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ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present CHEN Xiaoyun’s solo exhibition Arrival, showing the artist’s most recent paintings that feature one single object—octopus. The exhibition runs from 3 November to 18 December, 2018.

The ‘arrival’ hypothesis is a sacred moment about future, which contains our fear or joy of the unknowable. As the starting and finishing point of all anxieties and chaos, and also the Holy Spirit or devil, it dominates our imagination of reality and the past. It is a pessimism or optimism about future; it relates to fate, three games within the time frame—life, death and immortality, as well as conflict and banter. The fallen soul and the numb body look forward to a one-off carnival. In stains and broken illusions, the future is a being without shape, which constantly arrives from different directions.

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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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