ShanghART Gallery Syndication

Buddha Jumps over the Wall-ZHANG Ding Solo Exhibition

Buddha Jumps over the Wall-ZHANG Ding Solo Exhibition

Duration: Jun 02- Jul 01, 2012.

Opening: 4PM-7PM, Jun 02, 2012.

Venue: Top Contemporary Art Centre, Room 101, Bldg. 5, 18 Wuwei Rd., Shanghai

Artists: ZHANG Ding

On June 2^nd 2012, ZHANG Ding’s Solo Exhibition Buddha Jumps over the Wall will be on view in Top Contemporary Art Centre (Building 5, 18 Wuwei Road, next to ShanghART Taopu Warehouse). The exhibition lasts until July 1^st during which viewers will once again be able to experience a unique atmosphere a la ZHANG Ding.

The abundant content of ingredients and the complex production processes in the cuisine Buddha Jumps over the Wall become the starting point of this time’s ZHANG Ding Solo Exhibition. From 2007 until today, the artist has been continuously pursuing the self-consistent evolution of his aesthetic system. Both biological and societal characters of eating as a daily behaviour are constantly interspersed throughout this exhibition. From getting food to a feast on carnival, from a disorderly party to energy dissipation, Buddha Jumps over the Wall involves a simple system with an abundantly dramatic character. The exhibition continues the tradition of controlling force on the site since ZHANG Ding solo exhibition Opening in 2011. At the same time, neither the implementation of the performers nor the participation of the viewers can default the relations and effects on the site. Buddha Jumps over the Wall will be a genuine art feast which shouldn’t be missed this June in Shanghai.

ZHANG Ding was born in 1980 in Gansu Province. Today he lives and works in Shanghai. ZHANG Ding’s important solo exhibitions include: Opening, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2011); Law, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2009); Zhang Ding, Wind, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (2008) and Tools, ShanghART, Shanghai (2007). Recent exhibitions include: Huge Character, Cooperation Project by SUN Xun, TANG Maohong, ZHANG Ding, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2011); Moving Image In China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2011); Shanghai Kino, KUNSTHALLE BERN, Switzerland (2009) as well as China Power Station (Italy in 2010, Norway and Luxembourg in 2007) etc.

Translated by Andrea Keller

Proofread by Sachiel Yuu

2012-05-10 14:29

Close to the Sea·The Revival of the Snake-Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition Press Release

YANG Fudong Solo Exhibition - Close to the Sea·The Revival of the Snake

Artist: Yang FudongVIP Reception: 12th May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Duration: 12th May - 15th June 2012, 11:00-18:00 (Closed Mon.)

Address: ShanghART Beijing & ARTMIA, 261 Cao Chang Di, Old Airport Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Tel: ShanghART Beijing 86 10- 6432 3202/ARTMIA Gallery 86 10-8457 4550

Website: www.shanghartgallery.com & www.artmia.net

ShanghART is pleased to announce Close to the Sea · The Revival of the Snake - YANG Fudong Solo Exhibition will be on view from 12^th May to 15^th June 2012 in ShanghART Beijing and ARTMIA Gallery. This show will be Yang Fudong’s first Beijing solo show and the premiere of the works in China.

Close to the Sea (2004)

In this ten-channel video installation, a concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love story of a young couple is unfolded on the same location. The videos set on the centre display two scenarios taking place simultaneously: one shows a young couple riding a horse along the sea and the other a pair of lovers struggling for survival from a ship accident. The other eight screens deliver at the same time the performance of diverse instruments, a trumpet and a cello played on the rocks, for example. The background music, which is hallucinatory, dreamlike and even uncoordinated, reflects the conflicts between ideals and reality. The young lovers, despite the threat of death, continue with their discussion of ideal, faith and anticipation.

The Revival of the Snake (2005)

This work tells the end of the story of a soldier going into exile. On a sunny winter's day, the icy ground is stared with snow and life seems as peaceful as the weather. A soldier, escaping from a battlefield, comes to this deserted place which is plagued with the smell of death. He is wandering, attempting to leave this uninhabited world. The only option left to him, however, is walking, ceaselessly and endlessly. What is waiting for him? A hibernating snake is startled awake from its nice dreams and then sees a human, eyes blindfolded and hands bound on the back, kneeling on the freezing ice-covered lake. Who is sentenced to death by the sound of gunshots reverberating around the mountains?

YANG Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing and trained as a painter at China Academy of Art between 1991 and 1995, and then later in the Department of Photography there, as well as the Film Academy Beijing in 1996. Starting in the late 1990s, he embarked on a career in the mediums of film and video and is among the most successful and influential Chinese artists today.

YANG Fudong's recent important solo exhibitions include: 2011 The Distance of Reality, Yang Fudong's Solo Exhibition, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba; Yang Fudong, Utopia and Reality, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Tapiola, Finland; One half of August, Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition, Parasol, Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, U.K.; Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia; 2010 ...In the Bamboo Forest..., Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; Yang Fudong, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest and Other Stories, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition, Kino Kino, Sandnes, Norway; 2009 Yang Fudong: the General's Smile, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Dawn Mist, Separation Faith, Yang Fudong's Solo Exhibition, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, Asia Society and Museum, New York, U.S.A.; Yang Fudong, East of Que Village, MuHKA Media, Antwerpen, Belgium.

At the same time, YANG Fudong's recent work The Fifth Night will be exhibited in Vancouver Art Gallery from 12 May to 3 September 2012. Until 6 May, his works are shown in the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in the group exhibition La La La Human Steps. And the new work Yejiang/The Nightman Cometh will be exhibited during the THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES – REBIRTH AND APOCALYPSE IN CONTEMPORARY ART - The First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art from 17 May to 31 July 2012.

2012-04-18 19:02

Landscape 9210-SHEN Fan Solo Exhibition

Duration: April 16– May 15, 2012. 1PM-6PM.
Opening: 17:30 PM, April 15, 2012.

Venue: ShanghART H-Space, 50 Moganshan Rd., Bldg 18 Shanghai
Artists: SHEN Fan

On April 15^th, Landscape 9210-SHEN Fan Solo Exhibition will be presented in ShanghART H-Space. Three new created big installation works follow his unique personal style, but break out his habitual media. One is installation with oil paintings on canvas, another two are made from mix media.

The work of Shen Fan seems different from the other things in the normal world. But their contents are totally similar. From 2003, Shen Fan enters his Landscape Period, form changes but the spirit remains. It is created to foot on essence, and expression is open and steady, it conveys the past and the future. It concentrates different ages and is independent in the same time. It is not a game but the presentation of thoughts. It is not action but attitude.

Shen Fan was born in 1952 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province. He graduated from Shanghai Light Industry Institute, Fine Arts Department in 1986. He participated in the project Artist in Residence of the Collection Studio in Lincoln, U.K. He currently resides and works in Shanghai. Selected exhibitions include The End of the Brush and Ink Era: Chinese Landscape, True Color Museum, Suzhou (2011); Shanghai, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.(2010); I have Been Here, Usher gallery; The Collection of Lincoln, Lincoln, U.K. (2008); 6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2006).

2012-04-10 14:14

The Other Side of Time - WU Yiming Solo Exhibition

Duration: April 16– May 15, 2012. 10:00AM-6:00PM.
Opening: 17:00 PM , April 15, 2012.

Venue: ShanghART Main Space, 50 Moganshan Rd., Bldg 16 Shanghai
Artist: Wu YimingThe Other Side of Time - WU Yiming Solo Exhibition

The exhibition The Other Side of Time - WU Yiming Solo Exhibition with ten more Wu Yiming’s recent works will be showed to public in ShanghART gallery from Apr. 15th to May. 15th, 2012.

WU Yiming is good at figure paintings, whose work combines traditional culture with self experience. Via Chinese painting style, he pays more attention to the general description of images, which is instant and beyond time and space, rather than the detail information of specific event, background and facial expressions. His work reveals us an atypical person with both traditional scholars’ wisdom and modem intellectuals’ feelings.

Wu Yiming was born in Shanghai in 1966. He graduated from East China Normal University, Fine Arts Department. He resides and works in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions include The World of Other's: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemportary Art, Shanghai(2008); Focus: Wu Yiming's Works On Paper and Sculpture, ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, 2006), Time Ex, UMA Gallery (Hong Kong, 2005), China – Contemporary Painting, Fondazioni Casa di Risparmio, Bologna (2005).

2012-03-13 12:00

"Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation—CHEN Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition

Artist: CHEN Xiaoyun Opening: Mar.24 2012, 16:00-19:00 Duration: Mar.25-May.2, 2012, 11:00-18:00 Address: ShanghART Beijing, 261 Cao Chang Di, Old Airport Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China March 24th 2012, ShanghART Beijing is honoured to present "Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation, solo exhibition of artist CHEN Xiaoyun. As the first solo exhibition staged in ShanghART Beijing in 2012, it is going to be the debut of a dozen artworks including photographs and paintings, which around a fictitious theme develop profound configurational interpretation. Uniquely characterised by semantic ambience of notes and essays, the exhibition is deluged with anxiety and darkness, where correlation between paintings and photographs is unified in the filed of lingual fantasy. Since 1999, CHEN Xiaoyu has been concentrating himself mainly in photography while this exhibition, with the set of photos, speaks another attempt by the artist over long-term practice in this very realm. "Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation, furnishing pictorial annotation of Zhuiku Tablet, a book from which both rhetorical and emotional elements are introduced and unfolded as premise of painting or photography creation, renders imaginatively a withering and waning world infused with verbal consciousness, uttering a passive voice to a few elementary illusions. Chen Xiaoyun (1971) was born in Hubei province. Since his participation in the group exhibition 'Art for Sale' held in Shanghai in 1999, he started his contemporary art creation and practice in video art, and has become one of the most important experimental artists in the most recent decade. Chen Xiaoyun has participated in various international art exhibition and festivals, including Shanghai Kino at Kunsthalle Bern (2009, Switzerland), 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008, Australia), Havana Biennial 2008, Drapeaux Gril at CAPA-Musee d'art Contemporain (2007, Bordeaux in France), the Busan Biennale 2006 in Korea, Turin Triennial 2006 in Italy, Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art 2005 in Japan, and the 5th Shanghai Biennial (2004). His recent solo exhibition including: Why Life, ShanghART Beijing(2011); Emerald Tablet held at ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai(2009); Faint at MC, Los Angeles(2008); Love You Big Boss at the Project Gallery, New York(2008). 2012-03-20 00:41

SUN Xun's new work Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined yet in the Revolution has been nominated in 62nd Berlin International Film

ShanghART Gallery has a great honour to announce that artist SUN Xun with his latest wood printing animation film Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined yet in the Revolution has been nominated by Berlinale Shorts 2012 jury in 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Chinese animation films Three Monks, Yu Bang Xiang Zheng (Snipe and Clam), Feelings of Mountains and waters as well as Mantis Catch Cicadas were once nominated in the festival before. But thereafter no other works were ever chosen in the past 14 years. Breaking years of silence, it's really exciting for Chinese animation entering the Berlin International Film Festival again. Meanwhile, merely 2 years after SUN Xun's work 21G entered Venice Film Festival in 2010, being the first Chinese animation film nominated by this festival, the artist brings animation work once again into top three A-class international film festivals. Sun Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin in Liaoning province, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio. During 2010 he has received several notable awards including the “Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA Best Young Artist)” and “Taiwan Contemporary Art Link Young Art Award”. His film “21 KE (21 GRAMS)” (2010) has had its world premiere at the new “Orizzonti” section at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. This was the first Chinese animation film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. 2012-02-08 22:12

Late Spring and Early Summer

ShanghART Beijing is so pleased to present the solo exhibition "Late Spring and Early Summer" on December 16, 2011. It shows more than 30 new oil paintings created by Zhou Zixi in last two years.

The opening date of "Late Spring and Early Summer" was original planned in June, but now it is postponed to December for some reasons. Thus, the seasonal exhibition title became a chilly memory in distant, which implies some inappropriate complex and obscure sadness.

As an artist who always pays attention to reality and history of China, The new works of Zhou Zixi assume a totally new aspect. "Late Spring and Early Summer" forms like a set of traces, memories, introspections, observations and complex emotional collage of fragments. It interweaves personal history, contemporary history and reality itself. The seemingly fragmentized frames supplement, correspond, multiply, and impact with each other frames. They appear to be broken pages of the story, which implies subtle clues and shows inherent richness and imagination.

It seems meaningful for such amount of landscape paintings. Those deserted views looks like forgotten corners in city outskirts strewn with abandoned buildings. But paintings with figures and scenery reveal a surreal and incredible narration. Time passes through the old broken doors, corridors, gas meters and others, but it still remains a breath of reality. Via the realism paintings, those personal stamped paintings surpass the simple nostalgia and narrow personal lament. The portrait of current has taken a zooming angle of lens to highlight a strong sense of powerlessness. The image of the artist often appears in paintings, which seems a role as a witness and observer, it suggests the time passing and the transformation of affairs and feelings filling time gaps.

As a result, individual experience, past history and on-going history meet and pile one above the other. Some elements repeat in pictures again and again, take concerted action to form intertextuality. The whole exhibition presents a deliberately static, which cause the air filled with a kind of feeling in subtle landscape and still life. Meanwhile, it implies the origin of feeling in those unexpected and bizarre scenes.

Zhou Zixi was born in Jiangxi province in 1970. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. One by one, ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai, 2010); China 1946-1949 - Zhou Zixi Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space (Shanghai, 2008); Interiors – Zhou Zixi, Büro Friedrich (Berlin, 2006); Under the Blue Sky, Grace Li Gallery (Zürich, 2006) and Under the Skin, Universal Studios (Beijing, 2006).

2011-12-01 17:29

cctv - Solo Exhibition of ZHANG Qing (2011 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program)

cctv - Solo Exhibition of ZHANG Qing (2011 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program) Subsequent to the solo exhibition Mao Yan in Dufftown successfully co-staged by ShanghART Gallery and Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program in November 2010, this project continued to issue invitation to young new media artist ZHANG Qing in 2011 for his participation in Scotland. After preparation and creation for nearly one year, Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program 2011 is now delighted to present cctv - Solo Exhibition of ZHANG Qing in ShanghART Gallery H-Space on December 18th, 2011. Recently ZHANG Qing pays a close attention to the study on closed-circuit television. Borrowing language mode from that system, the artist performs his experiments and opens up the discussion over the judgment of value and significance when we are engulfed by the mixture made from truth and illusion after stepping into another linguistic environment and social system from our own. Here, the monitors from cctv are unfolded to their spectators viewing from top to bottom. These pictures, either real or imaginary, intended or indeliberate, all provoke thoughts to blossom. The artworks to be exhibited include video installation, conceptual installation as well as the single-screen video Learn from Tom Smith completed during Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program. After field trip into working environment in the Scotch whisky factory, ZHANG Qing renders with journalistic irony a worker against the background of western capitalistic society and expects his viewers to experience the conflicts between various cultures in the language familiar to them. ZHANG Qing (1977) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province and is among one of the most important experimental artists for the last decade in Shanghai. After graduation from Changzhou Institute of Technology, the artist has displayed his works in Family? (Shanghai, 1999), Second Hand Reality (Beijing, 2003), Thirty-Eight Solo Exhibitions (Shanghai, 2006) and Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai, 2008) and so on. His first solo exhibition Frame was held in 2007 in Bizart Center, Shanghai. Translated by Sachiel Yuu 2011-12-15 16:55

"Huge Character" 2nd Opening

Artists: Tang Maohong, Zhang Ding, Sun Xun

Opening: 4PM, Oct. 29th, 2011 (Sat.)

Duration: Oct. 30th – Nov. 10th, 2011

Venue: ShangART Gallery Beijing Space, CaoChangDi 261

Time: 11AM – 6PM (Monday Closed)

ShanghART Beijing is so pleased to present the second stage of the project Huge Character from October 30th to November 10th, 2011.

This project is cooperated by artists Tang Maohong, Zhang Ding and Sun Xun, which including two stages. The first stage’s result will directly affect the second stage. The creation process is full of uncertainty.

The first stage started from September 3^rd,2011. Six 7m black Chinese characters - “你准备好了吗” (literally means "Are you ready") were put on four walls of the exhibition hall. It is a question from three artists as well as the dialogue with audience.

After the first stage, project enters its second stage. Artists create on site in exhibition, and the creation process is open to public. Base on the huge characters, three artists return to their own creation.

During the second stage, Tang Maohong’s painting works - "Thinking sadness in front of you", Zhang Ding’s installation work - "Compartment", and Sun Xun’s mural with sculpture and painting on paper – "March 18th Park " will be public.

The three art works are independent but with internal relations. Artists’ communication and their balance searching will be presented in exhibition.

Tang Maohong was born in 1975. Recent exhibitions include Facing Reality, Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China (Beijing 2008): Belief (Singapore, 2006), Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, (Germany 2007); Have You Eaten Yet?, 2007 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, (Taiwan 2007); Singapore Biennale 2006: Belief, (Singapore 2006).

Zhang Ding was born in 1980 in Gansu. He resides and works in Shanghai. He graduated from North West Minority University, Oil Painting Department in 2003. He studied at China Academy of Fine Arts, New Media Art from 2003 to 2004. Recent exhibitions include Opening, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2011); Law, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing (2009); Big City and A Lot of Ash – A Lot of Dust, BizArt Center (Shanghai, 2005) and First International Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art: MC1 (Montpellier, 2005).

Sun Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin in Liaoning province, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio. Recent solo exhibitions include: Beyond-ism— Sun Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing (2011); Clown’s Revolution, Holland Animation Festival, Center Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2010); 21KE, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); The Soul of Time, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland (2010); Animals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A (2009); People’s Republic of Zoo, University of Essex Gallery, U.K.(2009); His Story, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2009); The New China, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A(2008); etc. Recent group exhibitions include: By Day By Night or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); China Power Station – Part 3, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy (2010); Aichi Tiennale 2010, Aichi, Japan (2010); 2009 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; etc.

2011-10-21 12:09

WATERWORKS

Duration: Sep. 7 - Oct. 30, 2011. 1PM-6PM. Opening: Sep. 6, 2011. 5PM-7.30PM. Venue: ShanghART H-Space, 50 Moganshan Rd., Bldg 18 Shanghai Artists: GENG Jianyi, WU Shanzhuan, YANG Fudong Curators: Philip Tinari WATERWORKS brings together major new works by GENG JIANYI, WU SHANZHUAN, and YANG FUDONG. Drawing titular inspiration from "Tap Water Factory," an unrealized 1987 installation by Geng Jianyi which questioned premises of seeing and being seen through a maze-like configuration of walls and windows, the exhibition's three distinct positions share a common joint concern with elements that might be described as both infrastructural and natural. The notion of the waterworks—an early industrial structure which enables urban modernity by providing the most elemental of human necessities—becomes a conceptual starting point for these three artists, all of whom are alumni of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. On the most basic level, each of the three suites of work maintains some connection to that most basic substance, water, and to its manipulation by human structures. Geng Jianyi's installation THE CONTENT IS DISTURBED BY ITS SHADOW examines the relationship between inside and outside, using a pinhole camera to capture and project a still-life arrangement of aluminum-foil-covered furniture onto the inside of a black box. The utter darkness of the inner room, along with its fragmented projection surface and the upside-down rendition of the objects, makes for a visual puzzle as the viewer waits to see an image emerge. The disjointed familiarity of the projection is heightened by another "watery" device: an automatic bubble-blowing machine situated behind the pinhole, distorting, albeit imperceptibly, the projected image. For Geng, the demarcation between inside and outside—and the distortion that happens in going from one to the other—is an apt metaphor for how information and ideas from beyond are transmitted into China. Wu Shanzhuan presents a suite of 420 meticulously rendered drawings. Realized between 1992 and 2011, playing on his mythical character of the BUTTERFROG. A witty conflation of the names for the swimming strokes of butterfly and breast (called "frog swim" in Chinese), the character looks at the philosophical principles of "rotation and recovery" which Wu and his partner Inga Svala Thorsdottir derive from their own decade-long conceptual engagement with the sport of swimming. A "sea's worth" of drawings, the project finds its earliest origins in Wu's ongoing philosophical, literary, and artistic project, "Today No Water." Hung on a slightly curved wall, the Butterfrog drawings are divided into five groups: "diagram," "bracket(s)," "configuration," "vectors," and "passer." Yang Fudong's film THE NIGHTMAN COMETH unfolds inside a movie-lot snowstorm, using the simulacral devices of an earlier era, when soap flakes and fans created the climatic illusions now so often left to digital manipulation. A single-channel, nineteen-minute production, works, like much of Yang's film, on the axis of character and (lack of) narrative, with a woman, a general, and two ghost-like spirits wandering forlornly in the winter night. Its Chinese title plays on the double-meaning of "the general at nighttime" and "nightfall imminent." For the first time, he presents alongside the film a selection of documentary material, including still photos, drawings, and other sources of inspiration, installed in glass cases evoking an old, encyclopedic museum. Together these three works—created independently but mediated through a process of ongoing dialogue among the three artists spanning nearly one year—offer three distinct notions of what the individual creative impulse might look like today, always in the context and against the background of the wider system and order. ------ The exhibition is organized by Philip Tinari, critic, curator, and editor-in-chief of the Beijing-based art magazine LEAP. 2011-09-05 15:50