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21/10/2005

Fen-Ma Liming

Aura Gallery, Shanghai

Ma Liuming performance chosen images

Topos, dissimilated as a result of the presence of Fen-Ma Liming, was no longer the surrealistic, out of ordinary phenomenon that resulted from the contradiction of a man’s body with a woman’s face.

Since 1997, Ma has achieved the out-of-ordinary by dismantling and extinguishing, of diffusing, the ego through his inconceivable “GENEROSITY”. With the sleeping Ma as a catalyst, the recipients, the members of the audience, produce an artistic act. By losing consciousness, Ma discards the fact that he is the subject of their criticism. This is a shift from a political body to a body that becomes a medium and then, transparent. Ti is a shift to become a body of resistance by resisting power and authority as a genuine avant-garde artist, and then sublating a modernism rooted in individualism and placing it in the danger of destruction. Arguably, it is the purity of Ma’s sensibility as he reacts to the world, and his paintings, which form the foundation that enables Ma’s body to have such a presence.

Paintings featuring Fen-Ma Liuming’s face combined with the body of a baby have been painted as though they were being separated from this world. However, each painting is distinct from each other and continue to be produced in large numbers, almost as though they were Ma’s alger egos, representations of his other self. The phenomenon of Ma’s paintings could also be described as acts of self-proliferation.

The arrival of the avant-garde in China was delayed. As in the example of the avant-garde throughout history in other countries, the method that was devised with anti-art as the intention ended up being incorporated into the artistic (system-based) goal. Ma had no need to advocate anti-art. From the beginning, as a result of his “experiences”, Ma was able to discover art during the process of everyday life, He didn’t attempt to reclaim art back into his life, but naturally “attempted to construct, from art, a new way of living life”.

Ma’s artistic body that has developed over the last 10 years, shaking boundaries through non-differentiation, is now about to enter a new stage.

Yoko Hasegawa - Curator and Art Critic

Opening: 6:00pm-9:00pm 22 oct.2005

Aura Gallery
5/f 713 dongdaming lu - Shanghai

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