Young artists express uncertainty
By Wang Jie |
July 27, 2013, Saturday
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THREE young artists explore issues of identity and urbanization at Minsheng Art Museum.
In "Forward! - Contemporary Art and Contemporary City," the museum does not focus on big names but on the younger generation represented by Wu Jian'an, Kang Haitao and Song Kun.
The highlight is Wu's "Seven Layered Shell," a reference to Buddhism's seven layers of consciousness, and the artist creates seven works, each represented by 360 saffron-colored little paper men.
Beijing-native Wu, 33, is a 2005 postgraduate from the National Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The little men are made like shadow puppets and paper-cut figures, using paper dyed with saffron pigment the color of monks robes. The paper is waxed to appear semi-translucent. The figures are sewed onto rice paper, suggesting an ancient Chinese scroll painting.
"What on earth is Buddha? I could merely try to comprehend through these incarnations," Wu says.
Kang's canvas feels poetic and enigmatic. He paints atmospheric sunlight and shadow, dark green trees, pink tiles, flickering glass windows of dark brown and bluish purple.
"I am a lost traveler in my life's journey, but I feel I am called by a spirit of tranquility," Kang says. "Although I am not sure where I am going or where I can go, at least now I am here, moving to the inner side of myself through these paintings."
Born in 1976 in Chongqing Municipality, Kang is a graduate from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
Sun creates surprising collages using bits and pieces of industrial civilization, glass resin, yellow sand, a tree branch and pencil. Her broken, melancholy images vaguely mirror China's rapidly changing social environment.
Sun was born in 1977 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Date: Through August 27, 10am-7pm
Address: Bldg F, 570 Huaihai Rd W.
In "Forward! - Contemporary Art and Contemporary City," the museum does not focus on big names but on the younger generation represented by Wu Jian'an, Kang Haitao and Song Kun.
The highlight is Wu's "Seven Layered Shell," a reference to Buddhism's seven layers of consciousness, and the artist creates seven works, each represented by 360 saffron-colored little paper men.
Beijing-native Wu, 33, is a 2005 postgraduate from the National Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The little men are made like shadow puppets and paper-cut figures, using paper dyed with saffron pigment the color of monks robes. The paper is waxed to appear semi-translucent. The figures are sewed onto rice paper, suggesting an ancient Chinese scroll painting.
"What on earth is Buddha? I could merely try to comprehend through these incarnations," Wu says.
Kang's canvas feels poetic and enigmatic. He paints atmospheric sunlight and shadow, dark green trees, pink tiles, flickering glass windows of dark brown and bluish purple.
"I am a lost traveler in my life's journey, but I feel I am called by a spirit of tranquility," Kang says. "Although I am not sure where I am going or where I can go, at least now I am here, moving to the inner side of myself through these paintings."
Born in 1976 in Chongqing Municipality, Kang is a graduate from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
Sun creates surprising collages using bits and pieces of industrial civilization, glass resin, yellow sand, a tree branch and pencil. Her broken, melancholy images vaguely mirror China's rapidly changing social environment.
Sun was born in 1977 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Date: Through August 27, 10am-7pm
Address: Bldg F, 570 Huaihai Rd W.
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