
ShanghART M50 is pleased to present Carte Blanche, an exhibition program curated by artists at ShanghART M50 since 2017. Following the exhibition Decoherence curated by artist Liu Weijian in November 2017, the group show Les 4 Coups curated by Tang Guo is the second exhibition of this program.
‘Using their own ways to face arts, is the truth to open themselves. Even these practices are conventional, they continue to present. These are methods to analsze themselves; to exclude difficulties or anxieties and to confirm self-existences.’–Tang Guo
The barbed needle iteratively punctures through the pink wool and the ball. It creates a primordially private but surrealistically absurd view inside the organ through these unbroken and broken constructions.
The Dead Sea, in size of 6 times 2 square kilometres, is the largest and most intensive human graveyard for wasted satellites and aircrafts. In thousands of years of silent shadow, sleeping objects have been pulled up from this area. These data measured from natural changes, delicately creates greyish black blocks.
Inside different shapes of human shells, there are representatives of everyday disguise, outsiders’ imprisonment and the weakness hiding beneath these shells.
In 2013, a 1976 geological environment analysis map of Bordeaux got from École Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris shows different periods of evolution and structure of soil, wind, and water. This map attracts me during the five years in Bordeaux. Hence, trying to restore and release the natural power stored inside abstract symbols on canvas.




Founded in 1996, ShanghART Gallery is one of the first contemporary art galleries established in China. With spaces in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, ShanghART has been a driving force of the development of Chinese contemporary art for the past twenty years. Working closely together with over 40 artists, ShanghART regularly participates in the major international art fairs and collaborates with important art institutions in China and from all over the world.

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