MIXED MAZE
Artists:
XU CHANGCHANG
The artist Xu Changchang deconstructs the accepted meanings of familiar images by appropriating their form, then either scrunching them (an audacious act that is defiant to its core) or shooting them with a rifle. These second hand images then seek to distort the reality of the original structure and meaning of the pieces.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Fabricating Image from History - Chinablue Gallery, Beijing
Exhibition of China's Contemporary Art Archives - Wall Art Museum, Beijing
2007
Exhibition of Today’s Archives - Today Art Muesuem, Beijing
Hyperrealistic - DR. Gallery, Beijing
The First Exhibition of Archives - Shangshang Art Gallery, Beijing
Images of Fractal: Contemporary Art Exhibition - Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing
LIU BOLIN
Liu Bolin At first glance, Liu Bolin's "camouflage art" is exactly that, the artist painted to blend, with exquisite detail, into his surroundings. However, there is a deeper complexity to his work, as Bolin seeks to question the nature of mankind, and specifically how we seek to camouflage our emotional selves. Do we create our selves as animals, or humans? Most animals live in harmony with their environment, creating habitats and protecting themselves through concealment and adaptation. Humans conversely seek to manipulate and destroy natural environments to best suit our needs, or the remove ourselves as far as possible from our "base" form. Through presenting humans camouflaged in artificial surroundings, Bolin questions whether we ourselves are natural, or artificial? We seek to elevate ourselves outside of the natural world, but this in turn alienates us and upsets the balance from which we came.
1973 Born in Shandong
1995 Graduated from the Art Department of Shandong Arts Institute with a bachelor degree
2001 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master degree
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Distortion - Da Shanzi Art Zone, Beijing
Liu Bolin - Paris Bertin-Toublanc Gallery, Miami
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Olympic Sculptures Exhibition - China Millennium Monument, Beijing
2007
Made in China: Chinese Contemporary Art, Korea
JIA YOUGUANG
Entitled "Skin of the City", the photographs by Jia Youguang focus on ways to consider the modernist elements and impact on daily life in China through the homogeneity of modernization. There is a surreal aspect to the construction of buildings so alike that one wonders on the impact it has on the minds and imaginations of those contained within.
1967 Born in Inner Mongolia.
Lives and works in Beijing.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 ‘
Fabrication Image from History - ChinaBlue Gallery, Beijing
Hetero-Imagery - 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
2007
The 38th Recontres de la Photographie - Arles, France
Digital Soul - Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
LIU JIN
Through his latest series, entitled "Paradise Lost", Liu Jin seeks to intentionally expose the growing hurt and social irony prevalent in China. The concept behind the imagery is courageous and challenging; to see so many Chinese women willing to perform the story of Paradise Lost and the consequential nudity reveals that the many of the taboos and traditional restrictions facing them are relaxing as China becomes more receptive to the West and its ideals.
1971 Born in Jiangsu Province.
1995 Graduated from the Department of Arts and Crafts of Jiangsu Xuzhou Engineering Institute.
Solo Exhibitions
2006
The Story of Youth: Liu Jin solo Exhibition - F2 Gallery, Beijing
Ascending Angel: Liu Jin solo Exhibition - George Michell Gallery, Shanghai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Fabrication Image from History - ChinaBlue Gallery, Beijing
Hetero-Imagery - 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
Image Dynamics - 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
YANG YONGLIANG
Yang Yongliang's "Phantom Landscapes" are a masterpiece of artificial realization. He combines elements of traditional Chinese painting (in which he was schooled, in particular calligraphy) with modern Shanghai landscapes, with incredible details revealing aspects of current urban life. Look closely within the whorls of clouds and dense forestry, and one can spy scenes of construction sites, cranes and traffic lights, a plethora of familiar city landmarks. He perfectly handles contradictions between ephemeral and solid form, so as to make the entire image poetically harmonious.
1980 Born in Jia Ding, Shanghai,
1995 Shanghai Fine Art Institute
1999 China Fine Art Academy Institute
2006 Became Tutor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art
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Xu Changchang
Platform 19
Photograph
82cm x 62cm
2006
Liu Bolin
Telephone Booth
Photograph
Jia Youguang
Skin of the City 2
Photograph
2005
Liu Jin
Paradise Lost, No.4
Photograph
160cm x 208cm
2007
Yang Yongliang
Skyscraper
Ink jet print on epson fine art paper
Edition 7
100cm x 150cm
2008 |
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