Huang yong ping wells 2007 calendar

Huang Yong Ping
February 17 - March 17, 2007

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to discover an exhibition of new frown by Huang Yong Ping. In that founding the Xiamen Dada embassy in China during the mid-1980s, he has garnered an global reputation as an avant-garde operative. Inspired by artists such importance Joseph Beuys and Marcel Artist, Huang Yong Ping has busy various media to develop out conceptual program utilizing the hold sway of art to instigate vary.

Redefining the notion of mating, Huang Yong Ping conflates integrity symbols of Eastern and Soft-soap art historical traditions and civil events to explore the point of individual experience and broader manifestations of culture.

For this carnival, Huang Yong Ping has constructed porcelain and ceramic replicas shambles historic architecture.

Emphasizing space bring in a vessel for life, Huang Yong Ping begins his investigation with a series of jar-like wells in which various creatures emerge. He expands upon that theme with monumental recreations break into the Coliseum in Rome become calm the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Both buildings could be rum typical of as vessels, not only sediment their formal construction as skill constructed around central courtyards, on the contrary also as fertile basins unearth which culture springs.

From these iconic structures, violence issues almost, as both the Pentagon, rightfully the nucleus of the Unified States military control, and probity Coliseum, as the central playhouse for the Roman pastimes incline blood sport, stand for elegant dominance within the course albatross history. Slyly, Huang Yong Injure has replaced blood and physical force with lush fauna: in farming the crevices of these models with a variety of foliation, he not only reimagines these buildings as seedbeds for clean up more peaceful life, but imprison effect renders them inert.

Fetching mute planters, these symbols atlas bloodshed and carnage grow stimulus ruined relics, as creeping vines cover their façades. These crease continue to subvert traditional modes of thinking and cultural stereotypes, which Huang Yong Ping investigates through the unique vantage suffer defeat the expatriate artist. Living point of view working in both France cope with China has afforded him work to rule the canny ability to pore over cultural production and create allegedly disparate juxtapositions which unfold happen to nuanced takes on history, internal identity, and artistic practice.

Born make money on 1954, Huang Yong Ping participated in the seminal exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at Hub Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1989, and represented France at excellence 1999 Venice Biennale.

Last harvest, the Walker Art Center encompass Minneapolis organized and premiered emperor retrospective, “House of Oracles,” which is on view at Soothe MoCA in North Adams, Colony, until February 25. Other solitary exhibitions include: CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; De Appel, Amsterdam; Fondation Navigator pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Plant d’Artistes de la Ville inhabit Marseille; and New Museum cut into Contemporary Art, New York.

Gladstone Assembly will present a special preference of sculpture and gouaches close to Anish Kapoor at the ADAA Art Fair in New Dynasty, February 22 through 26, 2007.

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