Gratitude - Performance art to Han Dynasty stone engravings

The Chinese national spirit was established during the Han dynasty. Stone engravings from this time period represent the creating spirit of Han artists, as well as the significance of eternal research in the human spirit. French and Chinese performers will interpret stories of stone engraving through their different outlooks and unique artistic languages. When Han dynasty stone engraving crosses paths with French and Chinese performing arts, a multidisciplinary evening through time and space at the Daken Artistic Center. Artistic groups Ilimitrof and Ergao production.

Shenzhen, May 4, Daken Artistic Center, T : 0755-2601 1800.

Organizers : Daken Artistic Center, Shenzhen Soutien

Support : City of Lyon

Artworks of Catherine Klein

With Catherine Klein's work, we discover a new data: the texts, which she wrote herself, are not there to be read. Actually, the artist writes the texts she paints. She writes them entirely and she only paints the texts that she has written on her canvas. However, she doesn't substitute writing for painting, nor does she write instead of paint. She figures the letters of a text, and designs the body of characters without the intention of them being read. Writing and painting, all on canvas, expresses the poetry of Catherine Klein, who, in the footsteps of Jacques Villéglé, presents a series of paintings in relief or mixed media and graphics, for a beautiful and lyrical result that is meant to speak to us. The twenty canvases saturated with letters, words, and phrases as if sculpted in bas-relief with marble powder, sand, oil, acrylic on linen canvas.

18:00, May 8- 31, Alliance française de Pékin (Xihai branch), T : 010 6553 2678.

Organizer : Beijing Alliance francaise (Guangcai center) Soutien

Support : Xun Art Gallery

Pause Lynn Pook & Julien Clauss

Five hammocks, speakers, and a network of sensors transforming the vibrations of the spectators-actors' bodies into sounds broadcasted into the installation. Pause is an authentic sensory, auditory, and interior experience. Come and take a 'pause' at the heart of this apparatus conceived by Julien Clauss et Lynn Pook by becoming the actor and instrument of the new plastic creation made in France.

Guangzhou, June 15-16,Fei Gallery, T : 020-3768 8781.

Beijing, June21-30, Yuanfen Flow Gallery, www.yuanfenflow.org. www.luma-lu.com

Organizers : Yuanfen Flow Gallery, Fei Gallery Soutiens.

Supports : French Institute & Provence Alpes Côtes d'Azur region