Shows

Tomas Saraceno: Aerographies

Date: May 5-June 3 - 10 am

Venue: Fosun Foundation

For his first solo exhibition in China, artist Tomas Saraceno will bring together a compendium of works from across his practice. Designed especially for the galleries of Fosun Foundation, the exhibition performs as a model for a new, alternative form of living, one that attunes to the natural rhythms of the Earth's cycle and the more-than-human species we share the planet with. This exhibition concentrates on the space above the Earth's surface, inviting viewers to travel together on an imagined journey from the micro- to the macrocosmic. Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in Tucuman, Argentina. He studied architecture at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in Argentina and received postgraduate degrees from Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nacion Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires and Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste - Stadelschule, Frankfurt. In 2009, he attended the International Space Studies Program at NASA Center Ames in Silicon Valley, California.

China People's Armed Police Force Male Chorus

Date: May 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

China People's Armed Police Force Male Chorus & Orchestra consists of outstanding graduates from many professional music colleges across the country. China People's Armed Police Force Male Chorus is currently only professional male chorus, which premiered in Beijing in April 2007. Their singing has a distinctive military feature, which is magnificent, powerful and unswerving with delicacy and highly emotional tension. China People's Armed Police Force Male Orchestra is characterized by orderly staffing, delicate performance, rich experience, rigorous style and broad repertoire, which has been highly praised by experts and masses of audience. Since its inception, it has staged repeated gratitude-oriented performance to the grassroots troops, and it is popular with front-line military officers and soldiers. It successfully holds themed concerts such as "I Stand Guard for Our Great Country", "Soldier's Songs", "The East Is Red", "Song of Volga" and "Melody of Youth" in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing Poly Theatre, Beijing Concert Hall, the National Palace Grand Theatre and other places. As the first performing arts group in the PLA, it has been invited for inaugurating-season concert at NCPA Concert Hall.