{"id":38,"date":"2012-04-09T23:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T03:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2012-12-08T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T22:05:17","slug":"paris-france-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/exhibition-info-itinerary\/paris-france-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulogne, France 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Boulogne-Billancourt_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-243\" title=\"Boulogne-Billancourt_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Boulogne-Billancourt_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Boulogne-Billancourt logo\" width=\"82\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa force silencieuse de\u00a0Liu Xia,\u201d an exhibition of 26 photos by the dissident Chinese photographer, artist, and poet, had its world premiere on\u00a0October 20, 2011, at the\u00a0<a title=\"Paris, France 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boulognebillancourt.com\/cms\/index.php\">Salle des Foug\u00e8res, Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt<\/a>,\u00a0a suburb of\u00a0Paris, France. It ran there through\u00a0November 9, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p>A statement in the catalogue reads as follows:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_386\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386\" class=\" wp-image-386 \" title=\"Liu Xia Boulogne poster 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Liu Xia exhibition, Boulogne 2011,  poster\" width=\"127\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liu Xia exhibition, Boulogne 2011, poster<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>La Chine connait une spectaculaire renaissance artistique et culturelle qui se situe souvent en marge des institutions officielles. Ces nouveaux artistes, appartenant \u00e0 la g\u00e9n\u00e9ration postr\u00e9volutionnaire, puisent dans la tradition de la peinture classique et de la calligraphie. Liu Xia, rare femme dans ce milieu plut\u00f4t masculin est la plus importante artiste photographe de ce mouvement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mais l\u2019\u0153uvre de Liu Xia est un myst\u00e8re car elle n\u2019a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 expos\u00e9e au monde : on ne pouvait que la d\u00e9couvrir chez elle, privil\u00e8ge r\u00e9serv\u00e9 \u00e0 certains artistes chinois ou amis occidentaux de passage dans son petit atelier de P\u00e9kin. Les conditions de pr\u00e9sentation publique ne lui semblaient pas encore r\u00e9unies en Chine pour que son travail soit jug\u00e9 sur des crit\u00e8res artistiques et non politiques. Liu Xia est en effet l\u2019\u00e9pouse de Liu Xiaobo, Prix Nobel de la paix 2010, emprisonn\u00e9 pour son engagement en faveur de la d\u00e9mocratie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bien que Liu Xia n\u2019ait jamais particip\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019action &#8211; non violente &#8211; de son mari, elle est assign\u00e9e \u00e0 r\u00e9sidence depuis 2011, sans jugement. Elle a alors accept\u00e9 de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler au monde une partie de son \u0153uvre, un ensemble bouleversant de tirages sur papier de grand format.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Il se trouve que ces tirages uniques, s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s par la photographe elle-m\u00eame, sont parvenus \u00e0 la mairie de Boulogne-Billancourt par l\u2019interm\u00e9diaire de Guy Sorman, ami de l\u2019artiste. Nous avons donc l\u2019honneur de pr\u00e9senter en premi\u00e8re mondiale une exposition de 26 photographies, qui aura lieu dans la salle des Foug\u00e8res du 20 octobre au 9 novembre.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014 Pierre-Christophe Baguet<\/em><br \/>\n<em> D\u00e9put\u00e9-maire de Boulogne-Billancourt<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Isaure de Beauval<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Maire-adjointe charg\u00e9e de la Culture, du Patrimoine et de l\u2019Animation culturelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-390 alignleft\" title=\"CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French-300x300.gif\" alt=\"Liu Xia, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2011, cover\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French-400x400.gif 400w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French.gif 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a>In addition to staging the international debut of this important exhibition, the Mairie de la\u00a0Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt subsidized the shipping of the prints from China to France, the mounting of the prints on their aluminum backing, the manufacture of the show&#8217;s shipping crates, the design of the original catalogue, and other aspects of the project, which contributions have made the subsequent tour of this exhibition possible. On behalf of Flying Dragon LLC, which manages the tour, and all the subsequent venues, we applaud their generosity and commitment to this project.<\/p>\n<p>The Mairie de la\u00a0Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt also\u00a0published a\u00a0catalogue of the exhibition, designed by Daniel Cohen. It includes all 26 images in the exhibition, plus another 14 from the same series, along with essays\u00a0(in French) by\u00a0<a title=\"Sorman, Guy (French)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/about-liu-xia\/guy-sorman-english\/sorman-guy-french\/\">Guy Sorman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Cui Weiping (French)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/about-liu-xia\/cui-weiping\/cui-weiping-french\/\">Cui Weiping<\/a>,\u00a0professor at the Beijing Film Academy.\u00a0Click on the links below to access these materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials available from this exhibition:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cp_expo_liu_xia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Press release<\/a>\u00a0from the Mairie de la\u00a0Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt\u00a0(PDF).<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Liu-Xia-Boulogne-poster-2011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">poster for the exhibition<\/a>. (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CATALOGUE_LIU_XIA_French.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The catalogue for the exhibition<\/a>. (PDF)<\/li>\n<li>Catalogue essays by\u00a0<a title=\"Sorman, Guy (English)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/about-liu-xia\/guy-sorman-english\/sorman-guy-french\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Sorman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/about-liu-xia\/cui-weiping\/cui-weiping-french\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cui Weiping<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Slideshow of the event. (Forthcoming.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"mediaparis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Press response to the Paris showing proved both extensive and overwhelmingly favorable. Here are links to some of those reports and reviews, arranged chronologically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>City Journal<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/eon1019gs.html\">\u201cFreedom to Create,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Guy Sorman, October 2011.<\/li>\n<li>L&#8217;Argus de la presse: Laurent Goumarre,\u00a0untitled short interview with Xavier Martinet and Guy Sorman, October 11, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2011-11-148440@FRANCE_CULTURE-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for PDF transcript.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AFP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paris.maville.com\/actu\/actudet_-La-femme-de-Liu-Xiaobo-expose-pour-la-premiere-fois-ses-photos-a-Boulogne-Billancourt_-2019739_actu.Htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;La femme de Liu Xiaobo expose pour la premi\u00e8re fois ses photos \u00e0 Boulogne-Billancourt,&#8221; <\/a>October 19, 2011. Here as it appeared in Maville.com.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for PDF version.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Les Seniors de Boulogne avec Baguet:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lesseniorsdeboulogneavecbaguet.hautetfort.com\/archive\/2011\/10\/15\/chine-liu-xia-a-l-honneur-a-boulogne-billancourt-en-parler-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chine: Liu Xia a l&#8217;Honneur A Boulogne-Billancourt, en Parler et y Venir pour Temoigner,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0by Guy Sorman,\u00a0October 19, 2011. Discussion by Sorman of the work&#8217;s signifciance and its imminent world premiere, with photos.<\/li>\n<li>Les Seniors de Boulogne avec Baguet: <a href=\"http:\/\/lesseniorsdeboulogneavecbaguet.hautetfort.com\/archive\/2011\/10\/19\/liu-xia-epouse-de-liu-xiabo-prix-nobel-de-la-paix-nous-ouvre1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;La Chine a l&#8217;Honneur a Boulogne-Billancourt,&#8221;<\/a> October 20, 2011. Brief coverage of the opening of the world premiere, with photos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hebdo_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-405\" title=\"hebdo_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hebdo_logo.gif\" alt=\"l'Hebdo logo\" width=\"70\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><em>L&#8217;Hebdo<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gsorman.typepad.com\/guy_sorman\/2011\/10\/la-force-silencieuse-de-liu-xia.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;La force silencieuse de Liu Xia,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Guy Sorman, October 21, 2011. Also published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrepoints.org\/2011\/10\/22\/51682-la-force-silencieuse-de-liu-xia\">Contrepoints<\/a>, October 22, 2011.<\/li>\n<li><em><em>Elle France<\/em><\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.fr\/Loisirs\/Sorties\/News\/Exposition-Liu-Xia-arty-dissidente-1773128\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Exposition: Liu Xia, arty dissidente,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by E. R., October 21, 2011. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ELLE-21-10-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for PDF version.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/scene\/2011\/10\/26\/chinese-dissidents-photos-show-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chinese Dissident\u2019s Photos Show in France,&#8221;<\/a> by Jason Chow,\u00a0October 26, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/scene\/2011\/10\/26\/chinese-dissidents-photos-show-in-france\/tab\/slideshow\/\" target=\"_blank\">With a 7-image slideshow<\/a>\u00a0and a short video (below):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object id=\"wsj_fp\" width=\"470\" height=\"333\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"main\" value=\"videoGUID={8371A7F0-69D1-447C-ADDB-420A5AEEE9EC}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&amp;autoStart=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/main.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoGUID={8371A7F0-69D1-447C-ADDB-420A5AEEE9EC}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&amp;autoStart=false\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"rtmpt:\/\/wsj.fcod.llnwd.net\/a1318\/o28\/video\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"wsj_fp\" width=\"470\" height=\"333\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/swf\/main.swf\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" main=\"videoGUID={8371A7F0-69D1-447C-ADDB-420A5AEEE9EC}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&amp;autoStart=false\" flashvars=\"videoGUID={8371A7F0-69D1-447C-ADDB-420A5AEEE9EC}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http:\/\/wsj.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/players\/&amp;autoStart=false\" base=\"rtmpt:\/\/wsj.fcod.llnwd.net\/a1318\/o28\/video\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voice of America:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/asia\/Photo-Exhibit-Silent-Strength-of-Liu-Xia-133071733.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPhoto Exhibit Showcases Silent Strength of Liu Xia,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Stephanie Ho,\u00a0November 2, 2011. Includes a sideshow with a voiceover by Guy Sorman.<\/li>\n<li>ArtInfo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/artintheair\/2011\/11\/10\/chinese-dissident-writer-liu-xiaobos-wife-shows-her-ugly-baby-photographs-in-france\/#more-4479\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chinese Dissident Writer Liu Xiaobo\u2019s Wife Shows Her &#8216;Ugly Baby&#8217; Photographs in France,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Kyle Chayka,\u00a0November 10, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Reuters:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/09\/idINIndia-60419920111109\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018Ugly Babies\u2019: Art of jailed Nobel-winner Liu\u2019s wife,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Chine Labbe,\u00a0November 11, 2011.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LeMondeLogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-408\" title=\"LeMondeLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LeMondeLogo.gif\" alt=\"Le Monde logo\" width=\"180\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LeMondeLogo.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LeMondeLogo-150x34.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Le Monde<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/culture\/infographe\/2011\/12\/10\/photographie-la-force-silencieuse-de-liu-xia_1615443_3246.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Infographe : la force silencieuse de Liu Xia,&#8221;<\/a> December 10, 2011. Captioned slideshow of her work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa force silencieuse de Liu Xia,\u201d an exhibition of 26 photos by the dissident Chinese photographer, artist, and poet, had its world premiere on October 20, 2011, at the Salle des Foug\u00e8res, Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, France. It ran there through November 9, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p>A statement in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}