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16/11/2010

Four Exhibitions

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art UCCA, Beijing

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
Curated by Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director；Guo Xiaoyan

Comprised of paintings, extensive diary entries and a documentary film by iconic Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Hometown Boy offers the first complete perspective on the artistic practice of Liu Xiaodong, one of China's most respected painters. This multifaceted exhibition was designed and created specifically for UCCA.

Liu Xiaodong approaches his work much like a filmmaker. On paper and canvas, on video and film, he documents each step of the creative process, recording his methods, motives, observations and impressions, so that each component forms an integral part of the final work. He is the artist-as-director: the people he paints are his actors, and we, the observers, are the audience.

Liu Xiaodong was only seventeen when he left his hometown of Jincheng to study art in Beijing. Despite his travels to exotic and familiar locales and the many portraits painted over the years – one critic describes them as "the psychic composite of a nation" – Hometown Boy marks the artist's first extended trip home in three decades. Economic development and the passage of time have changed the landscape of his hometown and altered the lives and faces of the people he grew up with. With his unerring eye for detail, Liu Xiaodong's landscapes of Jincheng and portraits of his boyhood friends are based not on what he remembers, but on what he observes. The result of his homecoming is the body of work that fills these three rooms.

November 17, 2010 - February 20, 2011
UCCA Big Hall

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“Curated By Sui Jianguo”Lu Zhengyuan: 84 Days, 84 Works
curated by Sui Jianguo
Project Coordinator: Joy Bloser

In this latest addition to UCCA's "Curated by..." series, acclaimed sculptor Sui Jianguo guides former student Lu Zhengyuan through an ambitious attempt to create 84 unique works of art in 84 days. There are no restrictions on the form, content, or media used, only that the artist himself considers each piece to be a work of art. Each work will be conceived, executed and delivered to UCCA in the course of a single day.

For this reason, the exhibition will be constantly evolving. No one – neither the artist nor the curator nor us – knows exactly how it will change each day, or what it will look like in the end.

84 Days, 84 Works combines deadlines, production, creativity andunpredictability to test the ingenuity of one of China's up-and-coming young artists.

November 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011
UCCA White Cube & Black Box

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Yang Yong: Lightscape
curated by Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director

In Lightscape , painter and photographer Yang Yong illuminates the UCCA Nave with an installation of 200 custom-designed hanging lamps that reflect our obsession with today's global media. Each lamp is hand-painted with attention-grabbing images of famous models, pop culture icons, sports matches, car crashes, natural disasters, scandals and current events. By transferring these provocative visuals onto something as mundane as the household lamp, Yang Yong reminds us of just how mainstream media sensationalism has become. For him and other members of China's digital generation who grew up borrowing, spreading, sharing and appropriating images online, information overload and the media glut are just part of the scenery, as familiar as the furnishings in one's home.
Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director

November 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011
UCCA Nave

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Thukral & Tagra: Match Fixed
Curated by Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director

With their signature style of "Punjabi baroque," Indian artistic duo Thukral & Tagra transform UCCA's Middle Room into a playing field on which marriage, tradition and global ambitions collide.

The concept is playful – the ancient Indian sport of Kabbadi being played in a middleclass living room – but the subject matter is intensely serious. Match Fixed is a biting satire of arranged marriages in India's northern state of Punjab, where many young men emigrate abroad to establish successful careers and return home briefly to enter into arranged matches with "suitable" local girls. All too often, these unions result in the groom running off with the dowry and the wife left at home, to the chagrin of her family, awaiting a visa and plane ticket that never arrive.

Featuring life-sized "human trophies," gilt-wrapped television sets playing interviews with abandoned wives, ceiling fans hung with paternal pagri (turbans) and "runaway husbands" glimpsed through airplane windows, Match Fixed is a rococo rendering of real-life sorrow.
Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director

November 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011
UCCA Middle Room

About UCCA
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is a non-profit, comprehensive art center founded in Beijing by collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007. UCCA presents exhibitions of established and emerging artists and develops a trusted platform to share knowledge through education and research.

Editorial Contacts: Sybella Chow
TEL: 86 10 8610 8308
FAX: 86 10 8459 9717
sybella.chow@ucca.org.cn

Opening 17 November 2010

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Hours:Tuesday - Sunday 10-19

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