Name Yi Zhou Role Film director | Known for Chinese art | |
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Yi Zhou is a Chinese leading multimedia video artist born in China. At the age of eight she moved to Rome and later graduated after reading Political Science and Economics in London, England. On leaving University she embarked on a career in Paris as an artist. Zhou has created 3D short art films shown at her solo collateral exhibitions by Venice biennale and she was 3 times selected at Sundance film festival in competition, Cannes film festival shorts as well as for the fashion industry and using social media platforms also to introduce her creativity.
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- Yi zhou at tedxfactory798
- Bryan ferry soundtrack yi zhou film new shorelines
- 1280 TowersPlace Vendme
- Modeling Career
- Collaborations
- References
Yi Zhou is currently preparing her first feature film.
Bryan ferry soundtrack yi zhou film new shorelines
1280 Towers—Place Vendôme
In 2008, the Comité Vendôme asked Zhou to create a public project for Place Vendôme. She created an artwork based on the symbolic meaning of the Vendôme Column that gives its name to the square. Zhou created two 8 meter-high columns, located on a diagonal axis with the Vendôme Column as the central point. Each of these two columns is composed of 1280 small towers that are placed on a circular. This project was commissioned by art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso and it was presented before the world expo in Shanghai.
In 2010, Zhou relocated back to China and founded her studio and production company in Shanghai. She has been compared Yoko Ono and Cindy Sherman by Vogue China as an active image maker switching in front and behind the camera. In 2011, Zhou was also named Tudou.com's (Chinese would-be YouTube) art-director and serves as art and fashion advisory member at Sina.com, which owns Chinese Twitter (Sina Weibo),she was also named Beauty ambassador of tencent beauty.
From 2010 to 2011, Zhou was brand ambassador for Clarins and sponsored by Clarins for her solo show in Venice during the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Since 2012, she has collaborated with the Italian luxury eyewear brand, Persol and Italian luxury brand, Hogan, Pringle, Chanel.
In 2011,her artwork DVF 2011 premiered in Beijing at Pace Gallery commissioned by Diane Von Fustenberg for her exhibition Journey of a Dress. Instead of painting or photographing Diane for her portrait, she created an original video work, music by the Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone, as a moving 3D portrait featuring Diane as an iconic figure from whose mouth other icons escape.
As a Chinese social media ambassador, Yi Zhou also developed a series of online moving portraits of key international players from the movie/fashion/art industries, posted on Tudou.com and Weibo.com. This project introduced these celebrities to the Chinese Twitter users, and introduced Zhou's approach to her work as a multimedia artist by creating portraits for social media only. In September 2011, Zhou created a short film featuring herself and Nicola Formichetti which gained international attention and showing emerging Chinese fashion designers' works.
In 2013, she worked with the French couture jewelry house Gripoix designing their first artist-collection entitled Pineapple's Secret. Her animations have inspired clothing collection by the French hip brand, Each x Other. In the same year she was also hired by Iceberg brand to do a 360 degree cloting capsule collection.
In 2013, Yi Zhou collaborated with Bryan Ferry for a new animated work premiered at her solo exhibition at the Vladivostock Biennale and also showed at her solo exhibition in 2014-2015 at Le Cube in Paris.
Modeling Career
Yi Zhou is also a model, she has appeared in Vogue (Paris, Italy, Germany, China, Mexico, UK and USA), Uomo Vogue, Elle (US, France), Numéro (China), Marie-Claire (China), Bazaar (China), and i-D (UK and Italy). She has appeared on the cover of Vogue China Beauty, Modern Weekly, South China Morning Post, and Vogue Italia Gioielli.
Yi Zhou has worked with photographers including Karl Lagerfeld, Patrick Demarchelier, Inez and Vinoodh, Jen-Baptiste Mondino, and Raymond Meier.
Yi Zhou has appeared in global advertising campaigns for Persol, Levis, Conrad Hotel, T-Galleria by DFS, Iceberg and Hennessy.
Collaborations
Zhou has been selected by the Sundance Film Festival on three consecutive occasions. Since 2010, Zhou has been appointed as art director of Tudou.com. It was Zhou's initiative to bridge The Sundance Institute members with the 2011 Tudou Video Festival in China.
YiZhou has also actively participated to philanthropic works such as: UN World Climate Change in South Africa UNDP rio+!, for Unesco Marine heritage world and Rush Philantropics auction in 2015, and most recently for Natalia Vodianova’s Naked Heart Foundation by participating with an artwork commissioned by Etam.
Yi Zhou currently develops her own screenplays and produces her upcoming feature films between LA and China bridging the west and east culture in a dynamic dialogue by also giving public speeches at TEDx Paris Salon, Tedx 798 and LVMH labour day and Financial Times Luxury Talks.