"WELCOME TO CHINA!" - "歡迎來到中國!" EXHIBITION


Rosary Gallery, Fuzhou, China, December 2005
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"Wu Yi Shan Light Red #1"
Pigment on paper mounted on scroll,
32 x 84 cm, 2005, part 1 0f 2 parts
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"Welcome to China!" presents three different projects:
- Works with pigment/ink rubbings on paper, mounted on scrolls
- Ink rubbings from 'German Garden' House, Fuzhou
- Performance 'Cleansing the House with Ink' at Mei-Ting, Fuzhou
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One day during our stay as Artists in Residents in Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, we walked around the neighborhood area to take a look and visited the site of a brick factory. Two workers at the entrance gate, busy with their hard work, smiled at us when we passed by and spontaneously said in English: "Hello - Welcome to China!"

This unexpected meeting touched our hearts deeply, because it expresses and reflects our experience very well, how to live and work in China as foreign artists for three months.

We call this the "Spirit of China" to welcome us as guests and we want to dedicate this exhibition to all the people we have met and who are our friends now.
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- Thomas Jacobi & Klaus Fresenius, Artists in Residence, Rosary Gallery, December 2005