Bandi Panda Fashion Show
2007-10-23 17:05

NOVEMBER 4th 2007, 3:00 PM
CENTRAL HALL, D. PARK
798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiu Xian Qiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015

Chinese International Fashion Week (08 Spring/Summer) will be held from November 2nd-11th in Beijing, including 40 fashion shows and popular tendency releases by top Chinese and Foreign fashion designers, brands, and artists. Among them, ZHAO Bandi’s Bandi Panda Fashion show will be launched at central hall in D. Park on NOVEMBER 4TH 2007, 3:00 PM, surprising both the Chinese contemporary art filed and fashion field.

ZHAO Bandi, always accompanied by his panda, has become a significant cultural code in contemporary Chinese art. His art, in an unusual way, continuously stimulated Chinese society’s multiple potentialities. In this Zhao Bandi’s panda couture tornado, he is going to show the color and fad in panda style, and the unique spectacle of Chinese contemporary society on the catwalk of haute couture.

Zhao Bandi was born in 1966 in Beijing, where he lives and works. He graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988. Since 1993, his works have been shown at international exhibitions, and his project “Zhao Bandi & Panda” has been on public display in Shanghai, Milan, London etc. His main solo exhibitions include The Tales of Zhao Bandi and the Panda, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2006); Moving in the margins between history and society, Zhao Bandi creates a new, hitherto latent subject of social action. What does this mean?, Beijing Commune, Beijing (2006); The Panda Man Film Party-Who will attend the event?, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2004), etc. His important group exhibitions include The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), Queensland, Australia (2006); The First Guangzhou Trienniale-Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2002); The 3rd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2000); 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale-APERTO over ALL, Venice, Italy (1999); Every Day-11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (1998).

R.S.V.P. ZHAO Bandi Fashion Design Center, Tel: 0086-13901309929

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