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Chen Xiaoyun

CHEN XIAOYUN

'Zhuiku Tablet' Annotation ShanghART 24 March–2 May 2012 Beijing
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ShanghART Beijing is honoured to present ’Zhuiku Tablet’ Annotation, solo exhibition of artist CHEN Xiaoyun. As the first solo exhibition staged in ShanghART Beijing in 2012, it is going to be the debut of a dozen artworks including photographs and paintings, which around a fictitious theme develop profound configurational interpretation. Uniquely characterised by semantic ambience of notes and essays, the exhibition is deluged with anxiety and darkness, where correlation between paintings and photographs is unified in the filed of lingual fantasy. Since 1999, CHEN Xiaoyu has been concentrating himself mainly in photography while this exhibition, with the set of photos, speaks another attempt by the artist over long-term practice in this very realm.

‘Zhuiku Tablet’ Annotation, furnishing pictorial annotation of Zhuiku Tablet, a book from which both rhetorical and emotional elements are introduced and unfolded as premise of painting or photography creation, renders imaginatively a withering and waning world infused with verbal consciousness, uttering a passive voice to a few elementary illusions.

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About the Artist

Chen Xiaoyun’s works are always in an artistic and poetic style, with perceptual thinking running through narrative structure, and use individual fragments of consciousness as a ferry to the real world in a video format. His works usually start with a caption, a dialogue, or a motion, being overlapped, refined, and abstracted, to stir up our known world to be crazier and more ridiculous, or more hesitate and more vain.

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About the Gallery

ShanghART gallery was initiated in 1996 in Shanghai. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital resource to the development of contemporary art in China with two spaces in 50 Moganshan Road (Main Space and H-Space), a public warehouse space in West of Shanghai (ShanghART Taopu), and a gallery space in Beijing and representing over 40 artists.

Being recognized for its importance ShanghART became the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel and Fiac, Paris. ShanghART gallery also enjoys the great respect of being among the 75 most influencial galleries selected in Thames & Hudson’s publication ‘International Art Galleries: Post-war to Post-millennium.’

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261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
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Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 6pm

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Beijing 261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District
ShanghART contemporary art gallery in Beijing China
ShanghART
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
+86 106 432 3202
http://www.shanghartgallery.com

Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 6pm

Closed Sunday and Monday
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