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In millennium culture fashionable center

Istanbul succeeded to be elected in 2010 the European culture, blended to be related with its new and old culture. Perhaps Europe and Asia connect the geographical environment, gave the native the unique thinking mode, native place’s culture can retain completely, the external culture can also obtain very good dissemination in this, the native place and ship comes the culture not to have the intense collision and conflict. The natives are good at the native culture and external cultural union, creates one brand-new fashion.

Every year two sessions “Turkish international fashion exhibition” made Istanbul a global fashion center. Has “convention” reputation Istanbul, every year conducts each kind of size fashionable exhibition is innumerable, lets the designer of all forms from gather here in all directions, displays own talent, regardless of being the renowned master, is the peon, is willing to seek for the inspiration here, lets the design life continue here or sublimate.

As eastern Rome, Byzantium and Osman’s capital, an Istanbul several thousand years history has left behind the deep inside story for this city, as well as Europe and Asia connected to form one kind of multiplex social structure. The finding at everywhere cafe fluttered the rich coffee to enable in designer’s brains to be possible momentarily to burst out the inspiration fragrant; The warm wild danse du ventre and mystical maneuver dance may let the designer have completely different work style. The designers their work room hideaway in a secret hundred years building, a small facade, many brands like this are born. Regardless is the clothing, home, daily necessities or the ornament, so long as lives the thing which needs to contact, here designer can turn them the fashion, moreover unique style. The designers are accustomed to rushing about in Europe each kind of fashionable place, collects each popular product and element. Returns to Istanbul, the designers each tidal current product, performs the native element, becomes was in sole possession of the original design.

Wasteful enchanting shopping paradise

The Istanbul good commercial atmosphere, has provided the infinite world for designers’ design, from the populaces tidal current to the luxury goods, has the broad consumer market. The Turks are always business experts, in Osman time, Istanbul because of its unique geographical advantage, becomes in Europe and Asia the important commodity collection and distribution center, the European and Asians collects here to carry on the respective unique commodity the transaction.

Was built located at the Istanbul old city’s big bazaar 500 years ago, this ancient rural fair is now the world biggest belt ceiling rural fair, every day attracts nearly 500,000 people to visit here. In rural fair, cafe, restaurant, bank and post office ……Has everything expected to find. Rural fair’s more than 60 porch streets respectively by each commodity attribute name of street, therefore street’s name such as jewelry street, gold street and rug street and so on. Although the name basis commodity attribute classification of porch street, but must find some concrete porch street in nearly 5000 stores, firmly is not easy, in this inner ear was the normal matter. Big bazaar, is called “gold market”, its earliest constructs the goal is used in the weapon and gold transaction. Enters the big bazaar, golden light sparkle each kind of jewelry lets the human be eyes cannot take it all, being bedecked with jewels noble gas is threatening. Highly skilled’s manual Geisha, each kind of incomparably fine money household utensils which makes in the shop, is more dazzling, praises to the heavens. In nearly 5000 shops, from chinaware to silk, from rug to sickle and other kind of commodities, so long as can think has everything expected to find, the person who comes here shopping is unable to put down to each kind of commodity all.

The place of Istanbul another famous shopping is the Egyptian market. Everyone knew that Osman’s spice is famous, certain spices were also at that time more expensive than the gold. The Egyptian market is characteristic market which is primarily for selling spice, the market has collected world various spices, has everything. The Egyptian market is a tourists’ fashionable destination, because likes the cook the human like in this giving a ride the precious spice, brings back to the family to regulate one’s life. (This article originates: Ruili feminine net)

After American war-god I-X take-off rocket falling sea, serious distortion (group chart)

    In human more than 50 years’ astronautics history, “Lei Ren” the accident sometimes occurred. The rocket and aerospace craft will not only receive the birds and other animal’s the undeserved kindness, sometimes also by thunder and lightning “favor”. On October 27, US “outer space” website chief editor RitchieMalek wrote to review in American astronautics history some “non-typical time”.

    The U.S. Eastern time on October 28 morning 11:30, the load bearing the US was returning to the Moon dream “war-god I-X” rocket launched from the Kennedy space center 100 meters high firing towers successfully, and has successfully completed two minutes test assignment. Fills with the anticipation people finally before “war-god”, because the weather not good, equipment by the card and alert area waters is intruded freighter and other accidents to postpone repeatedly the launch in the haze, walked. But next day, NASA (NASA) indicated that because a chute presents the breakdown, the take-off rocket after crashing into Atlantic was discovered that the big area is hollow.

    “War-god” bitter experience multiple accident is no doubt abjective, but in the human more than 50 years’ astronautics history, similar accident is too numerous to cite individually, some even arrived at the unthinkable situation. On October 27, US “outer space” website chief editor RitchieMalek after the NASA last announcement “war-god” postpones the launch, wrote to review in American astronautics history some “non-typical time”. What is lucky, these accidents have not caused the serious results.

　　“Moon golfer” bitter experience strong urge to defecate

    AllanSheppard enters the astronaut in outer space as American first, will forever be carried the annals. He was in 1959 NASA “the Project Mercury” designation one of 7 astronauts, was only one has hit the person of golf on Moon. But little some people knew that is covered him by the corona once in the flying apsaras critical moment bitter experience strong urge to defecate.

    Sheppard and another Project Mercury astronaut DykeSri Lanka Lei Duhe in “Moon landing” mentioned this experience. On May 5, 1961, American primary emission manned vehicle, at that time Sheppard in “free No. 7” in capsule, the engineers after death had locked the cabin door in him. The launch repeatedly is postponed, but Allan wants to go to the restroom.

    “I want to urinate, felt that really experiences one day like a year.”Sheppard through radio said to the ground control bench that “rocket platform has not removed, opens the gate to let me come out to solve fast, what kind of?”But the control bench has rejected his request. Sheppard finally chooses the urine, in his has sparkled in the shining spacesuits, but he let ground Taiwan close in the spacesuits symptom sensor, in order to avoid convenience process monitored awkwardness. Finally, the Mercury airship succeeds Sheppard writes down outer space – aerodynamic pitch Soviet Union astronaut UreyGagarin became “the outer space first person” (on April 12, 1961) less than one month.

　　“Batman” sneak crossing is confronted by danger

    When last year March US Discovery space shuttle, the world media reported this kind of news: A bat attempts to borrow “machine” sneak crossing.

    At that time monitored the group to catch this bat’s image through the camera, it clung in Discovery outside sets on the fuel tank, at that time, the irrigation fuel (ultralow temperature liquid hydrogen and loxygen) procedure was carrying on. It looked like is stuck, but frequently transformed the posture. Discovery launched when until March 15 bat also above, but after Discovery lifted off soon died.

    This was not the aerospace craft first bitter experience “Batman”. When 1996 Japanese astronaut Kouichi Wakata carried out his second space task, some bat attempted “sneak crossing”, what was lucky, that bat has not been stuck, it before the aerospace craft lifted off understands what has to done to fly away.

(Chief-editor: Chen Shujun)

    New China net Tianjin on September 19 special news (by Zhang Jianxin) September 20 was to love the tooth date. The experts said that the most halitosis are the oral cavity partial disease cause. But many whole body diseases may also cause the obvious halitosis. If the senior citizen has the obvious halitosis when not obvious odontopathy, must inspect the body promptly, especially must pay attention to the inspection endocrine system, liver, kidney and heart and other diseases, so that the early time could discover that disease early time obtains the treatment.

    Nankai University attached stomatological hospital Director Chen Ruiyang said that diabetes, the gastro-intestinal tract disease, liver disease, nephritis and heart disease may cause the halitosis.

    Chen Ruiyang said that the majority diabetics are accompanied by the varying degrees the immunologic function barrier, in the oral cavity pathogenic bacteria increase, therefore causes gingivitis and parodontitis, produces the ill-smelling smell. Of diabetic Canada has the endocrine function disorder, in the body fluid ketone body increase, the ketone body along with the secretion saliva and breath through the oral cavity, will have the halitosis, in the morning after awaking, the halitosis is quite obvious.

    Gastric disease patient’s halitosis generally is because the stomach creeping motion is unusual, in the stomach food dyspepsia, causes the back-streaming to the esophagus. Gastric disease halitosis is quite obvious, assumes the sour stink. The chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer may have the halitosis. Once in the oral cavity presents in the stomach the back-streaming food sour odor, then explained that has gastritis and esophagitis exists, needs to take medicine the treatment.

    Generally, the duodenal ulcer and inflammation enteropathy does not have the halitosis. Liver disease patient’s halitosis assumes putrefactive odor generally. This is because the liver function of liver disease patient is unusual, causes in the blood urea nitrogen and ammonia content increases, but the ammonia discharges a part after the breath from the oronasal. The liver disease patient has the obvious halitosis, usually is the performance which the liver disease aggravates, needs to diagnose promptly. Once has the liver stupor because of the liver disease, simultaneously is accompanied by the oral hemorrhage and obvious halitosis, will explain the liver failure, the patient life will soon arrive at the terminus.

    When nephritis patient presents the kidney function exceptionally, will have the obvious halitosis. The patients felt in frequently the mouth has the smelly brined vegetable flavor, but other people may smell the bashful stink.

    Cardiac patient’s oral cavity unusual smell for the mild putrefactive odor, oneself can also feel that in generally the oral cavity has the unusual smell, moreover cleans the teeth and rinses mouth not remarkable results. Heart disease caused the halitosis is in oral cavity the bacteria colony changes to be the result. Moreover treats heart disease’s medicine to suppress the saliva the secretion, in the oral cavity bacteria increases, will cause the halitosis.

    The experts reminded, the oral cavity partial disease caused the halitosis, may receive the quite good result after the treatment. The body-wide disease caused the halitosis, purely depends upon the oral cavity topical treatment not to have the remarkable results, needs to coordinate the whole body to get sick the treatment to show results.

    Little Shenyang: The skilled worker treats me like this, I must be ready for any sacrifice to do the life well, cannot lose face to the skilled worker. (Design dialog)

    Guo Degang has not received invitation week, Poland to resist the spring to be late

    “Actively prepares” with the spring late patron differently, “stock jorum” week, Poland and Guo Degang actually late are maintaining with the spring the distance.

    “Shanghai school is tasty and refreshing” week to set up the Polish surface to have the news to spread, because the running schedule was full, week, Poland have turned down the spring late director gold more invitation, “wants me moves the settled performance time to after the Spring Festival, this is impossible.”

    Similarly, Guo Degang is not too warm to the spring late manner, his manager Wang Hai said: “We have not received CCTV to invite at present, if receives, but must look that has the appropriate book. We are not the repel are spring late, but was Guo Degang’s program truly arranges by the end of the year, has signed the contract, even if received spring late invited, not necessarily had the time to attend that many dress rehearsals.”

    Chen Huilin, Wang Lihong are the dance class popular candidates

    According to the reporter, except the language class program, spring late director Jin Yue also has spent many time at the dance class program. Just gave birth Chen Huilin, creation good Wang Lihong, is in Jin Yueyan the popular candidates. But has the news to disclose, this year director the group to Wu Qilong, Su Youpeng, Chen Zhipeng has sent out the invitation in the brokerage firm separately, attempts to communicate adjusts three “small tiger” the time, hopes young Hu to be able in the Year of the Tiger spring in the evening again the reunion.

    It is reported that day amusement has recommended Li Yuchun to the director group specially. Cheng Long and Liu Yuanyuan “Country” has also been selected in the dance class program’s name list.

    ”Road of most splendid part the mega dance epic poem Revival” also has the possibility to manifest in the spring evening. (Article/reporter Lin Fang)

(Chief-editor: Zhang Gaiping)

An art exhibition showcasing changes through the eyes of Hong
Kong’s artists since its return to the motherland a decade ago
opened on Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

Over 40 works, ranging from sculptures to installation art, from
30 or so top Hong Kong artists will be on display until August
8.

Called “Reversing Horizons,” it demonstrates shifts of
ideologies and creative inspiration as the Chinese mainland becomes
an increasing importance in the lives of Hong Kong residents,
Xinhua news agency quotes the organizer as saying.

Date: July 8 – August 8, 10 am – 6 pm

Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, People’s Park, No. 231,
Nanjing West Road

Works from the “Reversing Horizons”
exhibition which is running at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Shanghai, from July 8 to August 8.

(CRI.cn July 9, 2007)

Shanghai’s Art Deco past, its unique nongtangs, and the
neighborhoods to which it owes its global reputation as “the Paris
of the East”, are being bulldozed as old buildings in parts of the
city are replaced with modern high-rise. Locals and architects
around the world are still weighing the impact of the drastic urban
development and can’t agree on whether it is for the better or the
worse. Yet while everybody else is talking, Canadian photographer
Greg Girard has documented the change of cityscape in a photo book
entitled Phantom Shanghai, with exhibitions in Shanghai,
Beijing, Hong Kong, and major cities in Canada.

Girard comes across as a pensive, philosophical photographer
with a rare talent for capturing beautifully haunting images of old
Shanghai. Some have called his new pictures anthropological. In
Girard’s words, he was simply trying to “make a record”.

Girard’s images of Shanghai show old buildings just before they
were demolished. There are no people in these images, yet the
pictures give the impression that life has been lived in these
places. With a focus on atmosphere and colors, Girard shows what
most people pay little attention to in the city: alleyways and
staircases, as well as small homes in the midst of demolition, with
glass skyscraper looming in the background and surrounding streets
already swept away by change.

The photos are, unusually, taken around dusk, when the falling
light reveals the hidden shadows of an urban landscape illuminated
by rubble and neon. The keyword is contrast.

“When I first visited Shanghai back in 1983 I was struck by how
the city looked as if there had been no urban development, at least
not for profit, since 1949,” Girard told China Daily.

“It was as if Shanghai had fallen off the map.”

Since then, Shanghai has become the focus of worldwide
attention. A lot has happened to the city’s appearance, especially
since the late 1990s. Girard’s project began to take in 2001, three
years after he moved to Shanghai.

“I wanted to see and capture this very specific, unique moment
in Shanghai’s history, which is not going to last forever. It is
the moment when an old city and a modern city are occupying the
same space. In my pictures, you can still see both at the same
time.

“There is a sense that Shanghai has been unnaturally preserved
almost by neglect or a lack of intervention. It seems simply an
accident, because no one intended to save the old parts of the
city. At the same time, the new unprecedented pace of urban
development appears equally accidental.”

The title Phantom Shanghai refers to the ghostly way in which
something is made to disappear, according to Girard.

“When something dies, something lingers. There is some sense of
it still being there, even when it is vanished,” said Girard,
comparing the experience with that of losing a limb. After an
accident, according to many reports, most amputees still feel a
twitch in their lost limb.

To the question of whether Phantom Shanghai was a nostalgic
project, Girard insisted that nostalgia held no interest for him.
When asked if the project should be perceived as political, Girard
commented:

“Like everything in China, it does have a political side to it.
But personally, I find it more to be of a historical nature. The
pictures give a sense of what I would call layers of history or the
heart-flow of time through the city.”

Girard suggested that it may well take an outsider to remind
others of the beauty in the flaws, and to notice the fascinating
phenomenon caught in what he calls “images of the threshold”.

In 1999, Girard published the Hong Kong photo book, City of
Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City, in cooperation with Ian
Lambot and Axel Menges.

According to Girard, the two cities that he has documented in
pictures, Hong Kong and Shanghai, do not compare. He explained that
Hong Kong became what it is today because it picked up where
Shanghai left off around 1949.

“Shanghai’s irrelevance became Hong Kong’s relevance back then.
But it is definitely a Shanghai moment right now,” said Girard.

During his endless hours of location hunting, Girard was
confronted with different local attitudes towards the ongoing
changes. Some said they felt “the old stuff” was holding them back.
Other insisted that there was “no need to destroy the past”.

Around Huaihai Park, by the newly renovated Xintiandi district,
some of the people whose lives have been directly affected by the
changes go daily to socialize in the shade. One of them is an
elderly man surnamed Xiong, who will soon have to leave the area.
Surrounded by elders playing mahjong and taking care of
grandchildren, Xiong gave his take on the battle for Shanghai’s
soul.

“I still live on Shunchang Lu just by the park, but my apartment
will be demolished and I will need to move far away to the Minhang
District. I really can’t do anything about the situation, but it is
for the good of Shanghai’s development. Sometimes it is needed for
people to sacrifice themselves in order to develop the city,” he
said.

A 48-year old male storekeeper by a nearby small restaurant at
Xingan Lu pointed out that the residents of Shanghai are in the
process of getting rid of the old in order to make way for the
new.

“There is nothing to be done about it,” he said as he let out a
weary sigh, “but at least the living standards are much better in
the new places.”

The Phantom Shanghai exhibition is at Studio Rouge in Shanghai
and at 798 Art District in Beijing.

(China Daily July 4, 2007)

Picasso masterpieces probably will exhibit in China during the
Olympic Games as part of its global tour, according to the Picasso
Museum Wednesday.

Museum director Anne Baldassari said talks are under way with
China for the exhibition to be shown in Beijing during the Olympic
Games in August 2008.

About 350 masterpieces from the museum in Paris are going on
world tour early next year. The first destination is Madrid and
then Japan.

The Picasso Retrospective is also planned to travel to Abu Dhabi
and the United States next year, with stops planned in Brazil and
Russia in 2009, Baldassari said.

The Picasso Museum, which houses 500 paintings and sculptures by
Pablo Picasso along with countless drawings, photographs and
prints, will be closed from October 2008 to the end of 2010 to
allow for major renovation work.

But some of the works by the Spanish painter will be on display
at the Grand Palais museum during the closure.

(Agencies via Xinhua News Agency June 21, 2007)

Liu Tiejian, a farmer from Pingdingshang city in central China’s
Henan province, has succeeded in painting with natural seeds.

Local newspaper the Henan Daily, reports that the
41-year-old has been an art-lover since his childhood. Along with
teaching himself how to do pencil sketches, water colors and
traditional Chinese paintings, he also developed his own methods
for doing pyrography and egg-carving.

Inspired by a TV show, Liu Tiejian started painting with natural
seeds in 2005. The specially-processed seeds are glued onto
cardboard, glass or wood blocks. Through careful design, the
natural texture and color of the seeds form artistic compositions,
combining elements of both traditional Chinese and western painting
aesthetics.

As his seed-painting craft matured, Liu Tiejian began to grow
experimental plants in order to collect their seeds of varying
color. He also taught his skill to fellow villagers, saying that he
was quite willing to teach those who also love art.

Liu Tiejian, a farmer from Pingdingshang city
in central China’s Henan Province, uses pincers and toothpicks to
paint a running horse with natural seeds, in this undated
photo.

This undated photo shows a picture called “A
Kid’s Fun”, which is made from natural seeds such as millet,
sesame, rapeseed and shallot. The artist Liu Tiejian, is a farmer
from Pingdingshang city in central China’s Henan
Province. 

 

(CRI.cn June 13, 2007)

The bright silver arch, with a mirror positioned underneath, and
a uniquely designed wooden bench are out of the ordinary. Welcome
to the world of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), Spain’s most eccentric
architect. The exhibition, Cosmos Gaudi: Architecture, Geometry and
Design, is now running at the Capital Museum in Beijing until
August 2. 

Jointly organized by Spain’s State Corporation for Overseas
Cultural Action (SEACEX), the Capital Museum of Beijing, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA Shanghai), the exhibition
showcases 16 original works, 17 reproductions and 26 models.

Daniel Giralt-Miracle, curator of this exhibition, says the show
will present the different worlds that constituted the cosmos of
Gaudi with an analysis of his life, his buildings and structures
and materials, through a collection of photographs, scale models,
computer graphics and furniture.

At the exhibition, Giralt-Miracle asked a female visitor to sit
on a 100-year-old wooden bench and explained to her the seat’s
purpose. “The height is designed by people’s legs’ length. The
holes on the bench are for the purpose of ventilation. The arch
shape on the back is to rest your arm on. They were all designed to
make people feel comfortable,” he says.

“There are some geniuses in human history,” he says of Gaudi,
whose unfinished work, the Sagrada Familia, is one of Spain’s most
visited tourist sites. Gaudi is probably the most creative
architect after Michelangelo, Giralt-Miracle says.

“By looking at Gaudi’s works, it is possible to get overwhelmed
by the exuberance of its forms, the richness of its colors or the
magic of its symbolism,” the curator says.

The exhibition is the fourth organized by SEACEX during the Year
of Spain in China. The genius of Spain’s most famous architect is
still largely unknown by many Chinese, Isabel Serrano Sanchez,
director general of SEACEX says.

For design students who adore Gaudi’s works, the exhibition
offers a direct and vivid glimpse into the artist’s world. Huang
Zhu, a student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, was impressed
by the unique style and design of the exhibits.

“They are so different with other European styles in terms of
shape and color. Also its focus on function in designing the
furniture is very inspiring,” Huang says.

Gaudi’s designs, such as La Pedrera in Barcelona, differ
dramatically in form and color from other European styles.File
photos

 

However, video and models only scratch the surface of the
architect’s work, Huang says. “We want to know more about him and
his works. It would be great to actually see his real buildings in
Spain.”

After the Capital Museum of Beijing, the exhibition will move to
MOCA Shanghai, where it will run until September 23.

(China Daily June 12, 2007)

Illusionist 3D street art by US artist Kurt Wenner draws you in.
The vivid “anamorphic” scenes depict “Fishing in Old Shanghai” and
“Interrupted Tea Party” in chalk that rains will wash away, says Xu
Wei.

This is marvelous illusionist 3D “street art” that seems to
belong in a museum, instead of in Xintiandi where summer rains will
wash the brilliant chalk away. The captivating creations that draw
us in, “Fishing in Old Shanghai” and “Interrupted Tea Party,” will
remain on film and in our memories.

US artist and architect Kurt Wenner is known for his majestic
“anamorphic” art that often reminds viewers of classical art. He
also paints illusionist pop art. Figures and shapes seem to escape
from their frames, in the manner of Michaelangelo and other
European fresco painters.

Wenner has his own geometry. They are usually “anamorphic” at
first sight but they seem to rise from and fall into the ground
when viewed from one point in space.

Inspiration for the two works, “Fishing” and “Tea Party,” comes
from the artist’s first impression of the city and its culture, a
combination of Oriental spirit and Western fashion.

“My experience in Shanghai is special to me,” Wenner says. “In
some way Shanghai reminds me of different cities I visited 25 years
ago. The city still has a lot of flavor and character that doesn’t
appear today in the Western world.”

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Wenner attended the Rhode Island
School of Design and Art Center College of Design before working
for NASA as an advanced scientific space illustrator.

In 1982, he moved to Italy to pursue his love of classical art.
His knowledge and passion for Renaissance classicism provided a
foundation for his own art. In 1984, he invented an art form all
his own – anamorphic or illusionistic street painting, all very
large.

The form of perspective known as anamorphism was used by the
great European masters to give the illusion of soaring architecture
and floating figures in ceiling frescoes. Wenner adjusted this
geometry to his own works, where painted forms appear
three-dimensional.

“Artistic geometry was actually one of the most fascinating
subjects in the classical tradition,” Wenner says. “My paintings
invite rediscovery of many artistic traditions, as I borrow from
mythology, allegory, literature, and theater.”

He especially enjoys working on large pieces that “encompass”
the viewer.

“I enjoy teasing my audience with a wealth of allusions -
historical, stylistic, and perceptual,” he adds. “Even if viewers
cannot reference the story it tells, they sense that one exists,
thus stimulating their curiosity. While some recognize and
appreciate the content, others may admire the richly embellished
surfaces or technical virtuosity.”

He believes that some suppositions in the book “The Da Vinci
Code” are not imaginary. “Many secrets of geometry and symbolism
actually exist in Da Vinci’s artworks,” he says.

Almost all of Wenner’s paintings are done on commission and the
majority of them are on a large scale. They can be found in
corporate high-rises, government buildings, hotel lobbies, as well
as churches and museums worldwide.

His favorite work is “Dies Irae,” which is based on the Last
Judgment. This huge creation was praised by Pope John Paul II in
Mantua, Italy. The Pope signed the mural, officially recognizing
(some) street painting as an official form of sacred art.

Wenner has also inspired many communities to create their own
street painting festivals.

Today there are dozens of street painting festivals in the
United States and worldwide that attract thousands of professional
and amateur artists, as well as children.

“Though rain will soon come down and wash away almost all the
outdoor paintings done in chalk, the fun is mostly about the
process itself,” he says.

For decades artists have exhibited finished works in art
galleries. But through street painting, artists are able to set
aside their fears and self-doubt and share the process of creating
a work with the public.

Wenner says that although the art form is still new to Chinese
people, it can flourish and fill a great need for the artists and
the public.

Wenner has been living with his family in Bettona, an ancient
Italian town, for more than 20 years. His years in Italy gave him a
special understanding of and appreciation for architecture, as well
as the important heritage of architectural ornamentation.

He has spent the last several years designing large
residences.

However, in the future, Wenner says he will paint stronger and
more compelling pieces and take photographs of the street artwork
on tour.

“From the beginning of my career, my main artistic motivation
was to rediscover, transform and share neglected ideas from the
past,” he says.

“I have been fortunate to be able to share my work with millions
of people. I hope that my work will eventually inspire other
artists to learn more about the vast and rich patrimony of European
art, so that others can enjoy the wealth of ideas that is often
hidden with the passage of time.”

(Shanghai Daily June 12, 2007)