Exhibition »Keeping Face«
Poster design: Uwe Loesch
Poster design: Uwe Loesch
Exhibition »Keeping Face«
Chinese packaging design at Klingsor-Museum
Together with the art department of Hochschule für Gestaltung, Klingspor Museum presents an exhibition of current trends in Chinese packaging design. Chinese books as well as packaging techniques have always been rather more sophisticated and sensual than Western creations in this field.
Works of students of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA) will be shown as well as those by Gu Chuanxi, professor for packaging design and pioneer in contemporary Chinese packaging design.
Shanghai Style has been trend setting as early as in the 1920s, and not only in fashion, but also in graphic and product design. The notion »Shanghai is different« is still valid today. With the foundation of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art almost exactly 10 years ago, the metropolis keeps developing in this direction. SIVA has been an international partner of HfG Offenbach for many years.
The dean of the art department at HfG, Prof. Klaus Hesse, initiated and organized the show in close cooperation with Klingsor's director Dr. Stefan Soltek.
Project management was led by Xuan Zheng/HfG Offenbach and Yi Jiang/SIVA, Jason Hu/SIVA
Gu Chuanxi is a professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art: he is dean of the department for packaging and communications design. He also owns the Shanghai Chuanxi Art Design Studio and works as director of the Asian Arts and Science Association and the Shanghai Packaging Design Association. Gu Chuanxi’s works have won many awards. He is renowned as the trailblazer of 21st century packaging design in China.
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA) is arguably one of the most ambitions investments into design and art in the world. A campus of more than 185,000 square meters provides space for 7 different departments such as art, media, performance, fashion, design and management of culture.
Exhibition
October 30th to November 22nd, 2015
Opening
October 30th, 2015, 7pm
Klingspor Museum
Herrnstrasse 80
63065 Offenbach
Opening hours
Tue, Thu, Fr 10am to -5 pm / Wed 2pm to 7 pm / Sa, Sun 11am to 4pm
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi
Packaging design by Gu Chuanxi