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December 13th

Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento
Piazza della Signoria, Firenze

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Dong

Xie DONG

Designer, Xie Dong

Xie Dong, a famous international bone china designer and artist, was born in Beijing and live in Beijing now. The idea that she always persists and put into practice is to seize the ephemeral moments in life and nature, such as flowing water, melting ice, floating clouds and complicated and confusing shadows in sun; these things that seem invisible and weightless are her inspiration sources. The inspiration source of her first work is a chocolate cover. When she was eating chocolates, she accidently found the folds of tin-foil papers were very beautiful, so she made her first lined cup with bone china, replacing papers. She smartly transferred the soft lined paper into hard china, achieving the process of material transformation. Just as what she said, “With eyes closed, I sense with my hands---- all that is flowing, floating, weightless, shapeless, uncertain in the air….and then command them to reveal themselves with a conjuration, to reveal their true identity of physical shape”. All series of her works, including series of fold, series of water flowing, series of inflating and series of melting ice, reflect the altitudinal specificality of the works sufficiently.

Meanwhile, these products make Xie Dong gain attentions and encomium from many media and the fashion world. Her works won the Best Chinaware Design Award of 2005 ELLE DECORATION and the Best Lighting and Accessories Award of EDIDA in 2007. She was invited to many important exhibitions around the world, including Asia, America, and Oceania, Europe. And her works were collected by many art museums. She was invited to Miami Design Exhibition; in 2007, she attended Today’s China Art Exhibition; in 2009, she was invited by ATCASA International Design Channel (Exhibition of small gifts designed by masters of 2009 holding by the headquarters of ATCASA in Italy ) and attended “Design in China” in Today’s Art Museum in Beijing, where my works were collected; in 2010, she attended CDM(China Design Market) exhibition in Milan; and in this year, she was invited to nǚ yì shù series-V in Melbourne and the Bright Dreams in Hague; attended the “China New Design”—the official project of Sino-Italian culture year and my works were exhibited in Milan three years exhibition design museum and Turin palace gallery in three months; attended the Beijing international design Triennial in Beijing held by the National Museum of China. Ms. Xie, who once was a visiting lecturer of Central Academy of Fine Arts, was invited as a designer of Italian Famous Brand DRIADE and has built partnerships with lots of famous brands and enterprises at home and overseas.

Her works are so popular and welcome in many large cities, whether in China or the world. It has been a fashion, and her works have been the perfect household articles in modern domestic life. They have been a kind of inornate luxury goods which seem useful, and at the same time, acted on our spirit life and material life deeply.