L-Art Gallery
Chengdu
Saturday, the 20th of August, L-Art gallery will present the new exhibition “Illusion of Reality”, featuring video works by artists Ma Haijiao, Wu Ding, Xu Bacheng and Ye Funa, as well as relating photography, installation and painting works. “Illusion of Reality” is the generalization of the exhibited works by these four artists, who present their thoughts about individual, society, history and philosophy in different forms, combine realistic slices, individual knowledge structures and perceptions together and form their own languages of image.
Ma Haijiao’s triple-screen video “Lying Dream; Lie about Dream” is his second work of the “multi-screen video installation project of figures and landscapes”. The landscape concealed outside the window resembles several slow full-length shots being played silently. The figures repeat their lives in indoor space. The crack of time between their action becomes a reason to fabricate a “lie”. Only “dream” can make us feel that this life truly exists. Another photo collage and light box work “This is Perhaps What You Know/I don’t know” was created during Ma Haijiao’s art residency in Norway in 2014. The artist associates the strangeness for a city with newspapers that cannot read the city. He interprets this feeling by using image to explain image. Wu Ding’s new work “The propeller return to the origin from the diagonal” and “The synthesis No.1”is another project centered on “interior order”, following his “Realistic Dimension”. It will showcase his latest video, picture and literal works. The “rhythm” here may be understood as a shape, status or structure, which can be material or non-material. The limit of the rhythm overlaps with the ultimate rhythm. They tangle with each other, deconstructing and reconstructing. Their connotations are translated during the process of interweaving with one another. The artist uses the dialectical relationship of things in different structure, layer or status as the main clue. Whathe discusses is the cognitive return established during the interweaving of realistic layers, knowledge and experience. Hand-painted animation “Time-Turning Pages” is the biography of Xu Bacheng’s self-examination on the birth and the finality of “object”. This work was initiated from an accompanying project implemented in 2015, which is selecting an object easy to carry around but not often to be carried around in daily life and recording the experience of using it in 3-month-time. From the turning pages of “Time-Turning Pages”, we see a second-hand world and an epitome of the life of the artist and his “object”. The contingency and the continuity of hand-painted animation tightly grasp the things that have been ignored. Those repeatedly-revised lines appear delicate and fragile on the screen, but meanwhile are filled with imagination and tension. The beginning of the animation is a scene of a hand opening the catalogue, which makes the audience feel that they are observing everything through the artist’s eye. “The Muses” is Ye Funa’s research on the typical images of female in the art history. In the video, photography and installation works, the artist borrows the female images from Mona Lisa, Pre-Raphaelites, Neoclassicism painter Frida Kahlo, Jeff Koons and other contemporary artists. Through the method of role-playing, the artist reproduces the female images in the paintings through editing, interpreting and integrating personal understanding and reading of foreign classic art works.
Xu Bacheng, Time – Turning Pages, The Manuscript, 2015
Wu Ding, The propeller return to the origin from the diagonal, Video + Installation, 2016
马海蛟 这也许是你知道的／我不知道的，440mm x630mm摄影拼贴＋灯箱 2015
吴鼎 合成No.1，3分钟 影像 2016
Ye Funa Cicicolia,Giclee Print, 75.4cmx145cm, 2015
