{"id":7,"date":"2017-05-08T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savage-creations.co.uk\/miniwar\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-05-17T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:15:44","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This stunning free exhibition of contemporary sculptures came about when 28 artists, one from each EU country and a further three artists from China, were invited to create their individual response to the First Emperor\u2019s Terracotta Army in the city of Xian in Shaanxi Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The resulting re-interpretation of these warriors, serving figures, acrobats and animals forms this exhibition with each sculpture also reflecting a discreet aspect of the artist\u2019s individual culture.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by Brussels based Inspiring Culture, as part of the EU-CHINA 2012 Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the exhibition initially toured to eight museums\u00a0throughout China widening the appreciation of European contemporary arts before touring to\u00a0six locations in Europe.\u00a0 The Edinburgh exhibition is the penultimate prior to its last appearance\u00a0in the autumn at\u00a0the new Zaha Hadid building\u00a0\u201cDiamond Vessel&#8221; in Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting a modern cross cultural view of one of China&#8217;s most well-known historic attractions, it forms an artistic bridge between the past and the present.\u00a0 The\u00a0exhibition\u2019s significance has been further heightened, opening as it does\u00a0at a time of unique political flux caused by BREXIT.\u00a0 Read on to hear from Dr Pick Keobandith, Director of Inspiring Culture.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/reflections-from-dr-pick-keobandith\/\">READ ON &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stunning free exhibition of contemporary sculptures came about when 28 artists, one from each EU country and a further three artists from China, were invited to create their individual response to the First Emperor\u2019s Terracotta Army in the city of Xian in Shaanxi Province. The resulting re-interpretation of these warriors, serving figures, acrobats and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk\/warriors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}