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Exhibition Dates | October 29 – December 10, 2016
Opening | Saturday, October 29, 2016, 4-7 pm
Venue | Platform China Contemporary Art Institute（D07 Main 2nd Street，798 ArtDistrict，Beijing,China

Platform China is pleased to announce the new exhibition of Yang Maoyuan “Eidos”. The opening reception is on Saturday, October 29, 2016; on view through December 20, 2016. The curator Bao Dong titled exhibition “Eidos”, referring to his work, which implies “He does not divide the world into form and content, but instead alwaysgrasps existence as a whole.”

In Bao Dong’s opinion, the art of Yang Maoyuan has always pursued some form of the nonexchangeable, the unexplainable, the unclassifiable, that which cannot be placed into the existing system of artistic discourse and meaning.Heterogeneity is a form of existence that cannot be encompassed in the system of society or be systematized in anyway. This is precisely what lies at the core of avant-garde art, but for Yang Maoyuan, this is a heterogeneity of an ontological nature, rather than temporal discrepancy or political difference. His work is a process of pursuing orprobing this heterogeneity. He references then removes context, reveals then conceals background, until that presence which cannot be restored emerges to beseen. What emerges from these shapes, masses, colors, materials or objects isalways a primal form.

Unlike the purely conceptual nature of philosophy, YangMaoyuan’s images with archaeological tones tend instead towards a culturalhistory existence. In employing these different images and shapes, he appearsto be summoning some universal form, an existence that is self-sufficient likemathematics, independent of knowledge or experience—belonging to man, but transcending theindividual, belonging to culture but approaching substantive existence.