September 13 – December 9, 2012

Jingdezhen, also known as the “Porcelain Capital,” has served as the world’s major source of China trade ceramics for over 1,000 years. The city’s history, unique location, access to kaolin and skillful artisans still attract ceramicists from all over the globe. New “China” will allow visitors to explore the authoritative influence of Jingdezhen on ceramic arts during the last 100 years. It will introduce a special group of modern and contemporary artists, who have revitalized Jingdezhen and bolstered the world’s ceramic market through their contemporary ideas and progressive techniques.

This exhibition is organized by China Institute Gallery under the direction of Willow Weilan Hai Chang. It is co-curated by Lili Fang, Director of the Artistic Anthropology Research Center of the China Art Research Institute in Beijing, and a leading author on Jingdezhen studies and Nancy Selvage, former Director of the Ceramics Program at Harvard University.

Zhu Dequn (b. 1920)
Let life arise and persist from the tip of a brush
2007
Blue and White porcelain with painted gold
15 ¾ inches (40 cm)
Private collection, Hong Kong
© Atelier Chu Teh-Chun/ Manufacture de Sèvres/Marlborough Gallery
Courtesy of FEAST Projects, Hong Kong