Opening: June 14, 2015 11:00AM
Exhibition: June 14, 2015 – August 16, 2015
Curator: Beate Reifenscheid (Director)
Honored Guest:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hofmann-Göttig (Mayor of Koblenz)
Wen LI (Cultural Attaché on behalf of the Consulate General the People’s Republic of China)
[press release]
Figurative painting has dominated China during the last decades. Its beginning started with the Cynical Realism movement to which Liu Wei (born 1965) belonged. As one of its most important representatives he had already been shown at the Biennale in Venice in 1995. With his paintings, which drew from Chinese ink painting as well as from Expressionistic Colorism, he developed a distinctive style very early on. Today he engages with the possibilities of ink painting and its break from tradition again.
Ji Dachun (born 1968) became popular at the beginning of his career especially because of his surreal collages in which he associatively combines absurdism in a veristic manner. In particular he showed animals in complex compositions or landscapes which crystalized as mini-universes.
For a few years now he has mostly painted in an abstract manner and developed landscapes which more and more subvert the audiences view.
The youngest among them, Mu Boyan (born 1976), had already become popular at the beginning of 2000 through his hyperrealistic sculptures in which he exclusively portraits thick, naked men looking like sedate sumo-wrestlers in equally absurd situations. Here elements like absurdity, surrealism and abstract embrace.
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Ludwig Museum Koblenz
Danziger Freiheit 1, 56068, Koblenz, Germany
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Supported by Aye Gallery
Room 601, Unit 3, Yonghe Garden, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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Ji Dachun, “Ellen’s Book”, 100×80 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2010
季大纯，《Ellen的书》，布面丙烯，100×80 cm，2010
Ji Dachun, “Bird painting without bird”, 140×140 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2008
季大纯，《有只无鸟图》，布面丙烯，140×140 cm，2008
Liu Wei, “revolutionary family”, 100×100 cm, oil on canvas, 1992
刘炜，《革命家庭》，布面油画，100×100 cm，1992
Liu Wei, “ Bird”, 70×135 cm, ink on paper, 2014
刘炜，《鸟》，水墨，70×135 cm，2014
Mu Boyan, “Up and Down”, color on bronze,25x25x5+25x100x5 cm, 2014
牟柏岩，《上下》，铜着色，25x25x5+25x100x5 cm，2014
Mu Boyan, “Tighten”, color on bronze, 30x70x8 cm, 2015
牟柏岩，《紧》，铜着色，30x70x8 cm，2015
