Press Release

AIKE-DELLARCO is pleased to announce the solo project ‘Lift with Care’ by Hu Yun, opening April 13th and on view until April 30th 2013.

In recent years Hu Yun delves into different kinds of subjects, intertwining historical narration with individual experiences, adopting an interdisciplinary approach. In this project, the artist composes a narrative structure that combines the true recounts of the expedition led by a foreign explorer, which took place in Southern China during the ’30s, with the personal recollection of the memories and experiences of the artist’s grandfather.

Hu Yun, born in 1986 in Shanghai, lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from China Academy of Art. Hu had a three months artist-residency in the Natural History Museum London in collaboration with GASWORKS in 2010, and final outcome of residency project was on display in the Natural History Museum through out 2011. His project A Natural History Research, begun in 2011, is a continuing project that uses different objects to fuse aspects of his personal encounter, the forming of the system and the colonial past with myths and historical truths. Hu had his first solo exhibition in Magician Space in Beijing 2010; his works have also been exhibited at the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012) and 4th Guangzhou Triennial (2012). He is co-founder of the independent art e-journal PDF and Youth Sale Store, artists initiated pop up project.