XIONG WENYUN

The series of Japanese rock-dyestuff figure painting from mid 1990s are super important works in this artist’s career experience. This series combines the artist’s early study of traditional Chinese painting, and also absorbs the methods learned from Rock-dyestuff Painting in Japan. These artworks are luxuriant and special in their painting languages and materials. The contents of the artworks is from Xiong Wenyun’s early labor life experience in Tibetan area during The Great Cultural Revolution. This series of works was ever exhibited on the solo exhibition at National Art Museum of China in 1996.

Xiong Wenyun’s The Flowing Rainbow is a comprehensive art project created in 1998 and continued to this day, which integrates multiple complicacy including conceptual art, performance art, land art, environment intervention, etc. It has made a lot of social influence and interactions through all kinds of media dissemination. The Flowing Rainbow project also derives from the Xiong Wenyun’s impressive memories about her youth experience in Tibetan area. At the beginning of 1999, on 4200 metres’ altitude of Quer Mountain, the first high wave was set off, creating the most powerful works and video documents of the first time. Then she continued this project in Palermo, Italy in 2006 and in Niigata-ken, Japan in 2012. From the memory with rainbow colors of Tibetan youth life, the artist further extracted the abstract minimal blocks of colours. In order to settle them at places such as mountain of Tibet plateau, wilderness, ancient city of Italy, Japanese fane and so on, Xiong Wenyun makes colours into canvas tops, curtains and through methods like daubing colours, etc. Thus, through these artistic behaviours, personal life experience and youth memories have made a complicated meaning of sense, calling us for multiple reflection about nationality, habitation, environment and history, etc.

Xiong Wenyun The Flowing Rainbow solo exhibition is going to be exhibited at the historical building of The Temple House on Bitieshi Street. It will combine The Temple House with the history and culture of Taikoo Li, and also transform the relationship of The Temple House and the international pluralistic pattern of Taikoo Li into dialogues. And this will benefit the public to study cultural subjects including history and culture, modern habitation and natural environment, cultural differences and the blending of multiple nationalities, etc.