ba Jin, Yan Youren decided to use the art form of sculpture to build the everlasting art image of Bajin in the shape of picking up the pen. In the structure of the sculpture, with his dignified appearance, his lifting hand, his drooping pen, Ba Jin feels like to write down all that he has thought immediately after his meditation. The character and the luster of the bronze perfectly annotate the theme of the sculpture. Ba Jin is such an honest, sincere, unswerving and steadfast giant.

　　In the course of creating the sculpture, the spirit of Ba Jin brought the artist to deep inside of the heart length by length. When completing the sculpture, Yan also experienced a purification of soul. Although Ba Jin has passed away, his spirit of wisdom was left . As Ba Jin belongs to people, the sculptures are donated to the public organizations, which could be admired by more citizens. If Ba Jin could realize it in the paradise, he might be gratified.

　　Eight Artists Donating Art Works to SHCDF

　　The opening ceremony of“Seven Plus One”Combination Exhibition of Oil Painting And Sculpture in Shanghai, namely, the ceremony of art works’donation to SHCDF were held in Liu Haisu Art Museum on June 18. Eight Shanghai young and middle-aged artists Ju Yan, Lu Yongsheng, Jin Yan and so on donated their art works such oil paintings as“Portrait”and“Still Life”and the sculpture“Beethoven”. Mr. Shen Genlin, the Executive Director of SHCDF, awarded donation certificates to the artists and addressed to express appreciation. The purpose of the event is to support Shanghai excellent young and middle-aged artists and encourage them to make more contributions to Shanghai public cultural undertaking.

　　Mr. Zhou's Painting donation to SHCDF
　　
　　Mr. Zhou Zongqi’s SoloExhibition & Donation Ceremony to SHCDF was hosted in Liu Haisu Art Museum on March 3rd, 2005. Mr. Zhou had been taught by the art master Liu Haisu since 1962 and went abroad for higher art achievements in 1977. During the past 28 years, he has given many lectures and exhibitions and contributed a lot to highlight Chinese culture. People both at home and abroad speak highly of his style of combination of the Chinese and Western Arts. According to Zhou, the solo exhibition and donation to SHCDF aims to express his appreciation to the Shanghai people and contribute as much as he can to the Shanghai culture and art development, social economic construction as well as commonweal cultural undertakings.”

　　Mr. Shen's painting donation to the SHCDF
　　
　　Shen Qingxi, the painter, had donated his six pieces of Chinese paintings to the SHCDF. Li Ping, the assistant of Executive Director of the SHCDF ,and Lu Guoping, the director of Shanghai Asia Music Festival Organizing Committee Office visited the painter at his home to express the appreciation and rewarded him the donation certificate.

　　Shen Qingxi, also called Shi Zhou, was born in 1927. Deng Sanmu, the calligrapher, and Tang Yun, the painter, taught him respectively. He won the second prize of the National Art Exhibition in 1957 and was awarded in the Shanghai Senior Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition in 1995. During the last 20 years, Mr. Shen has published his works on newspapers and album of paintings. The donation to the SHCDF included six Chinese paintings.

　　Xiangshan Painting Institute donating artworks to SHCDF
　　
　　The 1st Annual Exhibition of Shanghai Xiangshan Painting Institute & the Ceremony of donating artworks to the SHCDF was held in the Exhibition hall of Shanghai Library, January 26, 2005. On the ceremony, Mr.Shen Genlin, the Executive Director of the SHCDF addressed an acknowledgment speech and awarded the donation certificates to Mr. Chen Ming, Executive President of Shanghai Xiangshan Painting Institute (SXPI).

　　Aiming at supporting the commonweal and redounding upon the society, the SXPI donated 24 artworks including paintings, calligraphy and seal carvings to the SHCDF, whose generous act will definitely influence and bring along all circles of the society to devote actively into commonweal undertakings, so as to promote Shanghai cultural development and prosperity.

　　Famous Chinese Artist Yao Dixiong from Australia Donates A Chinese Painting to SHCDF
　　
　　On the afternoon of Dec.10th,famous Chinese artist Yao Dixiong from Australia donates a Chinese painting to SHCDF to express his support to the Shanghai Culture Cause.

　　Mr.Yao Dixiong is well known for the horse painting.In 1979,he moved to Australia to develop his career.His works combined with Chinese special enchantment express the Westerners very much.Especially,one of his famous works---Picture of 2000Kangaroo,was included in GUINNESS Book of World Records for the Chinese painting with exoticism.

　　Mr.Yao Dixiong is the first Chinese artist supported by the government of Australia and won many prizes in worldwide.

　　The related leaders of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation express thankfulness in the donation ceremony.The SHCDF,as a philanthropy in the area of art,welcomes all kinds of donations from organizations and individuals at home and abroad.

　　It is reported Yao Dixiong's Picture Show,cosponsored by China International Culture Communication Center and Shanghai Overseas Communication Association,will be held at the No.1Exhibition of Shanghai Library during the period of Dec.12to Dec.14.

　　“The Large Thinker”Donated to SHCDF

　　On August 25th, a grand inauguration for the sculpture“The Large Thinker”created by famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin was held in front of Shanghai Library. Yang Xiaodu, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, unvieled the sculpture and delivered an speech. This sculpture masterpiece was voluntarily donated to SHCDF by Emmanuel Javogue Fine Arts LLC (USA) .

　　“The Large Thinker”is the main sculpture image in Rodin’s 1880 large sculpture works《the Hell’s Gate》. Rodin made 5 plaster molds for it. The former 4 has already been used for casting 21 sculptures, which are now in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, etc. The only last 5th mold is determined to make limited 25 pieces of the sculpture, authorized and supervised by French National Rodin Museum. The bronze sculpture donated to SHCDF is 180cm in height,which is casted by one original mold with the serial number of 6.

　　“The Large Thinker”was exhibited in the 7th Shanghai Art Fair in Nov, 2003 by Emmanuel Javogue Fine Arts LLC. During last year’s Shanghai Art Fair, Mr. Emmanuel, CEO of the company was touched by Shanghai’s cultural environment and made his decision to donate“The Great Thinker”to the SHCDF on the Fair’s closing day.

　　The location of this sculpture in Shanghai has been seriously considered.As“The Large Thinker”is a symbol of human’s power to change the world that can perfectly match the library’s surroundings and cultural environment.Meanwhile, as Shanghai library is located on Huaihai Road, which has an intensive cultural atmosphere and large people flow, which will maximize the artwork’s social effects.

　　It’s the first time for the SHCDF to receive overseas artworks donation since its establishment. It is also an attempt for SHCDF to explore new ways of fundraising.