The Cultural Experience of Post -80s artists in China: three from the next generation in Singapore
12 January 2012, Singapore - Three emerging and up- and -coming Chinese artists will be in Singapore as part of a two week long exhibition titled Savor: The Cultural Experience of Post-80s Artists in China at The Arts House that presents the cultural experiences of the younger generation of artists from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China’s oldest art academy of higher learning.
The three artists are Xingxin (b. 1981), Yudu (b. 1980) and Qiuxia, all who with the exception of Xingxin, are predominantly known in China and have not exhibited outside the East Asia region. Although a sculptor by training, Xingxin has gained exposure through his performance works that developed from his investigations as a sculptor into more complex installations that explore concept of time, space, and existence. Savor: The Cultural Experience of Post-80s Artists in China will feature three of Xingxin’s sculptures.
The exhibition, which will see close to 60 paintings and fourteen sculptures, will also feature the works of five other artists: Zhang zhenxue, Guowei, Tianxia, Li binbin and Zenglinxing.
Says co-organiser of the exhibition, Tan Kuan Yew, Regional Representative of Tank Loft Chongqing Contemporary Art Centre and Regional Representative of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, one of China’s famous eight art colleges: “As one of the key aims of the exhibition is to feature the new generation of Chinese artists and their interpretations of contemporary life and issues, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute is proud to have eight of its alumni in this event.
“As most of the artists featured in this exhibition are still rising stars within China’s visual arts scene and primarily still only widely-known within China, we have selected these artists as we believe that in the near future they will be in the forefront of contemporary Chinese art and their works highly sought after.”
The works by the eight artists range from the playful to the serious and contemplative and the subject matter and techniques employ either challenging traditional frameworks and concepts or present bold and insightful critique of contemporary society.
Savor: The Cultural Experience of Post-80s Artists in China is on at The Arts House from 11 Jan until 31 January. Contact 6332-6900 for exhibition details.
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For MEDIA queries, please contact:
Tan Kuan Yew
Regional Representative
Tank Loft Chongqing Contemporary Art Centre
+65 - 97909699
Annex 1
Xing xin
Born in Yuzhong District, Chongqing in 1981. Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institude & Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts with a major in Sculpture
Awards:
Merit Award of Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macao Museum of Art
Solo Exhibition:
July, 2010: Meditation on Floating Ice, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, China
June, 2009: A4 Gallery, Chengdu: Venice on the other side – the third scene of “The Black Box” in the 53rd Venice Biennale Exhibition
Group Exhibition:
2010
*Conception as Enzyme Exhibition, A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China
*2010 Organhaus Chongqing International Artist Workshop, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
*Art Life & Life Art - The 2nd Changsha Live Art Festival, New Millennium Center for Contemporary Art,
Changsha, China
*Nature of China - 2010 Contemporary Art Documenta, True Color Museum, Suzhou, China
*PERSONAL STRUCTURES TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz,
Austria.
2009
*Artists Community Exhibition, 2009 The Fifth Culutral & Arts Festival of SongZhuang China, Beijing
*The First Chongqing Biennale, Chongqing, China
*Glasstress, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
* Macao Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
*Five Elements, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition of Five Artists, A4 Gallary, Chengdu, China
2008
*Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macao Museum of Art,
Macao, China
*The 4th China Songzhuang Culture & Art Festival, The Progress of Songzhuang, Songzhuang Original Art Center, Beijing, China
*UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Beicun Art Center, Chengdu, China
*“Times·Impression”, Chinese Contemporary Sculptor Invitational Exhibition, Hanyu Cubic Art Center, ShenZhen,
China
*Guyu Act Xi’an, City Joint Act of China’s Contemporary Performance Art, Guyu Art Space, CHina
2007
* The 3rd China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2007, Sanshengxiang Art Village, China
*Echoes, Exhibition of Documentaries of Chengdu New Visual Art, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
*Annual Exhibition of Sichuan Sculptors’ Works 2007, HuBiaoXing Art Museum, Chengdu, China
*Eight Areas, Performance Art Exchange Exhibition, K Gallary, Chengdu, China
*“Start from Southwest” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong, China
*Vital International Chinese Live Art Festival, 501 Contemporary Art Warehouse, Chongqing, China
*“New Power” Nominated Exhibition 2007, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
*2006, The 4th DaDao International Live Art Festival, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
*The 7th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
*“New Anecdotes of the Time” Contemporary Art Exhibition, QiSheng Art Space
*The 1st “New Power·China” Contemporary Art Biennale, YuanGong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
*“In the Name of Object”, Invitational Exhibition of Sculpture 2006, Shan Gallary, Shanghai, China
*“New Generation in Chengdu” Contemporary Art Exhibition in Macao, OX Warehouse, Macao, China
*The 3rd Nongmin Street Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nongmin Street Art Center, Chengdu, China
2006
* China-Japan Performance Art National Tour Exhibition, Nongmin Street Art Center, Chengdu, China
2005
* “Rights of the Body” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue Space Gallary, Chengdu, China
*“×× ACTS ××” Macao Contemporary Art Exhibition, OX Warehouse, Macao, China
*“MIPAF05” Macao International Performance Art Exhibition, OX Warehouse, Macao, China
*The 6th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Nongyuan International Art Village, Chengdu,
China
2004
*“Ten Bricks” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue Space Gallary, Chengdu, China
* Fei Fei Fei Contemporarty Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2003
* “Making Objects” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Painting and Calligraphy Institute of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Annex II
Yu Du
1980 Born in Chongqing. Started studying traditional Chinese painting at childhood. Taught by famous landscape painter Mr. Chen Tiequn
1996 Studied in Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
2000 Studied in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Oil Painting Department
2004 Studied in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Graduate School of Oil Painting Department, taught by professor Pang Maokun
2007 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with Master's Degree in Oil Painting, and began teaching in school
2008 Graduated from the first Art Education Advanced Training Class of Tsinghua University School of Fine Arts
Exhibitions
Works participated in The National Exhibition in Memory of the 60th Anniversary of Mao Zedong's “Speech in Yan'an”; The National Tour Exhibition of China Art Academy's Affiliating Middle Schools; The First Chongqing Oil Painting Exhibition and the Third China Oil Painting Exhibition; TheThird Chongqing Artwork Exhibition; The Design Competition Exhibition of National University Students; Exhibition by Invitation of Chengdu Potential Young Artists; Speech of the Roots·A Sociological Research Art Exhibition; Opening Exhibition of 501 Art Center; Shenzhen Contemporary Art Festival·Between Two Extremes Exhibition by Invitation of Young Artists; Cornucopia of SAFA Oil Painting Neophytes Are Growing·Beijing Today Art Museum Art Exhibition; Shanghai Art Scene Gallery White Art Exhibition; "Pattern" 2008 Exhibition of Contemporary Art·Shenzhen; The Second Shenzhen Art Festival "Collide" Contemporary Art Exhibition; "Southwest Power" Contemporary Art Exhibition Tour·Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu; 2009 Sichuan Fine Art Institute Teacher Work Exhibition; Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Work Exhibition Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Foundation of the People's Republic of China; The Fourth Chongqing Art Exhibition Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Foundation of the People's Republic of China and the 11th National Art Exhibition Chongqing Exhibition; Respective Speeches: the First Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition of the West; The First Chongqing Biennale: Special Recommendation Exhibition of University Teachers and Students; Taiwan, Kunming, Chongqing, and Chengdu Young Artist Exhibition by Invitation and series of group exhibitions; The 70th Anniversary of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts: Successive Works of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Exhibition; Farewell Blossoms: Yu Du Easel Work Exhibition
Publications
“Basic Sketch” (Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Training School) Published in the first year of undergraduate study
“Yu Du's Works - Sketch Volume” (Chongqing Press) Published in the first year of graduate study
“Advanced Trainings for National Middle Schools Affiliated with Art Academies: SAFA Volume” (Jiangsu Art Press) Published in the second year of graduate study
Issues
Exercise works have been issued in more than 20 various teaching catalogues and works have been issued in academic journals, yearbooks, and catalogues like Pictorial, Art Field, Contemporary Artist,Art Classics, Northwest Art, Art Online·Zhuoke Arts, China Contemporary Art 2007 and etc.
Annex III
Qiu Xia
2003 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with Bachelor's Degree in Sculpture
2006 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with Master's Degree in Sculpture
2008 Began teaching in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts till now
Exhibitions
2001 Dream selected by the National Artwork Exhibition in Memory of the 60th Anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong's Issue of <Speech in Yan'an Art and Literature Forum>
2002 Participated and organized Chongqing Emulsion Experimental Art Exhibition
2002 Totem selected by the Yearbook of National Art Academy Student Works
2003 The Red Detachment of Women awarded Work of Merit in 2003 Diaosu.cn "Dalian Jinhe" Cup National Graduate Student Work Competition, selected by the third Shanghai Young Sculptor Exhibition by Invitation, and by the tenth National Art Exhibition Chongqing Exhibition
2003 Sculpture proposal Agreeable Rain selected by Love of Water Proposal Exhibition of the first Shanghai Jiangnan Oasis Future Sculptor Star
2004 Sand sculpture Flying Sail awarded the third prize of Qingdao International Sand Sculpture Art Festival
2005 I Want To Grow Up selected by In Memory of the 60th Anniversary of Anti-Fascism War Sculpture Tour Exhibition Chongqing
2006 Deity's Musical Instrument participated in Zendai MOMA "Geomantic Omen" Art Exhibition
2007 Deity's Musical Instrument participated in Chengdu "The Metamorphosis" Exhibition of Eight Emerging Scul
2007 minicubes participated in "Pure Form" Chongqing First Abstract Art Exhibition
2007 Deity's Musical Instrument participated in the peripheral exhibition of Beijing Songzhuang Contemporary Art Grand
Annex IV
When There’s Bright Moon (oil on canvas, 250 cm x 80 cm x 3, 2010) by Yu Du
Annex V
Taiji No. 1 (painted fibre glass, 100 cm x 75 cm x 34 cm, 2011) by Qiu Xia
