Even before I arrived in China, I had heard nothing but praise for Yunnan. This land South of the Clouds lives up to the literal translation of its Chinese name – blue skies, big clouds, all in a place filled with color and contrast, especially if you’re starting out from Kunming.Ask anyone about.
Completed in 2021 in Kunming, China. Images by Ce Wang, 小野工作室. The World Horticultural Exposition was held in the “spring city” of Kunming in 1999, under the theme of “Man and Nature–Marching into the 21st.
GoKunming users have chosen their favorite Spring City businesses and Yunnan travel destinations for over a decade. As the tradition goes, we start the nomination process for what is the fourteenth edition of this Best of Kunming reader survey.
February 18, 2021
Black Flame, 2016-2017
Two new exhibitions recently opened at Contemporary Gallery Kunming – Blank Paper , a solo exhibition of Liu Jianhua, and The Trees , a solo exhibition of Li Ji. Both are curated by Cui Cancan, one of the most dynamic curators on the Chinese scene today.
Liu Jianhua is an internationally-acclaimed sculpture and installation artist best known for his work in ceramic. Having trained for a time in Jingdezhen, China s main porcelain production center, he was drawn to its potential as a material for contemporary creation. He often uses it as a means for exploring the nature of material, such as in Foam , a wall of white ceramic bricks with the texture of styrofoam, made specifically for this exhibition. Blank Paper , from which this exhibition takes its title, resembles a giant piece of blank paper hung on the wall, with slightly upturned corners at the bottom. As the curator writes in his exhibition essay: