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Turning doodling into an art form
By Xu Wenwen |
May 22, 2013, Wednesday
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WHILE many people are happy aimlessly scribbling away on a sheet of paper, young French artist Christelle Herve has developed doodling into her own artistic language.
Recently, using just a standard ballpoint pen on paper, she created four wall-sized pieces depicting skinned leather.
One of these, "Labour" is on display at "Coming and Going," an international invitation exhibition that opened on Sunday at Inna's Contemporary Art Space in Hangzhou.
The exhibition organizers invited two German artists - renowned photographer Candida H?fer and painter and mixed-media artist Hendrina Krawinkel - plus Herve and five Chinese artists based in Hangzhou.
"The series was inspired by my childhood spent in a farming region in France, where my parents always marked their cattle," said Herve, who is studying for a PhD in multimedia at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
She used up 30 ballpoint pens and two weeks to "scrawl" the piece. Other works in the series include renderings of pig and sheep skins.
The exhibition's biggest name is H?fer, 69, best known for photographs of the interiors of public buildings without people present.
"Coming and Going" features some of her early work - figure paintings and photographs of the interiors of buildings, complete with people.
A series of black-and-white photographs feature the same place - a large hall with a spiral staircase - but with people behaving differently, as H?fer photographed them at different times.
She explained they show "the dynamics in the sequence of images," in which "people are 'moving' but the environment in which they move remains constant."
The artist said many of her photographs don't feature people because she is shy, yet the "constant element" can be seen throughout.
Fellow German artist Krawinkel has brought two small installations, both made from garbage - such as broken toys, used bandages, feathers and waste iron.
One titled "Hiroshima" features small serrated iron pieces that puncture and break animal and baby toys; the other, "Hurt Animal," is an abstract tiger-like animal made up mainly of newspapers and bandages, with a tail of feathers.
The young Chinese artists, with average age of under 30, are showing three paintings and three installations.
Installation "Urban Fragments" by Ying Xinxun, a teacher at China Academy of Art, caught the eye of many. It's an old shoebox, from which a pair of semi-transparent shoes fall out.
"Modern people consume a lot of things, but don't cherish them," explained Ying.
Date: Through June 18, 9am-5pm
Address: 465 Hefang St
Tel: (0571) 8702-3522
Recently, using just a standard ballpoint pen on paper, she created four wall-sized pieces depicting skinned leather.
One of these, "Labour" is on display at "Coming and Going," an international invitation exhibition that opened on Sunday at Inna's Contemporary Art Space in Hangzhou.
The exhibition organizers invited two German artists - renowned photographer Candida H?fer and painter and mixed-media artist Hendrina Krawinkel - plus Herve and five Chinese artists based in Hangzhou.
"The series was inspired by my childhood spent in a farming region in France, where my parents always marked their cattle," said Herve, who is studying for a PhD in multimedia at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
She used up 30 ballpoint pens and two weeks to "scrawl" the piece. Other works in the series include renderings of pig and sheep skins.
The exhibition's biggest name is H?fer, 69, best known for photographs of the interiors of public buildings without people present.
"Coming and Going" features some of her early work - figure paintings and photographs of the interiors of buildings, complete with people.
A series of black-and-white photographs feature the same place - a large hall with a spiral staircase - but with people behaving differently, as H?fer photographed them at different times.
She explained they show "the dynamics in the sequence of images," in which "people are 'moving' but the environment in which they move remains constant."
The artist said many of her photographs don't feature people because she is shy, yet the "constant element" can be seen throughout.
Fellow German artist Krawinkel has brought two small installations, both made from garbage - such as broken toys, used bandages, feathers and waste iron.
One titled "Hiroshima" features small serrated iron pieces that puncture and break animal and baby toys; the other, "Hurt Animal," is an abstract tiger-like animal made up mainly of newspapers and bandages, with a tail of feathers.
The young Chinese artists, with average age of under 30, are showing three paintings and three installations.
Installation "Urban Fragments" by Ying Xinxun, a teacher at China Academy of Art, caught the eye of many. It's an old shoebox, from which a pair of semi-transparent shoes fall out.
"Modern people consume a lot of things, but don't cherish them," explained Ying.
Date: Through June 18, 9am-5pm
Address: 465 Hefang St
Tel: (0571) 8702-3522
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