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VENICE, Italy, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Invited artist and Suzhou embroiderer Yao Huifen said she spent 20 years learning the craft.
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The exhibition will open to the public on Sunday, and runs to November 26.
Yao and other three artists have been invited to extend and interpret Chinese artistic traditions in a show titled "Continuum - Generation by Generation" at the China Pavilion at this year's Art Biennale in Venice.
The China Pavilion is one of 86 national pavilions at the Art Biennale. Its core theme is that individual acts of creation take place in a communal context that stretches across the dimensions of both space and time.
The Continuum show at the Pavilion mixes embroidery and sculpture, painting and performance, video and puppetry Luka Modric Jersey , installations and photography to explore the notion that artists stand in an unbroken line from antiquity to now.
Yao made nine pieces for the show, each made using a different embroidery technique and up to 1,000 different colors.
"Some of the techniques I use go back 1,000 years," Yao said. "Taken all together, the pieces stand for continuity."
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In a mesmerizing black-and-white video unfolding in slow motion over four minutes, grey and black waves rise, curl and break across the lower half of the frame.
Above them, bolts of lightning flash within banks of roiling black clouds, against a distant range of tall black mountains.
When asked how he achieved this effect, which is spellbinding Luca Zidane Jersey , peaceful and unsettling at the same time, Tang said he filmed on location in his native Taiwan, then enhanced the footage with a computer program.
"I needed a prehistoric-looking landscape, which is hard to find," he explained. "It took me four months to prepare for the shoot, then two months to actually get the footage I wanted."
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He works closely with Wang Tianwen, a shadow puppet master from east China's Zhejiang province, whose work is also featured in the Continuum show.
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Indian Home Ministry and the United States officials signed an agreement on Thursday to join the global terror database maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) of the US, according to media reports.
This was agreed upon by the two sides days ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to US on June 7 and 8.
""An arrangement between the authorized governmental agencies of the Government of India and the Government of the United States of America for exchange of terrorist screening information was signed here today. The arrangement was signed by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and Richard Verma Karim Benzema Jersey , Ambassador of the United States of America to India,"" a press statement issued by the Home Ministry said.
Under this arrangement, both sides will give each other access to terrorism screening information through designated contact points, subject to domestic laws and regulations, said the statement.
The proposal was initially made by the US in 2012, but had made little progress due to objections raised by security agencies.
India's two major intelligence and counter-espionage agencies Jesus Vallejo Jersey , the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB), had opposed giving the United States unhindered access to the database of terror suspects in India, according to local daily The Hindu.