Feng Mengbo
dal 23/1/2003 al 25/2/2003
Segnalato da
23/1/2003
Feng Mengbo
ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Q4U - the two dimensional works. In 2001/02 Feng Mengbo changed the popular Internet game 'Quake 3' to create his own computer game 'Q4U'. The new game is featuring a 3-D likeness of Feng Mengbo holding a video camera in one hand and a plasma riffle in the other. The story is the same as in the original Quake 3: simply kill or be killed.
Q4U - The 2-dimensional Works
ShanghART is pleased to present Feng Mengbo, one of China's leading new media
artists, in his first solo exhibition in China.
Since the early 1990's Feng Mengbo has worked at the intersection between
painting and digital medium. His interactive digital works 'My Private Album'
(1996)'Taking Mr. Doom by Strategy' (1997), 'Q3'(1993) are part of the
history of new media art in China and have been shown widely in China and
internationally.
In 2001/02 Feng Mengbo changed the popular Internet game 'Quake 3' to create
his own computer game 'Q4U'. The new game is featuring a 3-D likeness of Feng
Mengbo holding a video camera in one hand and a plasma riffle in the other. The
story is the same as in the original Quake 3: simply kill or be killed.
Q4U was shown with great success at the 11th Documenta in Kassel and, in an
other version, recently at the Guangzhou Triennial in Southern China.
In his solo exhibition at ShanghART Feng Mengbo shows 2-dimensional works,
including paintings and photos, of scenes from Q4U.
Feng Mengbo,born 1966, was initially trained as a printmaker at the Central
Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He began making digitally-based work in the
early 1990's. Feng Mengbo has participated twice at the Dokumenta Kassel and
hold solo exhibitions at Holly Solomon Gallery, NY; Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee;
DIA Center for the Art, NY; Renaissance Society,Chicago etc.
The ShanghART exhibition marks the first time that Feng Mengbo shows his 2
dimensional works related to Q4U and it is Feng Mengbo's first solo exhibition
in Shanghai (and in China).
Opening: Friday 24.January 2003, 6-8pm
Exhibition time: January 25 - Febuary 25, 2003, daily 10 am - 7 pm
Feng Mengbo, Q4U-200201.TGA, acrylic on canvas, 200x150cm, 2002 (studio shot)
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- at ShanghART Mogan Shan Rd. Warehouse:
The 26 Evil Spirit Passes, installation by Wei Guangqing
Exhibition time: till Febuary 25, 2003
(by appointment only, to visit please call: 6359 3923)
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Exhibition in March
Zeng Fanzhi: Our Generation, March 5-15, Shanghai Art Museum (No. 325 Nanjin Xi
Road)
For futher infos please contact ShanghART at:
Tel:(86) 21- 6359 3923 or 5382 0418
Fax:(86) 21- 63594570
ShanghART gallery (at Park 97),
2a Galoan Rd. 200020 Shanghai, China
tel 86 21 6359 3923
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