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OCTOBER 2007 QIU JIE ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
In October 2007 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Qiu Jie to London to
take part in an artist residency, part of our wider programme of exchange
activities. Qiu Jie stayed in London for one month and produced a new
series of work based on his encounters and impressions of London, which
will be shown at The Red Mansion Foundation in Spring 2008.
Having trained in both Chinese high-realism and European multi-media schools,
Qiu Jie's drawings are informed from a wide range of aesthetic influence.
Executed in massive scale, and taking months to complete, Qiu's pencil
drawings are achievements of awesome endeavour. His painstaking process
is canonised in the timeless quality of his images, which merge the styles
and iconography of ancient Chinese art with traditional and contemporary
western imagery and references.
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Bateau
2
Lead pencil on paper
1993
300cm x 245cm
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NOVEMBER
2006 - CANG XIN ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
In November 2006 Cang Xin stayed in London for one month as an artist
in residence with The Red Mansion Foundation, during which time he produced
a new series of work 'Identity Exchange: London Series', a continuation
of the ongoing 'Identity Exchange' series.
Cang Xin is one of the first performance artists to come out of China
after 1989, from the East Village in Beijing along with Zhang Huan and
Ma Liuming. In his ongoing 'Identity Exchange' series, he asks workers
from different professions if he may wear their clothes while they stand
next to him in their underwear. The works at first glance seem frivolous
"...but it is through clothes, that Cang Xin seems to have entered
into the bodies of other through a symbolic act, a modern approach to
the traditional concept of souls travelling between bodies", reflects
Zhu Qi from the book Cang Xin.
IDENTITY EXCHANGE PROJECT GALLERY
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JULY
2006 - WENG FEN (WENG PEIJUN)
In July 2006 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Weng Fen to London to
create a site specific installation in our space. The work that he created,
The Viewing Stand - Sandy Beach was exhibited later with his series of
photographs Staring at the Sea. The installation was a comment on boundaries
and relationships between those on either side of them. The tension that
is shown between the male 'viewers' on the outside of the fence and the
females being 'viewed' on the inside can relate to a number of situations
and relationships: the rural urban divide; the West's views of the East
and vice-versa; personal relationships; and the hopeful idealistic view
of immigrants for city life in China and elsewhere that Weng Fen expores
in his other works.
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2003
- ZHAO BANDI
Zhao Bandi and his panda were invited to London for a one month residency
in 2003 to produce a series of works inspired by their experiences in
Britain. Bandi created a video and a series of photographs with captions.
The Manchester Art Gallery, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Aspex Gallery
in Portsmouth as well as the London Underground were showing his work
simultaneously during the summer of 2004 in a series of off-site shows
(billboards and banners) and gallery-based exhibitions.
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