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20/6/2012

Two exhibitions

Taikang Space, Beijing

Taikang Space will hold two summer exhibitions on June 21st, 2012: Painting: Jin Shangyi and Zhang Shujian and Gao Weigang: Superstition. The coinstantaneous exhibitions will announce the initiation of two projects: “Painting” and “Light Pavilion”.

Painting: Jin Shangyi and Zhang Shujian

1． Painting Project
“Painting” is the research project of the history and the current status of Chinese modern and contemporary painting launched by Taikang Space. The recognition, exploration and development of a painting language need the historical accumulation of a very long time. Each kind of painting language is inevitably given multiple meanings by different “-ism” in specific time and space. Its core concerns the nature of painting of the art itself. Through examining and arranging of the history of every kind of painting language, Taikang’s “Painting Project” chooses to show the representative works by an old artist and a young artist and studies their different understandings and pursuits for the same painting language, as well as the evolution in the nature of painting embodied by their works.

Jin Shangyi was born in Jiaozuo, Henan Province in 1934. He graduated from the Department of Painting of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1953; after he finished the study in Maksimov’s Oil Painting Training Class, he stayed in the academy and became a teacher. As an artist, the figure painting by Mr. Jin, especially the exploration in portrait painting, deeply influenced the process of Chinese Realistic Painting. As an art educator, since he was transferred to teach in the No.1 Studio of the Department of Oil Painting in 1962 till he was appointed Dean of the department, he has moulded a large number of excellent artists with his colleagues. The teaching revolution and renovation they advocated has become the model of Chinese higher education of art and they have also pushed forward its development.

Zhang Shujian, a young artist who was born in 1987, chose portrait painting as his main creation, just as his predecessor Mr. Jin did. He also graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts. Surprisingly enough, he chose to study in the No.4 Studio, which is known for explorative expressionism. But in the end, he still stuck to the method of Photographic Realism. The artist claimed that he was calmly crazy about the polishing of each step and detail during the process of painting.

Painting: Jin Shangyi and Zhang Shujian is the first exhibition of “Painting Project”. It will present the attention and research on realistic painting by Taikang Space. This exhibition will showcase 11 paintings by Zhang Shujian, as well as some of Mr. Jin’s works/publications and related documents.

Zhang Shujian was born in Hunan Province in 1987 and graduated in the Department of Oil Painting of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. He won several awards in different exhibitions, including the graduation exhibition.

2. Light Pavilion Project
“Light pavilion” is located in the exhibition hall of the second floor of Taikang Space. As a newly-opened-up project space, “Light Pavilion Project” attempts to be the voice of Chinese contemporary artists who maintain the status of making experimental art by supporting their grand but difficult projects and showing their newest practice of creation. The project also has an implied meaning-willing to be examined in the exposure of light and the intricacy of time.

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Gao Weigang: Superstition

Gao Weiigang’s susceptibility for art language is always shown as his application of two cold materials: marble and metal. He extends his catholic tastes to many media capable of carrying his ambiguous and blurry conceptualism, such as painting and installation. In Superstition, the installation with the same name as the exhibition, the artist presents a fake archeological excavation site to display some geometric models that are meant for the basic study of plastic arts. Behind their weird weathering traces and the deliberately-produced color of history, it is impossible not to question the aesthetic standards we have accepted and firmly believed. In two other pictures painted from life, the artist even used an ambiguous white color to mock the difference and trivial details of those rules.

Gao Weigang was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1976. He currently lives in Beijing. In 2011, he won the award “The Future of Art” of Art HK.

3. Balcony Project
Taikang Space will open the outdoor balcony on the third floor for “Balcony Project” in the second half of 2012. In order to satisfy the interests of the artists outside the white cube, Taikang Space is willing to provide space and necessary support for experimental outdoor art projects.

Opening 4 pm. June 21st, 2012

Taikang Space
Red No.1-B2,Caochangdi,Cuigezhuang,Chaoyang District

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