Hu Xinming's pig zodiac sculpture, A Galleria Pangea featured artist, has recently been selected to feature on the official stamp of 2007's Chinese New Year, the "Year of the Pig."

Hu Xinming, who has been working in sculpting for over 30 years, was chosen for his design of the Zodiac Pig statue with traditional folk art style designs. His design will be featured in stamps distributed throughout China in honor of the Chinese New Year, which is one of the largest festivals in the country. This is the third time for his zodiac animal designs to be featured on stamps. His previous goat and monkey design stamps were very well received by the public.

Here you can find his work for sale at Galleria Pangea.

This video taken by our Beijing office staff features the making of Black Pottery. The artist carves the patterns and designs after the item is fired.

You can find all the black pottery items here

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Galleria Pangea Shadow play artist Mr. Wei is going to play a shadow play show in Beijing. The once very popular art form has been forgotten by the villagers.

We met Mr. Wei on our trip to Hua County, Shanxi Province. After 8 hours of bus ride from Xi'an, we arrived in this small village, where one of the last Shadow play troupes still performs. From conversations with Mr. Wei, we can feel his passion and sorrow for shadow play.

Things seems to be getting better. More and more young Chinese started paying attention to traditional folk arts again. We are hoping all of our artisans can keep doing what they do best. We will do our small part to promote their art to the world.

On August 11th 2007, Mr. Wei and his troupes will perform a show in Beijing 798 Art space. You can purchase framed shadow play leather puppets at Galleria Pangea.