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Cao Fei's newest video "Shadow Life" will be screened in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Film, 41st International Rotterdam 25 January - 5 February 2012.

more info:
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Son and his thomas trains

East Wind, still from video, 2011

Shooting group of East Wind, 2011

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Serious Play: Cao Fei at Lombard-Freid
By Will Heinrich 6/21 7:37pm

In the 19th century, Great Britain used gunboats to address its trade imbalance with China. It must have seemed clear enough who was doing what to whom. But in the 21st century, things are more complicated. The gunboats remain ready, but the more visible weapons—if they ]]> News]]> ]]> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:44:54 +0800
文/ Brian Droitcour, 译/ 非维

让你的手指在《玩乐时光》（Play Time）中穿行。《玩乐时光》是曹斐2011年创作的装置作品，同时也是她在纽约Lombard Fried第四次个展的主题。各种历史标志性建筑的木质模型，方尖碑，经典的古希腊式人字墙壁面和变形的巴比伦塔构成了一幅都市情景。但同时，这些建筑元素也是穿插在木质坡道和弯道之间的“障碍物”，邀请观众用手指滑板在这个雕塑作品中滑行。录像作品《东风》（East Wind）则记录了一辆装扮成动画故事《托马斯和朋友》中的老式蒸汽火车头的卡车在城市中的旅程：它从一个建筑工地（这意味着即将来临之未来的区域）一路开往垃圾场（那埋葬转瞬即逝之过去的土地）。作品在城市的边缘拍摄，远离了经济特区的那些摩天大楼。《影梦人生》（Shadow ]]> Home]]> ]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:05:47 +0800
二姐，我和父亲（广州）from left: father, me, sister (Guangzhou)

和父亲有关的一些记忆 About Father
文：Cao Fei

父亲一直很忙，好像从来都没有停歇下来的时候。有的话，可能是搭出租车期间打个盹，这个盹就如同手机充电那么神奇，待他再睁开双眼时，疲倦往往被强制性一扫而空。

打自我有印象开始，父亲不分冬夏每天6点就起床洗冷水澡， 不擦干身就坐在沙发上泡茶，用钢笔记录昨天的工作日记以及作新一天的工作安排。7点，开始翻阅他那破旧不堪的、被反复翻阅书写得密密麻麻的电话本，呼这个唤那个开始一轮工作电话把工作部署到实处。如果学校没有课的话，他就和一大帮工人们在他的雕塑工棚里不分寒暑做着各种硕大体例的雕塑。那些来自家乡广西的工人们常被外人戏称为“曹家军”，而今天的]]> News]]> ]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:12:00 +0800
ARTFORUM - New York Reviews: Cao Fei
Text: Brian Droitcour

Your fingers can shred in Play Time (all works 2011), a sculpture by Cao Fei that shares its title with her fourth solo exhibition at Lombard Fried. Wooden models of monumental architecture—an obelisk, a classical pediment, ziggurats of varying shape—compose a cityscape. ]]> News]]> ]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:19:41 +0800
Best in Show: Cao Fei at Lombard Freid Projects
By R.C Baker Wednesday, Jun 15 2011

A figure costumed in blue plush tends a fire under a highway overpass, soft red knobs sprouting from his beach-ball-size head. His companion's rainbow dreads droop over her purple face as she forlornly observes his labors. Amid the concrete pillars, similar ]]> News]]> ]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:00:10 +0800

Play Time Fingerboard Park Installation, 2011
tech deck, fingerboard park, wood, Cao Fei

web: GoArtKids
With her new exhibition at Lombard Freid Projects, artist Cao ]]> News]]> ]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:22:38 +0800
Cao Fei: Apocalypse Tomorrow (2011)
Zheng Guogu: Chair Impacted by Meteorite Swarm (2011)

Apes from both riverbanks screech
with echoes lingering on
Through thousands of mountain peaks
My light boat has gone
——Sailing from White King Town, Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)

Our avatar is styled after a meditating monk, his heart at ease, his board ]]> News]]> ]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:05:35 +0800
Photo: Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

New York Times - Art and Design: Chinese Life as Child’s Play
By CAROL KINO
Published: June 2, 2011

SOMETIMES the most telling things about a ]]> News]]> ]]> Sun, 29 May 2011 14:01:25 +0800 CAO FEI: ‘Play Time’
By KAREN ROSENBERG

In the last couple of years the Beijing-based artist Cao Fei has been building eerie simulacrums of modern Chinese society within virtual-reality games like Second Life. But in her latest show she works in real space, with all its complexities and restrictions, and engages older forms of entertainment and fantasy. ]]> Works]]> ]]> Tue, 24 May 2011 22:25:16 +0800

The Dark Side of Play
Text: Lee Ann Norman Artslant

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei critiques notions of fantasy and reality in “Play Time,” her latest exhibition at Lombard Freid Projects. Rather ]]> Exhibitions]]> ]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 21:31:11 +0800
Image: Twilight (PostGarden- Eye SPY Photo Series, 2011)

Press Release of PLAY TIME:

Play Time by Cao Fei is one of the key artists of the new generation emerging from Mainland China.

For her fourth solo exhibition at Lombard Freid, Cao Fei’s recent exploration into the theme of “play” has multiple connotations; Play Time is layered with ]]> Exhibitions]]> ]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:07:53 +0800
Cao Fei: Play Time (solo exhibition)
Lombard-Freid priject, 18 May, New York

Lombard Freid Projects
518 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel 212.967.8040
Fax 212.967.0669
info@lombard-freid.com
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Seven on Seven 2011:
Participating artists: Michael Bell-Smith, Ricardo Cabello (Mr. Doob), Cao Fei, Liz Magic Laser, Zach Lieberman, Rashaad Newsome, and Camille Utterback. Technologists are Andy Baio, Ben Cerveny, Jeri Ellsworth, Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Bre Pettis, Chris Poole and Erica Sadun.
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Whole Treatment team from Beijing & Guangzhou arrived Headquarters of Deutsche Bank Frankfurt on 29th Mar.

1st day, Coffee Yoga class 1- Decaf, people followed China Tracy doing SL Yoga in real life.

Cao Fei and ]]> News]]> ]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:15:01 +0800
Leesa Fanning, the associate curator of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US

‘RMB City Opera’ reflects a changing China
By ALICE THORSON (The Kansas City Star) Posted on Sat, Mar. 05, 2011 10:15 PM

Want to know what’s on the minds of young people in an ascendant, ]]>