尔冬强个展“上海ART DECO”建筑摄影展反响热烈！故延长展期至07年1月8日

尔冬强个展“上海Art Deco”建筑摄影展在上海尔冬强艺术中心举行，届时将展出尔冬强先生50余幅关于上海Art Deco建筑的珍贵照片。

上世纪30年代，席卷世界的Art Deco风格的飓风登陆上海，这座新兴的东方都市以其飞速发展的自由经济和永无止境的消费热情呼应和张扬了Art Deco的精神与个性：摩登、时尚、激进、丰沛、勇往直前……那些蕴含着现代意识和自由精神的Art Deco建筑耸立在城市的各个角落，为上海这座城市投下了巨大的身影和永久的回响，并在上海人的心灵空间里，植入了现代主义自由勃发的激情。

作为上海著名的Art Deco研究者和收藏家，20多年来尔冬强先生拍摄下大量珍贵的Art Deco历史建筑照片，并且拥有丰富的Art Deco藏品和资源。今年4月，尔先生的上海Art Deco藏品已在日本东京资生堂主办的“生存于都市中的装饰艺术”展览中与日本的Art Deco展品一同展出。今年九月，迈阿密建筑设计保护协会再次邀请尔先生对迈阿密Art Deco建筑作研究和拍摄。明年1月，尔先生将在迈阿密Art Deco庆祝活动周上举行“上海-迈阿密双城摄影展”。明年4月尔先生还将参加慕尔本举行的世界Art Deco大会。可以说此次在上海举行的“上海Art Deco建筑摄影展”将为一系列的Art Deco活动拉开序幕。尔冬强先生和江似虹女士花费多年心血拍摄和撰写的《上海Art Deco》专著也将同期推出。

近期尔冬强艺术中心还将举行：尔冬强私人博物馆Art Deco家具珍藏展、海报展等一系列的Art Deco主题展览。

The Photographic Exhibition on Art Deco Architectures will be held in Shanghai Deke Erh Art Center from December 9th -31st, 2006. All the photos, will be shown in the exhibition, are taken by Mr. Deke Erh, a famous photographer and collector of Shanghai.

During the inter-war years, Shanghai was known as the “Paris of the East”, and was the most flourishing metropolis in the Far East, boasting not only the center of business, but also the paradise of the hedonists.
As the most modern city in China, which participated in 1925 Paris Exposition, Shanghai with its rapid growing Capitalist economy and endless consumption enthusiasm responded to the spirit of Art Deco: luxuriant, radical and infinite progress. The name, Paris of the East, indicated the close relationship between Shanghai and Paris, but in this period it is American style not the French one that played a dominant influence on Shanghai’s Art Deco, especially in architectural and industrial designs. It meant that Art Deco represented the uprising of the new wealthy class and characteristic of modernity rather than the materialized symbol of colonial power to shanghai, a burgeoning oriental metropolis. Lifestyle of new age, concept of value, and modern consciousness, all of these implied by Art Deco, were extended rapidly to the daily life of the public, with the abundant commodities produced by industrial machines and extravagant settings created by Hollywood films.

As a famous researcher and collector on Art Deco for over 20 years, Mr. Deke Erh was invited by Miami Design Preservation league to pay a visit of photographic creation in Miami in September. And he will host a photography exhibition on the comparative development of Art Deco between Shanghai and Miami in Art Deco Weekend 2007. So “Shanghai Art Deco” will be the prelude to the series events related to Art Deco.

Sepia photos will make a presence at the upcoming exhibition of Art Deco.

There are series exhibitions on Shanghai Art Deco, such as Art Deco Furniture Exhibition, Art Deco Poster Exhibition and so on.

If you want to know more information about this exhibition, please do not hesitate to contact us (Tel:021-64150675) or visit our website at www.artdecoinshanghai.com, www.hai-art.com.