Night Tales - Solo Exhibition of Xiang Liqing
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Night Tales - Solo Exhibition of Xiang Liqing

June 10th, 2011-July 10th, 2011

Bldg. 16, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai

Night Tales - Solo Exhibition of Xiang Liqing is due to be inaugurated in ShanghART Gallery on June 10^th, 2011.

Night is a state, relaxing people and driving them mad as well. Night Tales is a derivative of drifting thinking by the artist: pure implication of the accumulation of knowledge, visualized rendering of fleeting time, incapable and hopeless aggregation, direction that remains tangible yet contradictory, as well as limited warmth full of poetic sonance. They never stop growing. They are a collection of sentiments. And they keep murmuring at the very evening, regardless of day and night.

 

Xiang appears to look at the big world from an unknown corner, quietly. And he keeps art creating in various approaches of photography, painting, installation and sculpture and so forth. Interpreting these works, one can uncover the tension in his art pregnant with meaningfulness, born from conflicting elements attempting to integrate into each other. As he strives to portray the annihilation of human existence under suffocating urban space, for instance, he also presents in some other pieces the humourous and human aspect of relationship between individual and space. He manifests on one hand collective disorientation and on the other individual existence. From Self-dyed back in 2007, handcrafty and poetic quality continue to intensify in his art. Xiang’s main works include Rock Never (photography in 2002), Crawling State (installation in 2003), The Second Generation (photography in 2005) and Self-dyed (installation in 2007) and so on.

 

Xiang Liqing was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province in 1973. In 1995, he graduated from Oil Painting Department in China Academy of Fine Art. His main solo exhibitions include Relations (Paul Frèches Gallery, Paris, 2008), Pure - Xiang Liqing’s Solo Exhibition (ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, 2003) and In the Middle of Change - Xiang Liqing’s Solo Exhibition (ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, 2001). And the group exhibitions he attended include Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Contemporary Art Exhibition in Songjiang (Shanghai Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, 2009), Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009 (436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai, 2009), China Contemporary Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (Netherlands Architecture Institute, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands, 2006), Zooming into Focus - Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2005), Montpellier/Chine:MC1 Biennale international, The First International Biennial of Contemporary, Chinese Art (Montpellier, France, 2005), Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation, Contemporary Art from China (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004), Beyond Boundaries - Opening of Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai Gallery of Art , Shanghai, 2004), Open Sky - Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2003) and The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Urban Creation (Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 2002) and so forth.

 

Translated by Sachiel Yuu

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