DOWN TOWN PRODUCTION
The "Down Town Production" artists include:
MC YAN
MC Yan is a truly urban creative; a conceptual artist, graffiti artist
and rapper. Recently MC Yan has produced new work using laser projection
technology, writing words and images on Beijing's skyscrapers, putting
the debate about the plight of the individual in full public view. MC
Yan will be tagging a prominent London landmark to demonstrate the art
of laser tagging for the first time ever in London.
LIU DING
Liu Ding has exhibited extensively internationally. Liu works mainly
with installation, however he also works across a variety of media
including painting, performance and photography. After moving to
Beijing, Liu Ding collaborated with nine artists to launch the Complete
Art Experience Project, an artist-led initiative that produces group and
solo exhibitions with a focus on interdisciplinary artistic experiments.
He has exhibited internationally, including China Power Station at the
Serpentine Gallery in 2006.
HONG HAO
Hong Hao is a major graphic artist and photographer whose intensely
witty and sophisticated work celebrates the tradition of the artist's
book in contemporary Western and ancient Chinese forms. Born in China
in 1965, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Hong graduated from the
printmaking department at Beijing's Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, the
year of the Tiananmen Square protests. He is best know for his
photographic series, My Things, which are composed of thousands of
scanned images of objects from his own life and several will be included
in Down Town Production. He has shown at galleries and museums in China
and all over the world including the USA, Ireland, France, Czech
Republic, Canada, Sweden, Australia and Japan.
MENG LUDING
Meng Luding is one of China's leading abstract painters. His work,
Enlightenment of Adam and Eve in the New Age, went on record as the
pioneering work for the '85 Art Movement. The Football, one of his
expressionist works, is considered a masterpiece of the genre, pushing
the medium of oil painting into a new realm. His recent works show a
strong personal style and unique art concepts and demonstrate a new
visual language and production method.
LIU ZHENCHEN
Liu Zhenchen was born in Shanghai but has lived in France for the last
eight years, so that Shanghai is now only a memory to him, a compressed
experience. His recent photographs and films, which are documentary and
poetic hybrids, show the frantic changes taking place in Shanghai and
their direct impact on its residents. Zhenchen Liu has been awarded
numerous prizes. His latest video was named Best Experimental Film at
France's 9th Aubagne International Film Festival and was screened at the
Centre Pompidou in Paris.
LAO LIU
Most Chinese people know Lao Liu as a rock 'n' roll musician from the
80's. Now, he works as a photographer and lives in Beijing. In one of his
more recent works, Lao Liu managed to elude border checks at the Ya Lu
River, smuggling his camera into North Korea to take a series of
photographs. Entitled Dance over the Border (Wu Guo San Ba Xian) they
record and express the passion and romanticism of the local population.
Liu has shown in the USA and China.
ZHAO SHAORUO
Zhao Shaoruo was born in China but lives and works in Espoo, Finland.
Moving between Beijing, Hong Kong and Helsinki, Zhao has experienced a
sense of displacement and his work explores loneliness and the absurdity
of human incompetence. He reinterprets photographs for instance in Under
the Name of the City, he replaces the faces of the passers-by in city
scenes with his own face and places his own name on all the adverts,
banners and street signs. He shows regularly in Finland and has also
showed in Germany, Japan, Czech Republic, Indonesia and the V&A Museum
in London. He will have four photographs in the exhibition.
WANG HUI
Whilst much of China's most visible contemporary architecture ranges
from glittering towers created by international architects to the kitsch
of Thames Town (a mock English suburb near Shanghai), China, naturally,
has it own architects who are now building for themselves, rather than
for the state. Wang Hui, a founding partner of Urbanus Architecture &
Design, is one such architect. With branches in Beijing and Shenzhen,
Urbanus projects include urban design, architecture, urban landscape
design, interior design, exhibition design and public art installations.
Urbanus is recognized as one of the avant-garde among young Chinese
firms. Their concept of urbane urbanity instead of chaotic urbanism
characterizes each Urbanus project and, as a firm, they aim to restore
humanity back to China's vast and fast-growing metropolises. Hui will
make wallpaper to dress the gallery space and an installation for Down
Town Production.
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Lao Liu
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Photograph
Liu Ding
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Sculpture, ceramics, gold
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