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[Press Release]
Opening Reception:3:00-6:00pm, June 21, 2014 (Saturday)
Rain & Shining: Yang Shu Solo Exhibition
Yang Shu (b. 1965, Chongqing) was graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting. He is an excellent artist who has spent 20 years on the career, his graffiti-styled expressionism painting has been known and recognized by the art scene. Among his recent works presented under the theme of “Rain & Shining”, he shows us new clues. Although they have a profound connection with his early graffiti-styled works, they were created on the basis of Yang Shu’s travel photos, as a result, they present us more figurative symbols and information. Like traveling notes, they present the fragmented feelings in a more fragmented way. As a result, Yang Shu’s consistent doubt and damage to the themed concept and narrative is revealed. He always presents the possibility of painting in an unexpected way, and conveys his idealist faith.
杨述，微笑服务，布面丙烯、树干、木条，360×250cm，2014
Yang Shu, Smiling Service, Acrylic, Tree Trunk and Battens on Canvas, 360×250cm, 2014
30219 Days: Li Lang Solo Exhibition
Li Lang (b. 1969, Chengdu) is an excellent photographer. He began to be known by the art scene in the late 1990s. His famous photography series “The Yi People” has won many prizes for him, including the Motherjones International Fund for Documentary Photography Awards. His works have been exhibited in many important platforms at home and abroad, many important museums and collectors have collected his works. Under the special theme “30,219 Days”, Li Lang presents 11 seemingly ordinary black and white photographs. We can tell an old man’s body parts, an old bracelet, a handwriting note, or an old photo of a young man…each of the photographs has been shrouded in a layer of gauze—the handwritten 241,752 numbers represent 30,219 days—From December 3rd,1927 to August 27, 2010, it’s the whole life of Li Lang’s father. Facing his dying father, Li Lang gave up all his thoughts about image logics, but chose the most plain way to record these images. After that, it costed him three years to complete these extremely personal works. He said:”I swap my time for the presentation of my father’s life experience, to satisfy my illusory surmise, so that I could make my father’s whole life completed by handwriting.”
父亲 1927.12.03-2010.08.27》之身体A，艺术微喷、铅笔书写，画心：107.8×106.6cm，外尺寸：111.5×110.2cm，2010-2013
“Father 1927.12.03 – 2010.08.27”, Body A, Archival Pigment Print with Pencil Writing, Internal Dimension: 107.8×106.6cm, External Dimension: 111.5×110.2cm, 2010-2013
Yu Ji Drawing Plan
Yu Ji (b. 1965, Chengdu) was graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, his works mainly focus on historical changes and social psychological behavior. He keeps on trying cross-media experiments. In recent years, he empowers the daily routines to bran-new historical metaphors and cultural contents with the interpretation of “shadow”. In his solo event “Yu Ji Drawing Plan”, he presents a series of paper works. These works were not created and considered as the traditional paintings, but as the traces of actions. They are more like the process of searching the metaphor of the images: once the high mountains and historical figures appear, while the former generated as images, the latter is no more than a symbol. Different but related, they enter Yu Ji’s sorrow over the history and the current social situation.
余极，Mt.1，纸本丙烯，50×40cm，2014
Yu Ji, Mt.1, Acrylic on Paper, 50×40cm, 2014
