What do you really know about yourself?
dal 21/5/2003 al 20/6/2003
Segnalato da
21/5/2003
What do you really know about yourself?
ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Porcelain objects. The exhibition documents Liu Jianhua's development of the last few years up to the most recent plain celadon pieces (installations with this works will be shown in June at the Venice Biennale/China Pavilion and in the Centre Pompidou in Paris).
Porcelain objects by Liu Jianhua
Opening: May 22, 6 - 8 pm if SARS allows
With his colorful porcelain figures of headless and armles woman clad in 'Qipao'
dresses and placed in provacative poses on dinner plates Liu Jianhua establised
himself quickly as a new force in Chinese contempory art.
The exhibition documents Liu Jianhua's development of the last few years up to the most recent plain celadon pieces (installations with this works will be shown in June at the Venice Biennale/China Pavilion and in the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Liu Jianhua about 'Regular Imagination', his most recent works:
"I duplicated things we are familiar with in daily life and produced them in
celadon and white porcelain clay under high temperature. The pieces are what we
know and recall. But after this kind of transformation, also put in a different
situation, different space, different layout they will bring different
inspirations to the audience: happiness, misery, excitement, dreams, secrets,
terrors etc.. What¡¯s more, porcelain has the characteristics of being hard in
surface, but expremly fragile, which means that any pattern or fantasy is
permanent in reality. People will live in a kind of fruitless circumstance and
illusory mood, forever"
ShanghART Gallery - Contemporary Chinese Art since 1996
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