"Shen Wei: Painting in Motion" | Harvard Magazine
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In Scroll Painting, his dancers performed across the stadium floor as a constantly changing, LED-lit ink-and-wash-scroll depiction of China’s evolution from ancient to modern times. The moving bodies became brushstrokes, color, and paint: a visual medium transformed into live action. Suspension in Blue, Number 6, 2018 Photograph by Stewart Clements A formally trained Chinese opera performer and 2007 MacArt...
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