Salon showcases potential of crossover art
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ARTIST Peter Riezebos stared at a blank white T-shirt and shortly afterward started painting it with vivid colors and abstract shapes. In about 30 minutes, it was transformed from a simple item into a unique artwork. His impressive creation inspired many of his guests to pick up their own brushes and join Riezebos’ exciting performance. They create their own artworks, including a traditional Chinese-style painting featuring a lotus pattern by Chinese artist Zhu Yinuo.
This creative outpouring was part of a crossover performance held for an exhibition entitled “The Dialogue of Art •Image.”
According to organizers, this small-scale salon-style event conveys an immense idea: Art should exist in museums as well as our daily lives.
The exhibition, co-organized by Shanghai Daily’s Art Vision project and new media platform Top Tier, is being held in Cachet hotel and represents its own departure from the rarefied world of contemporary art. Instead of showcasing art pieces in a museum, the exhibition brings masterpieces into public areas of hotels and thus offers guests an opportunity to encounter art where they may not be expecting it.
More than 100 distinguished guests showed up for the art salon, including consul generals in Shanghai, consular representatives, and representatives from chambers of commerce and multinational corporations.
The exhibition features works by artists from the renowned ShanghART Gallery, including Ding Yi, Xue Song, Wei Guangqing, Yu Youhan, Tang Maohong, Shi Qing and Li Pinghu. Art works displayed include video art, oil paintings, print screens, and also design pieces. The show also highlights examples of crossover art, as displayed at the event mentioned above.
The artists taking part in the exhibition are also typical crossover artists. Instead of guarding the established borders of the art world, they’ve set their sights into other horizons and express their thoughts through diversifying means.
Yu is widely considered a leading figure in both Chinese Political Pop and the country’s avant-grade art movement of the 1990s. His unique style fuses Chinese iconography with Western forms of artistic expression. He employs a stylish methodology that blends these seemingly contradictory visual traditions, which is perfectly expressed in his renowned “Mao” portraits series. His latest work consists of landscape paintings that resemble pastorals of a forgotten utopia. Yu’s extensive oeuvre combines multiple perspectives and investigates the structure of cultural identity in China through an on-gong exploration of various pictorial techniques.
Tang Maohong was once a stage performer. He simultaneously promotes and undermines art history and popular culture. He has integrated a variety of visual elements and subject matters to produce works that inhabit the ever-blurred border between high art and popular illustration. His work is absurd, magical, humorous and confrontational, hinting that the juxtapositions of figurative objects might be more than just illusions.
Shi Qing’s work is also difficult to categorize and interpret. Her work covers themes of perceptions and behavior, embodying a complex psychological process. Li Pinghu engages himself in a variety of artistic areas, including videos, painting and photography.
As a Shanghai-based artist from the Netherlands, Peter Riezebos’s creative work encompasses drawings and paintings, primarily in the abstract, figurative and neo-expressionism traditions. His works also include art installations, and other products such as prints, shoes, clothing and gifts.
“Over the last years I have done different ‘crazy’ art crossover projects. I like painting pianos, clothing, walls and windows, etc. Even garbage — like wooden doors — I found on the street.”
According to Riezebos, art can be very easy as well as very complicated, depending on the perspective, philosophy and psychology of its creator. Although his works often refer to deeper manifestations of human live, thinking and experiences, he also tries to make his pieces easy to understand. By using daily life objects, especially those that are not perceived as art by their physical appearance and usage, he try to communicate on a larger scale, to a larger audience.
Crossover is part of his program to share his ideas with the wider world.
“Just imagine how interesting it is to go beyond my paintings on canvasses and have people having an art door, art shoes or an art piano in their life. I just love it!” he said. “The meaning of art crossover, in my opinion, is that we understand that art lovers are becoming more diverse, and that art is going beyond its own boundaries (like art should). Art is reshaping itself, and manifesting itself on new grounds.”
The salon was among more than 30 art events which were organized by Shanghai Daily Art Vision project and Top Tier. These events aim to provide people with unique art experiences in high-end venues.
Cachet Boutique Hotel, as the venue for this event, has always had great tastes in art. Its artistic emphasis is evident as soon as guests step inside the ground-floor hotel lobby, which features a gallery space and a digital art wall setting a creative ambience. The hotel is located in a 1920s stone building, an art piece itself, overlooking Shanghai’s main commercial and shopping street of West Nanjing Road.
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