When:
Friday, Feb 23, 2018 10:00a -
Saturday, Feb 24, 2018 5:30p

Where:
McMullen Museum of Art
2101 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02135

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, University

Event website:
http://events.bc.edu/event/painting_nature_the_art_of_cao_jun_conference?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=Boston+College+Events#.WocfHJM-ei4

In conjunction with the exhibition "Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature," John Sallis with the McMullen Museum has organized a symposium of five eminent speakers to give papers on the artist Cao Jun and his works.


Free; open to the public; please RSVP at https://goo.gl/W83UgR


SCHEDULE:


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23


10:00 am–12:00 noon: Visit to the exhibition


12:00 noon–1:00 pm: Lunch


1:00–1:15pm: Welcome by Dermot Moran (Boston College)


Session 1. Moderator: Drew Hyland (Trinity College)


1:15–2:30 pm: “Sympathy of All Things: Cao Jun’s Re-presentation of the Spirit of Chinese Painting,” Wang Huaiyu (Georgia College & State University)


2:45–4:00 pm: “Silent Music,” John Sallis (Boston College)


4:15–5:30 pm: Artistic Demonstration by Cao Jun


5:30–6:30 pm: Reception



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24


Session 2. Moderator: Christine Rojcewicz (Boston College)


10:00–11:15 am: “The Painting of Cao Jun: Metamorphosis of Nature,” Xia Kejun (Renmin University, Beijing)


11:30–12:45 pm: “A Painter’s Thinking Eye: Cao Jun’s Abstract Works (A Philosophical Interpellation),” Alejandro A. Vallega (University of Oregon)


12:45–2:45 pm: Lunch and visit to the exhibition


Session 3. Moderator: Nancy Netzer (Boston College)


2:45–4:00 pm: “Force of Nature and Spatiality in Cao Jun’s Art,” Yang Guang (Tongji University, Shanghai)


4:15–5:30 pm: “Rediscovering (Ourselves in) Nature with Cao Jun,” Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland)

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