Curator: Park Collective (Yuan Fuca, Han Liya)
Artist: Brett Swenson, Li Ran, Li Tingwei, Lin Ke, Ma Jianfeng, Navchaa, Tao Hui
Duration: 8th March 2015 – 12th April 2015
Opening: 4 pm, 8th March 2015
Address: Ying Space, Red No.1-A3 Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Ying Space is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2015 with a group show featuring work by Brett Swenson, Li Ran, Li Tingwei, Lin Ke, Ma Jianfeng, Navchaa and Tao Hui, entitled Perched in the Eye of a Tornado.
In the eye of a tornado, a void is formed by the surrounding chaos. Illuminated by the blue lights, the void represents the state of decay or preservation, the internal or the external. Perched in the eye of a tornado, instead of striving for global modernity, the artist will serve solely to reassemble life while dwelling in absolute deterritorialization of the world intended to render the social anew.
Brett Swenson, Ma Jianfeng, Navchaa and Li Tingwei have demonstrated the extension and alteration of images in the space respectively. The NY-based artist Brett Swenson’s interest is to explore the intersections of human construct with the natural world. Ma Jianfeng discusses the spatiality of painting. Taking the graphic language of images to attention, he applies combined materials with various ways of clipping in order to capture the fluid images in the space. Li Tingwei distills and compresses the commonly shared emotions and experiences to reach a pure essence through simplifying and transforming forms. Her seemingly simple and general geometrical forms and basic and pure color represent a conceptual relationship among life, time and philosophy. Navchaa is fascinated by the curious boundary, the connection and contradiction between vision and body.
Li Ran and Tao Hui both reflect on and react to the increasingly vague individual experience with a fully emotional touch. In recent years, Li Ran has been approaching and pointing to the topic of art per se by making use of imitating performance, post-synchronization, video materials, adaptation and drama imitating. His works demonstrate the contemporary artistic concepts, the motivation and cause of creation as well as thinking perplexity. Tao Hui employs moving image as his language in artistic practice. His works mostly center on group experiences and he has a fascination towards narrative art. As for Lin Ke, he reckons himself as the finder rather than the inventor of a piece of video, as the body is projected onto the video by means of the action itself. Through the games and rules he sets, he believes that it is possible to release software tools and their functions from the normal usage.
Brett Swenson, “Strewn”, Gypsum Cement, custom mounts, found objects, 110.49 x 45.72cm, 201
布雷特·斯文森，《散布》，石膏水泥，定制组装，现成物，110.49 x 45.72cm，2014
Ma Jianfeng, “Stone Park”, Mixed media, Variable size, 2012-2015
麻剑锋，《石头公园》，综合材料，尺寸可变，2012-2015
Li Tingwei, “TydF”, Acrylic paints, plexiglass, plywood, Height 2 m, 2014
李亭葳，《天圆地方》，亚克力颜料，树脂玻璃，胶合板，高2米，2014
