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13/3/2009

Two Exhibitions

Platform China, Beijing

Look Deeper
2009.03.14 - 2009.05.17
Artists: Chen Yujun / Chen Yufan, Gu Jing, Guo Ling, Jin Shi, Liang Bing, Luo Haiming, Ma Xiaoxiao, Qiu Shiming, Tao Damin, Wu Guangyu, Zheng Qiang
Curators: Chen Haitao, Deng Dafei
Opening Reception: March 14th, 2009, 3pm
Venue：Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Dashanzi P.O.Box 71, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015, P.R. China 100015 Beijing, China


Platform China is pleased to present its first exhibition in 2009 on March 14th-Look Deeper，an group exhibition with 12 young artists. These artists are some young people that attempt to explore deeply their artistic creation and self-seeking of their hearts obscurely, in good times or bad.

As the world-wide economic crisis closely around us and affect our ways of life in stages, we can all experience that in the great context of globalization, those problems which seem local or partial, in fact, do not exist in isolation. Facing with the creation of various new ideas, people naturaly benefited from multiple value standards and the feeling of identity. Kinds of thought’s own logics contain corresponding values, easily making people into a virtual sense of security.

These participating young artists avoided the public-oriented and cynical attitude. In general, they do not agree with the superficial cultural patterns that emphasize pleasure, which are popularly used among the currently art world in China. From the methodology level, they emphasized more on the the complex experience of survival; From the content, most of them insisted on a “deeper” exploration and effort of their own artistic creation. This appeared on the selective use of variety historical resources or the reseach on the relationship of individual and its life… From the appearance of the works, they used plain and unvarnished languange instead of eccentric tactics and mathods to question their position and the relationship with the backgroud which they are within. At the face of pluralistic values, they considered the depth as their proving mode.

When the newfangled ways which seem shocking at first but finally tire the audience, we will of cause calm down to think about what other possibilities are. Should we really make a visual spectacle to meet the more and more critical standards? Or should we go back to the original point to re-consider the relationship between art and life itself.

The title of this exhibition points the academic direction and temperament that the curators hope to achieve. We’d like to stimulate more thoughts of the contemporary art in China from others.

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Huang Liang
Settle the Life
2009.03.14 - 2009.04.19
Opening Reception: March 14th, 2009, 3pm
Venue: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute Project Space
Address: 319-1 Caochangdi Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing

This is the first art project in 2009 after Platform China Project Space moved to Caochangdi from 798 Art District. The young artist Huang Liang, who from northeast China, will show his solo project called Settle the Life, which is about his feelings to the diseases and life. The exhibition contains two themes - Helpless of Fear and Phanerosis.

Huang Liang once suffered from the great psychological pressure of death. Sevaral years ago when he just stepped into the art college, he was misdiagnosed as advanced cancer. The shadow of death surrounded him nearly in two years. Helpless of Fear series represents the inner feelings of those inpatient friends he was in hospital with. When they have to face the advanced cancer, there were fears and sympathy within, as well as semi-avoidance to the harm that cannot be escaped from. Furtherly it’s a great harm to the heart. The Phanerosis series wants to talk about that the X-ray or other medical inspection doesn’t make the patients clearer but more confused, just like a unfolded tekstboek, without removing the pain but force the patients to suffer the cancer repeatedly.

Nowadays, though Huang Liang has shaken off the shackles of death to be a health person and a pillar of the society, but in this fast developing society which fills with lots of opportunities, most of time he was fearful and revolted. Advances on technology and socialty enable everyone to be a distributors of information; Technology is an amplifier at the same time, it transmits all kinds of informations without hesitation to people quickly, also making them confused. The artist hope what he saw, smelled and thought could be unified with the concept that what the intimate feeling is. Art is a transfer manner about self-concern, the friction between individual life and the whole socialty makes the artist to think constantly: Does these informations really complete our lives? How people perceived the end of life in the past? What is the interference to modern people's sudden death?
Life is beautiful, so the most important thing is to cherish life. To experience pain is to feel happiness. -- Huang Liang

Image: Huang Liang

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