时间：2009年3月20日星期五晚20:30（巴黎时区）
地点：法国巴黎东京宫
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一年前，艺术家赵半狄于2008中国时装周成功推出其熊猫时装，今年，他将在巴黎东京宫这一国际舞台向世界展示中国的熊猫时装！熊猫为中国的标志性符号，中国艺术家赵半狄成功地占有了这个国家符号，并通过令人叹为观止的想象力和令人眼花缭乱的艺术方式向世界展示了一个不一样的中国。他的作品包括图片，录像和表演。其作品的开放性和所具有的干预中国社会的能量让他成为今天中国最著名和最具影响力的艺术家之一。
他的熊猫时装秀就是这样的颠峰之作。在他之前，没有一个设计师或艺术家以时装这个载体如此彻底的将中国社会的各阶层，各种人物亮相于T型台。观众在时装角色中寻找和发现自己，感到的是震惊和不适应感。一些人们司通见惯的人群如妓女、二奶、腐败官员等在绚丽的时尚舞台亮相，让人们在开心嘻嘻哈哈之间反思我们今天的社会和生活。严肃和玩笑纠集在一起。熊猫时装秀是中国当代艺术的一个伟大而美妙的作品。
赵半狄，1966年生于北京，至今生活工作在此。1988年毕业于中央美院。从1993年起他的作品开始在国际展览展出，包括：悉尼双年展（1998），第四十八届威尼斯双年展（1999），第一届广州三年展（2002）。他的项目“赵半狄和熊猫咪”在上海，伦敦，米兰等很多地方公共展出。
东京宫（Palais de Tokyo）坐落于巴黎塞纳河畔，前身是现安置于蓬皮杜艺术中心的国立现代艺术博物馆，展馆建筑与巴黎市立现代艺术博物馆空中相连，与埃菲尔铁塔隔河相望。它在巴黎的当代艺术领域中占据着举足轻重的地位，对世界当代艺术潮流都有着重要的影响，他的每一个展览都引起广泛的关注与反响。自2002年1月开馆，开馆时间（正午至午夜）、风格（强调休闲与教育功能）、策展手法（发掘新人、重新展出艺术前辈）方面均予以创新，其参观人数居全欧艺术机构之首；流行媒体如《Elle》、《Vogue》都将它纳入报导。
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Press Release: ‘China, A Nation of Pandas — BANDI PANDA Fashion Show’
Time: 20th March 2009 at 8.30 PM
Venue: Palais de Tokyo – 13, avenue du Président Wilson – 75116 Paris, France
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Since artist Zhao Bandi successfully exhibited his panda fashion during 2008 Chinese International Fashion Week, he is now going to present BANDI PANDA fashion show at Palais de Tokyo to the world! Panda is a symbol of China. Chinese artist Zhao Bandi takes this unqiue symbol as his own, and uses it to show the world a very distinctive China through his incredible creativity in the way of art. Zhao Bandi's works include Photograph, Video and Performance.The works of Zhao Bandi, known by its openness and the power of interference to Chinese society, have made him one of the most famous and influential artists in China.
His panda fashion show is one of the very typical and fantastic works. Before him, no any designer or artist has ever put the whole chinese society including each stratum and all kinds of typical people on the catwalk. Audience might feel shocked and uncomfortable when they find themselves from these characters. The common people as well as prostitute, concubine, corrupt official, etc, are presented in the same fabulous fashion show, which entertain us while also urge us to take a serious think about our life and society today. Panda fashion show is a great and beautiful chinese contemporary art work.
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, including the Sydney Biennale (1998), 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and 1st Guangzhou Triennale (2002). His project “Zhao Bandi & Panda” has been on public display in Shanghai, Milan, London and elsewhere.
The Palais de Tokyo, an art deco building that dates from 1937 and reopened in 2001, which is right next door to the Museum of Modern Art at the Trocadero, has opened as a showcase for contemporary art. The idea is to have no permanent collections, but to let experimental artists have somewhere in central Paris to express themselves, hence an opening full of “installation” and “interactive” art.
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【编辑：姚丹】
