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Geng Jianyi

GENG JIANYI

The Artist Researcher ShanghART 18 January–28 February 2013 Singapore
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ShanghART Singapore first full scale exhibition presents GENG Jianyi, this pioneer of Chinese avant-garde art. GENG Jianyi’s first solo show in Singapore will feature works spanning over 20 years of an astonishing artistic career based on a distinctive exploration of identity and research into art, philosophy and life. GENG Jianyi, born in 1962 and graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, held recently a much acclaimed retrospective at Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai) and received the CCAA Award for Life Time Achievement in 2012.
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The work of the artist Geng Jianyi is characterised by an uncompromising resistance to any categorical form of representation. Since the mid 1980s, when he first came to prominence within the People’s Republic of China as a seminal member of the ‘avant-garde’ movement known as the ’85 New Wave, Geng has sought to foment this resistance through the use of a wide range of techniques―including various forms of painterly transcription, staining, frottage, photographic and filmic transfer, chemical transformation and textual juxtaposition—whose conspicuously disjunctive effects constantly undermine any attempt to arrive at definitive meaning.

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About the Gallery

When ShanghArt Gallery opened its doors in Shanghai in 1996, it was one of the first contemporary art galleries in China. Today, the gallery operates from two spaces in the city (West Bund and Putuo District), with additional locations in Beijing and Singapore.

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9 Lock Road, 02–22
Gillman Barracks
Singapore
Singapore
Opening Hours
Wednesday – Sunday
11am – 7pm
Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Public Holidays
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Singapore 9 Lock Road, 02–22, Gillman Barracks
ShanghART contemporary art gallery in Singapore
ShanghART
9 Lock Road, 02–22, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, Singapore
+65 673 495 37
http://www.shanghartgallery.com

Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday
11am – 7pm
Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Public Holidays
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