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406 Not Acceptable
Note: Wang Guangyi is the leading protagonist of the post-1989 Political Pop movement - one of the major artistic movements to have developed in the aftermath of the events of 1989 - Tiananmen Square and the closure of the China/Avant Garde exhibition at the China National Gallery. Wang Guangyi's aesthetics entails sampling of various imagery (such as well-known propaganda-images and photographs), and fusing them with corporate brand-names in order to undermine their original purpose. In combining ideology and advertisement, he criticizes the apparent 'truths' of both. In short, he marks the Socialist Realist iconography and symbols with another contradictory discursive system. In the mid-1980s, Wang Guangyi espoused a humanist vision of art for post-Mao China. His series of paintings entitled "Frozen North Pole" sought to evoke, in the artist's words, "a kind of beauty of sublime reason which contains constant, harmonious feelings of humanity."
Posted by mike510218, at 01:20PM 10/30/07 :
Yue Minjun - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Yue Minjun, with Fang Lijun, is one of the most important Beijing-based artists of the Chinese Avant Garde. He is part of the key movement of the post-1989 era in Chinese Avant Garde art - Cynical Realism. In the early 1990s Yue Minjun was part of the artistic community at Yuan Ming Yuan. This area on the outskirts of Beijing is a large park where young artists from all over China rented cheap housing from the local farmers. Apart from the low rents, the place had the great advantage of being for from the attentive eye of the authority. The Paintings, sculptures and installations of Yue Minjun always feature uniform laughing faces. And if these laughing faces are observed carefully, it will be noticed that these faces are the face of Yue Minjun.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:10PM 10/30/07 :
Zeng Fanzhi - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Zeng Fanzhi graduated from the oil painting department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to Beijing in 1993, and the collection of works that can be seen here reflects the transformations that have occurred in his painting during this time, and in the face of a dense, modern, and rapidly changing, capital city. In the beginning of his artistic career Zeng Fanzhi painted apocalyptic, expressionist images, thus manipulating modernist compositional effects to intensify his sinister version of reality. His representational work reveals the place of the unconscious, the aberrant, in the construction of experience. The large, clenched hands of his subjects are almost more conspicuous than their stereotyped faces and wide-open eyes. To be human is to live in uncertainty, exposed to the gaze of a merciless world. There is a stark terror at the foundation of existence, coupled with a yearning for love and acceptance, or at least for a secure perch.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:01PM 10/30/07 :
Li Songsong - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Li Songsong, a young artist in the 70s has been in recent years investigating the relation between public images and their transposition onto canvas. In the shift to painting these pictures, which are mainly old photos related to historical characters and facts, he hasn’t protracted the cognitive style as for some previous artists’ practice of criticizing, exposing, questioning, or satirizing and propagandizing about a certain historical period, but has used a kind of imagery enacting an objective approach. Li Songsong (b. 1973, Beijing) is widely considered one the most important painters of his generation. Since graduating from Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996, Li's paintings - rendered with a lush impasto and often based on photographs of China's modern history - have been featured prominently in important group exhibitions throughout the world. Li Songsong - Hypnogenesis offers Beijing audiences a rare opportunity to see a powerful selection of Li's new, large-scale works.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:00PM 10/30/07 :
Zhang Huan - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Zhang is considered one of the most influential artists who belonged to the group 'Beijing East Village," a kind of art colony located in the rural outskirts of Beijing. There artists would perform works exploring issues surrounding consumerism, sexuality, gender and personal suffering in or around their homes. Zhang Huan's often traumatic performances are memory retrievals, recollections of suffering. For example, a 1994 performance in a public toilet in a rundown area of Beijing referred to the abortions and female infanticides which occurred under the Chinese government's one child policy. His performance art is bound to provoke By Cate McQuaid Zhang Huan is the type of artist whom many outside the rarefied world of performance art label a crackpot. He has covered his naked body in honey and fish oil and sat in a public toilet, attracting flies.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:58PM 10/30/07 :
Fang Lijun - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Fang Lijun is the leading protagonist of Cynical Realism, the major movement of the post-1989 era in contemporary Chinese art. Cynical Realism, an urban based movement, developed in the aftermath of the events of 1989 which included not only the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square but the closure earlier that year of the “China Avant Garde” exhibition at the China National Gallery in Beijing by the authorities. Chinese artist Fang Lijun, born in 1963, is the recognized leader of the “Cynical Realism” art movement. This generation of artists grew up during the Cultural Revolution, witnessed its subsequent demise (1977), and faced disillusionment when the mass movement to introduce democracy in China ended violently at Tiananmen Square (1989). Fang Lijun endured a rather difficult childhood. Stigmatized as a ‘rich peasant’ during the Cultural Revolution, Fang routinely endured taunts and witnessed the humiliation of his family members. To protect him from persecution by his peers and neighbors, Fang’s father kept his son at home and taught him painting, whereby instilling an early interest in the arts that was soon to evolve into a promising career.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:57PM 10/30/07 :
Rudolf Stingel - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Though Rudolph Stingel’s work isn’t presented on traditional canvases he is a painter in the purest sense. Through his instructional photographs and installations, his work explores the essence of making, gesture, and expression through questioning authenticity and authorship. Often inviting the audience to interact with his work, Stingel promulgates the artistic process, allowing his artworks to develop as public ‘collaborations’. Rudolf Stingel's Conceptual paintings and site-specific installations deconstruct, in order to popularize, the processes of making art. In 1989, he produced an instruction manual on how to make abstract paintings and duly painted according to its formula for a decade. In another take on the notion of do-it-yourself artwork, Stingel often covers the gallery walls with reflective insulation boards. The first time he showed these silver "paintings," viewers scrawled all over them; but rather than seeing this as a defacement of his work, the artist responded by upping the ante. His wall coverings have since become increasingly baroque in terms of their decorative elements, thereby challenging viewers to reconsider their preconceived ideas about what constitutes a legitimate surface for graffiti. Through reconsidering the appreciation of aesthetics as a relational experience, Stingel challenges ideas of cultural hierarchy, modes of production, and the mythology of the artist.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:55PM 10/30/07 :
Jenny Saville - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Completing her studies at the Glasgow School of Art in 1992, Jenny Saville's graduation was a huge success; every painting was sold - one to British mega-collector Charles Saatchi. By the time she was preparing to return to college for her post-graduate studies, Saatchi had tracked down the other works that had already been sold and bought them too. He then offered the artist an 18-month contract, supporting her while she created new work to be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London. It was an explosive start to a young artist's career. The images that had catapulted Saville into the international art world were born from a fusion of her addictive love of painting and strong interest in feminist theory. Yet Saville's chosen methods - large oil paintings of female nudes - were oddly outmoded: implicitly associated with a male-dominated art history. That she has managed to use such means to put forward a consistent, credible statement as a contemporary female artist is testament to the singularity of her vision.
Posted by mike510218, at 06:42AM 10/17/07 and by 1 others:
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Note: The audience for exhibitions of contemporary art has increased widely during the last ten years as general awareness and interest in contemporary art has developed in Britain. The Saatchi Gallery has worked with media sponsors on a number of shows including The Observer, The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday and Time Out.
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Posted by mike510218, at 01:21PM 10/30/07 :406 Not Acceptable
Note: Wang Guangyi is the leading protagonist of the post-1989 Political Pop movement - one of the major artistic movements to have developed in the aftermath of the events of 1989 - Tiananmen Square and the closure of the China/Avant Garde exhibition at the China National Gallery. Wang Guangyi's aesthetics entails sampling of various imagery (such as well-known propaganda-images and photographs), and fusing them with corporate brand-names in order to undermine their original purpose. In combining ideology and advertisement, he criticizes the apparent 'truths' of both. In short, he marks the Socialist Realist iconography and symbols with another contradictory discursive system. In the mid-1980s, Wang Guangyi espoused a humanist vision of art for post-Mao China. His series of paintings entitled "Frozen North Pole" sought to evoke, in the artist's words, "a kind of beauty of sublime reason which contains constant, harmonious feelings of humanity."
Posted by mike510218, at 01:20PM 10/30/07 :Yue Minjun - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Yue Minjun, with Fang Lijun, is one of the most important Beijing-based artists of the Chinese Avant Garde. He is part of the key movement of the post-1989 era in Chinese Avant Garde art - Cynical Realism. In the early 1990s Yue Minjun was part of the artistic community at Yuan Ming Yuan. This area on the outskirts of Beijing is a large park where young artists from all over China rented cheap housing from the local farmers. Apart from the low rents, the place had the great advantage of being for from the attentive eye of the authority. The Paintings, sculptures and installations of Yue Minjun always feature uniform laughing faces. And if these laughing faces are observed carefully, it will be noticed that these faces are the face of Yue Minjun.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:10PM 10/30/07 :Zeng Fanzhi - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Zeng Fanzhi graduated from the oil painting department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to Beijing in 1993, and the collection of works that can be seen here reflects the transformations that have occurred in his painting during this time, and in the face of a dense, modern, and rapidly changing, capital city. In the beginning of his artistic career Zeng Fanzhi painted apocalyptic, expressionist images, thus manipulating modernist compositional effects to intensify his sinister version of reality. His representational work reveals the place of the unconscious, the aberrant, in the construction of experience. The large, clenched hands of his subjects are almost more conspicuous than their stereotyped faces and wide-open eyes. To be human is to live in uncertainty, exposed to the gaze of a merciless world. There is a stark terror at the foundation of existence, coupled with a yearning for love and acceptance, or at least for a secure perch.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:01PM 10/30/07 :Li Songsong - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Li Songsong, a young artist in the 70s has been in recent years investigating the relation between public images and their transposition onto canvas. In the shift to painting these pictures, which are mainly old photos related to historical characters and facts, he hasn’t protracted the cognitive style as for some previous artists’ practice of criticizing, exposing, questioning, or satirizing and propagandizing about a certain historical period, but has used a kind of imagery enacting an objective approach. Li Songsong (b. 1973, Beijing) is widely considered one the most important painters of his generation. Since graduating from Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996, Li's paintings - rendered with a lush impasto and often based on photographs of China's modern history - have been featured prominently in important group exhibitions throughout the world. Li Songsong - Hypnogenesis offers Beijing audiences a rare opportunity to see a powerful selection of Li's new, large-scale works.
Posted by mike510218, at 01:00PM 10/30/07 :Zhang Huan - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Zhang is considered one of the most influential artists who belonged to the group 'Beijing East Village," a kind of art colony located in the rural outskirts of Beijing. There artists would perform works exploring issues surrounding consumerism, sexuality, gender and personal suffering in or around their homes. Zhang Huan's often traumatic performances are memory retrievals, recollections of suffering. For example, a 1994 performance in a public toilet in a rundown area of Beijing referred to the abortions and female infanticides which occurred under the Chinese government's one child policy. His performance art is bound to provoke By Cate McQuaid Zhang Huan is the type of artist whom many outside the rarefied world of performance art label a crackpot. He has covered his naked body in honey and fish oil and sat in a public toilet, attracting flies.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:58PM 10/30/07 :Fang Lijun - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Fang Lijun is the leading protagonist of Cynical Realism, the major movement of the post-1989 era in contemporary Chinese art. Cynical Realism, an urban based movement, developed in the aftermath of the events of 1989 which included not only the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square but the closure earlier that year of the “China Avant Garde” exhibition at the China National Gallery in Beijing by the authorities. Chinese artist Fang Lijun, born in 1963, is the recognized leader of the “Cynical Realism” art movement. This generation of artists grew up during the Cultural Revolution, witnessed its subsequent demise (1977), and faced disillusionment when the mass movement to introduce democracy in China ended violently at Tiananmen Square (1989). Fang Lijun endured a rather difficult childhood. Stigmatized as a ‘rich peasant’ during the Cultural Revolution, Fang routinely endured taunts and witnessed the humiliation of his family members. To protect him from persecution by his peers and neighbors, Fang’s father kept his son at home and taught him painting, whereby instilling an early interest in the arts that was soon to evolve into a promising career.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:57PM 10/30/07 :Rudolf Stingel - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Though Rudolph Stingel’s work isn’t presented on traditional canvases he is a painter in the purest sense. Through his instructional photographs and installations, his work explores the essence of making, gesture, and expression through questioning authenticity and authorship. Often inviting the audience to interact with his work, Stingel promulgates the artistic process, allowing his artworks to develop as public ‘collaborations’. Rudolf Stingel's Conceptual paintings and site-specific installations deconstruct, in order to popularize, the processes of making art. In 1989, he produced an instruction manual on how to make abstract paintings and duly painted according to its formula for a decade. In another take on the notion of do-it-yourself artwork, Stingel often covers the gallery walls with reflective insulation boards. The first time he showed these silver "paintings," viewers scrawled all over them; but rather than seeing this as a defacement of his work, the artist responded by upping the ante. His wall coverings have since become increasingly baroque in terms of their decorative elements, thereby challenging viewers to reconsider their preconceived ideas about what constitutes a legitimate surface for graffiti. Through reconsidering the appreciation of aesthetics as a relational experience, Stingel challenges ideas of cultural hierarchy, modes of production, and the mythology of the artist.
Posted by mike510218, at 12:55PM 10/30/07 :Jenny Saville - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Note: Completing her studies at the Glasgow School of Art in 1992, Jenny Saville's graduation was a huge success; every painting was sold - one to British mega-collector Charles Saatchi. By the time she was preparing to return to college for her post-graduate studies, Saatchi had tracked down the other works that had already been sold and bought them too. He then offered the artist an 18-month contract, supporting her while she created new work to be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London. It was an explosive start to a young artist's career. The images that had catapulted Saville into the international art world were born from a fusion of her addictive love of painting and strong interest in feminist theory. Yet Saville's chosen methods - large oil paintings of female nudes - were oddly outmoded: implicitly associated with a male-dominated art history. That she has managed to use such means to put forward a consistent, credible statement as a contemporary female artist is testament to the singularity of her vision.
Posted by mike510218, at 06:42AM 10/17/07 and by 1 others:http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
Note: The audience for exhibitions of contemporary art has increased widely during the last ten years as general awareness and interest in contemporary art has developed in Britain. The Saatchi Gallery has worked with media sponsors on a number of shows including The Observer, The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday and Time Out.
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