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Exhibition
Hello, Human!
One year project – Outing
Semiotics of the Home
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2017 / 03 / 11 Sat.
2017 / 04 / 23 Sun.
10:00 - 18:00
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MOCA Studio
Curator ─ Chang Li-Hao
The Chinese contemporary art scene in the 21st century has gradually moved away from popular art trends and its previous emphasis on the avant-garde in the scope of Western aesthetics. Instead, artists and scholars have begun collaborating to reconstruct traditional aesthetics, hoping to reinvent artistic forms and styles with rich historical and cultural resource as well as to change existing narrative structure and incorporate contemporary vocabularies. Xiao Xu, in this light, is a significantly representative artist from the post-80s generation in China.
The exhibition title, Envisioning the Immortal Island, not only demonstrates the artist's circumspection in preparing for his first solo exhibition in Taiwan, but also foregrounds his endeavors in finding his own position in an era when contemporary art has flourished in diversity. Through minute depiction and repetitive inking and ink layering, Xiao has created an imaginative realm enshrouded in mist and cloud with ancient flora and fauna in the nine elaborate paintings showcased in the exhibition. His artistic vocabularies remind viewers of the landscape painting by many great artists from various Chinese historic periods, such as the Tang, Sung, Yuan, and Ming dynasties when artists tended to illustrate their cosmic and spiritual view and understanding with sceneries. However, the artist uses shades of ink to depict the shading of mountain stones and deliberately omits changes in depth, different facets of his subject matter, and spacing. In addition, he also implicitly guides viewers' line of vision through interweaving the delineation of the real and the void so that the image is often embedded with narrative signs and symbols informed by magical realism in literature. These approaches have all unfolded Xiao's strong intention to break the dichotomous, opposing values and cultural narratives of the traditional and the contemporary as well as the East and the West. By doing so, he allows different spaces and times to collide, and like after repeated rehearsals, an amalgamation between rationally calculated results and contingent events is created, triggering different perception of the viewers.
Curator - Chang Li-Hao
Living reclusively in chilly Tamsui, Chang Li-Hao is an art critic and independent curator. Sine 2000, he has worked as editorial journalist for ARTCO, chief editor for Art & Collection and Art Investment, and deputy editor-in-chief for Artitude and Art Plus. Chang has been focusing on the development and market of Chinese modern and contemporary calligraphy and painting as well as Asian contemporary art. His art criticism could be seen in multiple publications of art, design, finance and economy.
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Xiao Xu was born in Chongqing in 1983. He holds an MFA in Chinese painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and works and lives in Beijing now. He adopts the techniques of ink layering and repetitive inking and great literary imagination to construct a shadowy spiritual realm that integrates the aesthetics of traditional Chinese landscape painting and personal feelings. His endeavor has infused much possibility for innovation in the creation and reading of Chinese ink painting.
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