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Jean-Francois Rauzier 《Hyperphotos 》.

At Galerie Paris-Beijing / Beijing

From Saturday 3rd of March to 18th April 2012

Opening the 3rd of March ， 5 PM. Solo exhibition of photography

Jean-Francois Rauzier lives a double life. By day he is a renowned commercial photographer reputed for his work in advertising， and widely praised for his still-lifes， as well as his sculpture， painting and poetry. By night， he haunts less civilized preserves， scavenging urban and abandoned industrial zones for traces of their past. He has the meticulous craftsman’s unsparing eye for details while his vision is informed by the alchemists’ insight into the hidden power of raw materials. His photographs transform stone， metal， wood and paper into visual poems where the

ordinary is elevated into the timeless. Transcendence is achieved by his unwavering focus on physical details: Gold is created out of a rusty nail， a sandy desert emerges from a scarred wall， and shark skin is conjured from a stretch of mottled， cracked pavement.

Jean-Fran?ois Rauzier has been scouring the streets of Paris since 1986， baring its unhealed scars， and then venturing further to its abandoned industrial sprawls. During his nocturnal wanderings， he stalks his prey: Tiny， ghostly forms hacked into a crumbling wall; intimations of fossils embedded in asphalt are sought-after treasures. By night’s suggestive light， the photographer would metamorphose a slab of concrete into an ocean and spin a drenched sidewalk into a swirl of stars. His show， “The Flesh of a City” was exhibited to great acclaim in Paris， Neuilly and Clermont-Ferrand.

Since 1992， Jean-Francois Rauzier has been even more deeply immersed in the “soul” of substance. He transfigures the object by the light of a lamppost， a flashlight or a filter， abolishing all relief and perspective. Every image becomes a microcosmos. In time， this personal introspection has matured and softened. He veers towards more ephemeral horizons – finding serenity between earth and sky， and accompanying his photos with his personal poetry.

Today， Jean-Francois Rauzier works on a different scale， spilling into a new imaginative dimension. Broadening his quest， he is intoxicated by fields and infinite horizons. A native of Normandy， he has retained a love for grey， tormented skies， and skimming， preternatural light. He now conjures a more expansive world whose sweeping poetry still conceals a plethora of minute details， detectable to only the most attentive viewer.

His technique is to capture hundreds of details in his lens and then juxtapose and sculpt them into a monumental and panoramic photographic image. His bare bucolic landscapes are

inert and oblivious to time. Only the perspective given by a road or a pathway marks the frontier between the untouched and the human.

This surrealist universe is mysteriously void and sometimes eerie. Here， armchairs drift on the waters only to be submerged， hundreds of frames hang in a forest， celluloid swimmers lie scattered on a path， balloons drift from a rusty fence in the middle of an open field. Departure， flight， disappearance， escape， abandonment， absence， tracks， traces and memories are the recurring themes. Yet， despite the intimations of emptiness， life is fully present: Look closely and you will find it in the form of a spider weaving in the underbrush， in the scratching of an inquisitive little rat， in the padding of a far off cat or the imaginary flutter of a caged bird. Here， the infinitely small encounters the cosmic， details partake of eternity， envisioned by the ceaseless roaming of an artist-as-seeker’s soul.

SUM41 World Tour Beijing Concert 2012

Time: 2012/4/4

Venue: MasterCard Center (Formerly the Wukesong Arena) Price: 180/380/480/580/1080/1280

Tickets are available at 64177845

Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax， Ontario， active since 1996. The current members are Deryck Whibley (lead vocals， rhythm guitar)， Tom Thacker (lead guitar， backing vocals)， Jason McCaslin (bass guitar， backing vocals) and Steve Jocz (drums).

In 1999， the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut album， All Killer， No Filler in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album， “Fat Lip”， which reached number-one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains the band’s most successful single to date. All Killer No Filler’ was certified platinum in the United States， Canada and in the UK. The band has since released four more studio albums: Does This Look Infected? (2002)， Chuck (2004) Underclass Hero(2007) and Screaming Bloody Murder (2011). The three albums before Screaming Bloody Murder have been certified platinum in Canada. Their fifth studio album， Screaming Bloody Murder， was released on March 29， 2011.

Lorin Maazel and Philharmonia Orchestra Concert

Time: 20124/5

Venue: NCPA-Concert Hall

Price: --

Tickets are available at 64177845

Daniel Harding and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Concert

Time: 2012/3/9

Venue: NCPA-Concert Hall

Price: RMB 200/400/600/780/880/980 Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845

Pendulum DJ SET Verse Asia Tour Concert

Time: 2012/3/10

Venue: The One Club

Price: RMB 200/250/300

Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845

Formed during 2002 by three musicians from Western Australia with similar visions and musical backgrounds， Pendulum’s mission has always been to pull together their production resources， ideas and influences from various styles of music， to create a new sound that they felt was missing from dance music. The individual members behind Pendulum have been active in Perth’s live music scene for several years: producer / vocalist / keyboardist Rob Swire and producer / bassist Gareth McGrillen played together in the acclaimed Perth band Xygen， while Paul ‘El Hornet’ Harding had been a veteran of the Perth DJ scene.

Roxette 2012 Live In Beijing

Time: 2012/3/12

Venue: MasterCard Center (Formerly the Wukesong Arena) Price: RMB 280/480/680/880

Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845

Which Swedish band was more successful in America than ABBA? Yes， the Swedish band that had more number ones and Top 10 hits than ABBA in the US (and once featured on their very own postage stamp) are coming back to China in 2012. Gehua-LiveNation is thrilled to announce that legendary pop duo Roxette are coming to China to play two very special live shows at the MasterCard Center (fomerly the Wukesong Arena)in Beijing on Monday March 12， 2012 and at Shanghai Grand Stage on Wednesday March 14， 2012 with tickets going on sale soon.

Roxette have numerous massive hits in China including It Must Have Been Love， Joyride， The Look， Listen To Your Heart and Fading Like A Flower. Their hits were also covered by Hong Kong superstars s u c h a s Alan Tam(The Look， Da nge rous)， Leon Lai (Joyride) and S h i r l e y Kwan (Listen To Your Heart)

Roxette’s brand new album C h a r m School was released by EMI earlier last year. Charm School went straight to number one on the German， Czech and Swiss album charts the week of its release and is heading for platinum status in Sweden.

With a catalogue of mega hits including It Must Have Been Love， Joyride， Listen To Your Heart， How Do You Do， Dressed For Success and The Look， this is set to be one of THE live events of the 2012 calendar. So grab all your friends， listen to your heart and get yourself dressed for success and get ready to join the joyride with Roxette in 2012!

Paul Kalkbrenner @ Berlin Caling Asia Tour Concert

Time: 2012/3/17

Venue: The One Club

Price: RMB 200/250/300 Tickets are available

at 86-10-64177845

Cool DJ Agency is proud to announce that Paul Kalkbrenner has been the most innovative European Electronic Music artist for the past five years. Even his previous releases on B Pitch Control are outstanding in terms of structure， constraint and melody.

Besides being a musician Paul Kalkbrenner is also know for playing the main role “DJ IKarus” in the movie “Berlin Caling”. The movie projects how the live could be as a Berlin based Techno Producer. The viewer follows Ikarus on his jouney through certain highs and lows a Producer/DJ could go through and gets an insight view of a different live style in a music metropole such as Berlin. Through out the movie Tracks from Paul’s Album “Berlin Calling” are played.

Even though reality shows have been trying to prove otherwise， a successful career as a musician， even as a pop star， cannot be forced with a pre-packaged crash course. As of 2010， Paul Kalkbrenner has tallied up more than 15 years of experience as a producer and live act， all the while learning what it means to go purposefully from one step to the next. When the Berlin Wall fell， he was 12. The soundtrack of his youth， and of the majority of his generation， was still in its infancy， awaiting its breakthrough: techno music.

Together with Paul Kalkbrenner， BPitch Control gained a strong momentum. Paul’s third album Self (2004) would mark the beginning of a new era. His melodic sound， with its affinity for grand emotional gestures， obeyed the logic of the dancefloor， but Self introduced a narrative aesthetic， serving as a soundtrack to a film that did not exist (at least， not yet). “GebrünnGebrünn”， released one year later， became a crossover hit.

TNT Theatre Britain Presents: David Copperfield

Time: 2012/3/30-2012/3/31

Venue: Chaoyang 9 Theatres-Che

Price: RMB 60/120/180/280/VIP

Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845

José Carreras 2012 Live In Beijing

Time: 2012/4/1

Venue: Great Hall of the People

Price: --

Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845

José Carreras is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. Born in Barcelona， he made his debut on the opera stage at the age of 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses and in the recording studio.

He gained fame with a wider audience as one of The Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in a series of mass concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003. Carreras is also known for his humanitarian work as the president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia)， which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.

Carreras has received numerous awards and distinctions for both his artistic and humanitarian work. These include: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur (France); Gran Croce di Cavaliere and Grande Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana; Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria; the Cruz de Oro del Orden Civil de la Solidaridad Social from Queen Sofia of Spain， The Prince of Asturias Prize， and the Bundesverdienstkreuz from the Federal Republic of Germany. On 23 February 2004， the Austrian Post Office issued a 1€ stamp to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his debut at the Vienna Staatsoper.

In Spain the central plaza in Sant Joan d’Alacant bears his name， as do two theatres – the Auditori Josep Carreras in Vila-seca (near Tarragona) and The Teatro Josep Carreras in Fuenlabrada.