Now Shanghai
2009-10-19 17:32

Date: 18 Oct.-8 Nov. 2009
Venue: Shanghart Gallery H-Space, Bldg.18, 50 Moganshan Rd.
Time: 1 PM ~ 6 PM

ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present Now Shanghai: a solo exhibition of Pu Jie.

In Pu Jie’s art practice, visual language replaces discursive formulation. His works are present with strong colours, striking graphic and elementary symbols, thus people may easily categorize his art into American Pop. Distinguishingly, they are conceptual art works with two superposed focuses and overlapped images. The technique of ‘dual visual angle’ adopted by the artist is a partial overlapping of the past and the present which expresses the changes in China in past 40 years — the Cultural Revolution in the first 20 years and Reform-and-opening up in the next 20 years. Such overlapping is filled with cultural mutation and confrontation and clears up visual effect, and ponders the flow of changes of the Chinese society in the past decades. The exhibited ‘Lemon Yellow’ series of works are like dynamic images, which are made up of movements that are felt through intuition: motive dimensions, cinematic leaps, diversion and alteration between interior and exterior. Those overlapped or static figures are like movies telling us the flow of changes occurred in the Chinese society during recent decades. Hence, the ‘dual visual angel’ is not simply an art symbol, but also a reflection of life experience. Moreover, the collision of two periods suggests that our surrounding is changing, and a real journey is thus recorded on Pu Jie’s paintings.

Pu Jie (1959, Shanghai) graduated from Shanghai Normal University, Fine Art Department in 1986, and now resides and works in Shanghai. His recent exhibitions include ‘Memory and Witness-Pu Jie’s Solo Art Exhibition’ in Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2009, Japan), ‘Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection’ in Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (2009, U.S.A), Art China in Hamburg (2008, Germany), ‘Red Hot – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection’ in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2007, U.S.A), ‘We are the new comers, We are the future’ in ShanghART H-Space (2006, Shanghai), ‘A Retrospective with Art Works from Pu Jie’ in ShanghART Gallery (2004, Shanghai), etc.

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