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Winter Discovery 2015

Opening︱3:00-6:00pm, Jan.9th, 2016 (Saturday)
Artists︱Cai Dongdong, Chen Xiaoyi, He Xun, Ji Lei, Li Lang, Qiu Anxiong, Tao Hui, Yuan Keru, Wang Jun, Zhang Xiao
Media︱Painting, Video, Photography, Installation

Following the group exhibition project Summer Discovery in 2014, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space will present the annual group exhibition Winter Discovery by the turn of year 2015 to 2016, including paintings, videos, photographs and installations from ten active contemporary artists: Cai Dongdong, Chen Xiaoyi, He Xun, Ji Lei, Li Lang, Qiu Anxiong, Tao Hui, Yuan Keru, Wang Jun and Zhang Xiao. Without the restriction of theme and content, Winter Discovery presents in parallel recent creations and reflection of artists and brings segmented presentation of today’s Chinese contemporary artistic creation.

蔡东东,《月夜》,图片,手工彩色照片、镜子,33.5×50cm,2015,版本:1/1 Cai Dongdong, “Moonlit night”, Photography, Hand-made color photograph, Mirror, 33.5×50cm, Ed. 1/1

蔡东东,《月夜》,图片,手工彩色照片、镜子,33.5×50cm,2015,版本:1/1
Cai Dongdong, “Moonlit night”, Photography, Hand-made color photograph, Mirror, 33.5×50cm, Ed. 1/1

Cai Dongdong was born in Tianshui of Gansu Province in 1978, and currently lives and works in Beijing. The original images of Cai Dongdong’s photographs installations were sourced from his photos taken in these years. He operated on them, like a surgeon. He applied various methods according to different pictures : engraving, rubbing, curling, or making a photography installation with other objects. He tried all he can to save these pictures by giving them new meanings. This creation blurs the boundary between a photo’s touch experience and cognitive experience. The photo’s dimension was extended. You may mistake the picture for a painting. (compilatory extract from artist statement of Cai Dongdong)

陈萧伊,《冷山》,照相凹版术,57×76cm,2014,版本:1/3 Chen Xiaoyi, “Cold Mountain”, Photogravure, 57×76cm, 2014, Edition 1/3

陈萧伊,《冷山》,照相凹版术,57×76cm,2014,版本:1/3
Chen Xiaoyi, “Cold Mountain”, Photogravure, 57×76cm, 2014, Edition 1/3

Chen Xiaoyi was born in Sichuan Province in 1992 and currently lives and works in Chengdu and London. Her practice is tied to a natural, oriental aesthetic, influenced by Western abstract art and oriental philosophy. Photography is a personal tool for Chen, used to question broad concepts that migrate from the personal to the philosophical realm. Her recent work focuses on the combination of photography and printmaking, a combination of techniques used to explore beneath the surface of things by simplifying and abstracting; an approach aimed at reviving spiritual awareness and intuition before entering the symbolic nature of what we view.`

贺勋,《光线》,布面油画,50×80cm,2014 He Xun, “Lights”, Oil on canvas, 50×80cm, 2014

贺勋,《光线》,布面油画,50×80cm,2014
He Xun, “Lights”, Oil on canvas, 50×80cm, 2014

He Xun was born in Jiangxi Province in 1984 and currently lives and works in Beijing. His painting creation follows his interest in speculative philosophy, ambiguity and poetry. Therefore he projects his thoughts and perspectives on “objects”. More precisely, he looks for information of objects in sorcery and science, for example “source” (original intention of creator), “function”(whether known or unknown), “symbol” (distance with the the thing itself) etc. Interestingly he avoids presenting the essence of objects. He regards the essence as source of actuation of all objects. He is fascinated even by the objects covered by veil and the objects with cold aspect. (compilatory extract from artist statement of He Xun)

吉磊,《时光之钻》,布面丙烯,200×250cm,2012 Ji Lei,“Drill of time”, Acrylic on canvas,200×250cm,2012

吉磊,《时光之钻》,布面丙烯,200×250cm,2012
Ji Lei,“Drill of time”, Acrylic on canvas,200×250cm,2012

Ji Lei was born in Chengdu in 1972 and now lives and works in Chengdu. About the playground themed series of Ji Lei, Wu Wei, the critic says “When brilliance meets nothingness, there’s a dissociated free sense inspired in the artist’s work. The essence of movements, “back and forth constantly repeated”, is just exactly what Hans-Georg Gadamer required for the games. Speaking of games, Gadamer had revealed some phenomena, such as light wavering, the movement of rolling waves, gear or machinery parts, mutual limb movement, the movement of forces, the movement of insects and even words. “It is in this sense, the game is a way of being, the game is a work of art itself existence – which absolutely no grasp of the subject is engaged in the game. ” As for Ji Lei, besides to express the theme of playground, game also reflected the lure of color, or a process and a scene of color changing diversely”. (Wu Wei ).

黎朗,《父亲 1927.12.03-2010.08.27 父亲的手印(右)》,艺术微喷、铅笔书写,哈内姆勒蚀版纸 350g,106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed:1 LI Lang, “Father 1927.12.03-2010.08.27, My Father’s Handprint (Right)” , Archival Pigment Print with Pencil Writing, Hahnemühleg Etching paper 350g, 106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed.1/1

黎朗,《父亲 1927.12.03-2010.08.27 父亲的手印(右)》,艺术微喷、铅笔书写,哈内姆勒蚀版纸 350g,106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed:1
LI Lang, “Father 1927.12.03-2010.08.27, My Father’s Handprint (Right)” , Archival Pigment Print with Pencil Writing, Hahnemühleg Etching paper 350g, 106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed.1/1

Li Lang was born in Chengdu in 1969 and now lives, works in Chengdu. Winter Discovery presents his new photography series “Father 1927.12.03 – 2010.08.27”, which are created after his solo exhibition in 2014 at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space. From recording the extremely personal images of his father, to writing every day of his father’s 30219 life days down, the spiritual practice process has taken Li Lang five years. Through this seemingly personal way, Li Lang is in fact discussing a public problem—time,life and body politics.

邱黯雄,《蛋糕》,6分2秒,视频,2014 Qiu Anxiong, “Cake”, Video, 6min2sec, 2014

邱黯雄,《蛋糕》,6分2秒,视频,2014
Qiu Anxiong, “Cake”, Video, 6min2sec, 2014

Qiu Anxiong was born in Chengdu in 1972, currently lives and works in Shanghai. “Cake” is an experimental short animation film with hand-drawn and clay animation. Cake as a carrier, depicting the head, vines, gauze …… etc. grow out from the cake constantly devour each other, entangled. Wrestlers skilful body fighting, the sound part of the work does not seem to come from the image itself, but more like a another physical interference from more expansive space, resulting in a suspension of some sense of weightlessness. Cake metaphor associated with wealth, interest, desire. the people and things grow out of the cake with endless devouring each other and fighting is the absurd and true metaphor of relations of humanity on the basis of the interests.

陶辉,《德黑兰的黄昏》,截图,单通道超清录像,彩色,4分14秒,2014 TaoHui, “The dusk of Teheran”, Screenshot, Colours and sound single channel video, 4min14sec, 2014

陶辉,《德黑兰的黄昏》,截图,单通道超清录像,彩色,4分14秒,2014
TaoHui, “The dusk of Teheran”, Screenshot, Colours and sound single channel video, 4min14sec, 2014

Tao Hui was born in Chongqing in 1987 and currently lives and works in Beijing. The video artworks of Tao Hui make art start to tell stories again. The narrative structures of films, TV shows and theatres incite him to create new ways of transmission of information and emotion. By the simple visual artistic form and a parallel way, Tao Hui’s works reflect the predicament and absurdity of society. In artwork “The dusk of Teheran”, a full-dressed Iranian girl says actor’s lines from a Hong Kong singer. This artwork reflects the hard experience of all women who live in depressive society. The touching part of Tao Hui’s works is his interpretation of establishment of social structure and individual situation in the society by lyric and emotional way. By creating the interaction between different characters, he also presents particular culture and complexity of second and third-tier cities of China. We are full of hope for his future because of his particular literary imagination, narrative characteristics and visual expressivity.

袁可如,《云龙绮梦》,三屏影像装置/黑白,15分14秒,2014 Yuan Keru, “A Salted Encounter”, Three-screen video installation, Black and white,15min14sec, 2014

袁可如,《云龙绮梦》,三屏影像装置/黑白,15分14秒,2014
Yuan Keru, “A Salted Encounter”, Three-screen video installation, Black and white,15min14sec, 2014

Yuan Keru was born in Hangzhou in 1990 and now lives and works in Shanghai. In her three-screen video installation “A Salted Encounter”, Yuan Keru presents by black and white films her personal feelings to Ancient Tea Horse Road, an area full of histories and pathos, where the hardship and romance exist in the same time. In eyes of Yuan Keru, the colorful border area of Yunnan becomes a monotonou tone with anxious mood and lost illusion (text by Li Feng). In this film, the scene with illusion and strong contrast is applied to demonstrate the spooky stories happening to three young people who are walking in Yunlong County, Yunnan Province. It is about mutated bodies in the course, bewildering love, expected murder and terrified mood.Along the way, the sceneries seem to be spiritual clouds rather than the only sceneries.History becomes part of the travelers rather than the only local history, Passing on in their veins.Never try to control over it as there are too many unexpected and new experience.Just throw those complex and constraining trifles away. Go ahead with all your simplicity and wilderness.Eventually, empty handed, come back with rewarding experience.

王俊 ,《无题No.5》,布面丙烯,120×110cm,2015 Wang Jun, “Untitled No.5”, Acrylic on canvas,120×110cm, 2015

王俊 ,《无题No.5》,布面丙烯,120×110cm,2015
Wang Jun, “Untitled No.5”, Acrylic on canvas,120×110cm, 2015

Wang Jun was born in Chongqing in 1974 and now lives and works in Chongqing. His recent paintings created have a close relationship with the concept of “cover”. “Essence of covering is to make successfully false appearances in order to create illusion. This operation is delusive in itself. But this kind of delusion would be closer to the reality created by paintings. In fact, I often remind myself do not indulge in the creator of paintings. Paint a picture is more like a thief who makes a scene of crime in a room. Before the police arrives, he must mess up the site, erase the traces or make some false appearances then close the door and go away. This is the concept of “cover” that I mean. Face to a painting, the audiences see the trace of painting brush. What the artist needs to do is creating apertures and imagination space for public. Artist tries to establish an equal and discussible view. In fact, it is the real respect for the public” (words of Wang Jun). His artworks often start from a landscape photo taken casually. He paints the landscape by a non abstract way and then cover the image with paints to make the image at the point of transition between abstract and non abstract in order to catch the flash feelings. Therefore he doesn’t regard his paintings as abstract.

张晓,《录像厅》,即显胶片,录像带,MP3播放器,53×43×7cm,8个,2015,版本:1/1 Zhang Xiao, “Video Hall”, Instant film on VHS tape, MP3 player, 53×43×7 cm, set of 8, 2015, Ed:1/1

张晓,《录像厅》,即显胶片,录像带,MP3播放器,53×43×7cm,8个,2015,版本:1/1
Zhang Xiao, “Video Hall”, Instant film on VHS tape, MP3 player, 53×43×7 cm, set of 8, 2015, Ed:1/1

Zhang Xiao was born in Yantai in 1981, currently lives and works in Chengdu. Artwork exhibited is photograph installation “Video Hall”. Video hall was a frequently visited place when I was young. Hosting different people though, it still has the temptation irresistible to a young country boy, where shootout films and x-rated films usually dominated the lines. I extracted some frames and sound particular at that time from video cassettes, re-labelled the cassettes with instant films, equipped each cassette with acoustic source, recorded the sound clips separately and played them at the same time. This photograph installation (unique edition) is part of artist’s series “About My Hometown”.

  • 蔡东东,《月夜》,图片,手工彩色照片、镜子,33.5×50cm,2015,版本:1/1
Cai Dongdong, “Moonlit night”, Photography, Hand-made color photograph, Mirror, 33.5×50cm, Ed. 1/1

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  • 陈萧伊,《冷山》,照相凹版术,57×76cm,2014,版本:1/3
Chen Xiaoyi, “Cold Mountain”, Photogravure, 57×76cm, 2014, Edition 1/3

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  • 贺勋,《光线》,布面油画,50×80cm,2014
He Xun, “Lights”, Oil on canvas, 50×80cm, 2014

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  • 吉磊,《时光之钻》,布面丙烯,200×250cm,2012
Ji Lei,“Drill of time”, Acrylic on canvas,200×250cm,2012

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  • 黎朗,《父亲 1927.12.03-2010.08.27 父亲的手印(右)》,艺术微喷、铅笔书写,哈内姆勒蚀版纸 350g,106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed:1
LI Lang, “Father 1927.12.03-2010.08.27, My Father’s Handprint (Right)” , Archival Pigment Print with Pencil Writing, Hahnemühleg Etching paper 350g, 106.6×108cm, 2015, Ed.1/1

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  • 邱黯雄,《蛋糕》,6分2秒,视频,2014
Qiu Anxiong, “Cake”, Video, 6min2sec, 2014

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  • 陶辉,《德黑兰的黄昏》,截图,单通道超清录像,彩色,4分14秒,2014
TaoHui, “The dusk of Teheran”, Screenshot, Colours and sound single channel video, 4min14sec, 2014

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  • 袁可如,《云龙绮梦》,三屏影像装置/黑白,15分14秒,2014
Yuan Keru, “A Salted Encounter”, Three-screen video installation, Black and white,15min14sec, 2014

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  • 王俊 ,《无题No.5》,布面丙烯,120×110cm,2015
Wang Jun, “Untitled No.5”, Acrylic on canvas,120×110cm, 2015

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  • 张晓,《录像厅》,即显胶片,录像带,MP3播放器,53×43×7cm,8个,2015,版本:1/1
Zhang Xiao, “Video Hall”, Instant film on VHS tape, MP3 player, 53×43×7 cm, set of 8, 2015, Ed:1/1

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