Beijing

Solo show

Dutch artist Guido van der Werve is bringing his video work to Beijing's M Woods Museum. It is the artist's first solo show in Asia. The video work Number veertien, home took the artist six years to film. It is a story combining the narratives of Alexander the Great, the death of composer Frederic Chopin and the artist's personal narrative. Like most of Werve's works, it features soul-stirring music and poetic images. Since Werve's solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2012, he has gained worldwide reputation.

10 am - 6 pm, Tuesdays and Saturdays, March 20-June 20. M Woods Museum, D-06, 798 Art Zone, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang district. 010-8312-3450.

Ink and oil

After devoting himself to Chinese calligraphy for decades, Liu Youju has turned his attention to abstract painting. Liu's exhibition of abstract paintings to be opened at Today Art Museum will feature dozens of his latest works in which he explores a combination of Chinese ink with Western oil painting.

10 am-6 pm, March 14-28. Today Art Museum, 32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang district. 010-5876-0600.

Shanghai

Project realism

Installation art from two Israeli artists Daniel Shoshan and Amit Matalon is featured in a new exhibition Live_Trace. Shoshan and Matalon take an almost scientific approach to their art, taking photographic and drawing records of real landscapes and using them as raw material for further processing. They then assemble these images in a laboratory environment to create works of visual mapping, traces of memories and reflections.

9 am-5 pm, Tuesday-Sunday, through March 31. Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 27 Duolun Road, Hongkou district. 021-5609-5728.

Wood prints

Wood prints by Judy Oong are on display at Okura Garden Hotel in Shanghai. Also known as Yung Ching-yu, Oong is a singer and actress from Taiwan, who has lived and worked in Japan for decades. Her career focus is wood print and her work has been selected to be featured in several national art shows in Japan.

10 am-7 pm, March 18-24. Okura Garden Hotel Shanghai, 58 Maoming Road, Luwan district. 021-6415-1111.

(China Daily 03/10/2015 page22)