Pierre Huber Creation Prize 2008
An Xiaotong: Where and When
For the second edition of Curated by… UCCA is pleased to present Where and When an exhibition by An Xiaotong. "Supporting young artists is at the core of UCCA's mission and Curated by… gives young or emerging talents a first opportunity to showcase their work to a greater number of people", states Jerome Sans, UCCA Director.
The work of An Xiaotong builds on a symptomatic phenomenon of our time: people's connections on the internet.
New communicating mechanisms and concepts are replacing traditional means of communication; Simplicity of communication has on the one hand brought people closer together while simultaneously creating new distances. Life evolves between the virtual and the real worlds, with the former gradually replacing the latter and the concept of communication redefined by space and time.
Using images gleaned over the net: from web sites, blogs and chat rooms, An Xiaotong sets them free from the limitation of their formats and makes them her own. By enlarging these small pictures and by employing painting, the artist goes against the multiplication of images in our society and produces a unique work. An Xiaotong thereby immortalizes and exhibits people, whose status goes from being an anonymous lost into the pool of images available on the net to a celebrity that everyone in our star-obsessed society aspires to become.
Conceived as a single body of work, Where and When is exhibited in both "White Cube and Black box" and presents itself as a 360 degrees space crafted as a computer matrix where An Xiaotong has strategically placed her portraits of individuals.
An Xiaotong was born in Xian in 1971 and has been working as an independent artist and curator since the early 1990's, participating in collective exhibitions abroad, especially with gallery Anne de Villepoix (Pulse, New York) in 2006 and in 2005 (FIAC, Paris; Art Basel Miami 2006) and in China, noticeably with Floating city, The first Biennial of Moca Shanghai in 2006. An Xiaotong has also had a series of solo shows including Spreading at the Biennal of Busan and Virus 2006 with Miss China in Paris in 2006. Where and When at UCCA is the first solo show of the artist in Beijing since Limits of Visions at the Galerie Passage in 2000. An Xiaotong has lived in France since 2002.
An Xiaotong
Artiste et Curator
Née à Xi'an (Chine), 1971
Vit et travaille à Alfortville depuis 2002
1993-2002: Professeur à L'Institut des enseignants de Qingdao
1998: Professeur à L'Institut Culturel de Pékin
1999: Professeur à L'Académie des Arts de Pékin
Expositions personnelles (sélection)
2007: Absolute Images, Assurances & Conseils Saint-Honoré, Paris
2006: Virus 2006, Miss China, Paris
2005: Bingbing, Lunch Box, Miss China, Paris
2004: Nuage, Atelier de stylisme Jean-Michel Dans, Paris
2000: Limits of Visions, Galerie Passage, Pékin
Expositions Collectives (sélection)
2007: Galerie Anne de Villepoix (la foire Pulse de New York).
2006: Galerie Anne de Villepoix (FIAC, Paris; Art Basel Miami).
2006: Spreading, The Biennal of Busan, Busan
2006: Floating city, The first biennal of Moca Shanghai, Shanghai
2006: Family, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France
2006: Grand Paysage, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis
2005: Multipliée, Galerie Quang, Paris
2004: La ville en d'habit rouge, (commissaire d'exposition), Jinan, Shandong
2004: Gong Fu Art A3, Place Saint-Sculpice, Paris
2004: Limites visuelles la bibliothèque espace Landowski, Boulogne Billancourt
2001: The Skin Galerie Sunlight Salon, Pékin
2000: Limits Of Vision Galerie Passage, Pékin
1999: Dream-Butterfly, Galerie Contemporaine, Pékin
1999: Dream-Butterfly, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chine Arts, Pékin
1998: Dream-Butterfly Art Museum of China, Pékin
1997: Afternoon-Tea, Mirage Prédestine Affinitaire Art Museum, Pékin
1997: Afternoon-Tea, Art Museum of China, Pékin
1996: Birds and Flowers Art Museum of Singapore
1996: Birds and Flowers Art Museum of Seoul
1995: The Summer No Wind, Art Museum, Shandong
1994: Sky, Art Museum of Shandong Province, Shandong
1993: This Kind of Scenery, Art Galerie, Shangdong Province, Shandong
1991: Hurricane The Grand Human Galerie, Toronto
1990: Football Dream, Shandong Stadium, Shandong
1990: Soft Wind, Shandong Stadium, Shandong
For the second edition of Curated by… UCCA is pleased to present Where and When an exhibition by An Xiaotong. "Supporting young artists is at the core of UCCA's mission and Curated by… gives young or emerging talents a first opportunity to showcase their work to a greater number of people", states Jerome Sans, UCCA Director.
The work of An Xiaotong builds on a symptomatic phenomenon of our time: people's connections on the internet.
New communicating mechanisms and concepts are replacing traditional means of communication; Simplicity of communication has on the one hand brought people closer together while simultaneously creating new distances. Life evolves between the virtual and the real worlds, with the former gradually replacing the latter and the concept of communication redefined by space and time.
Using images gleaned over the net: from web sites, blogs and chat rooms, An Xiaotong sets them free from the limitation of their formats and makes them her own. By enlarging these small pictures and by employing painting, the artist goes against the multiplication of images in our society and produces a unique work. An Xiaotong thereby immortalizes and exhibits people, whose status goes from being an anonymous lost into the pool of images available on the net to a celebrity that everyone in our star-obsessed society aspires to become.
Conceived as a single body of work, Where and When is exhibited in both "White Cube and Black box" and presents itself as a 360 degrees space crafted as a computer matrix where An Xiaotong has strategically placed her portraits of individuals.
An Xiaotong was born in Xian in 1971 and has been working as an independent artist and curator since the early 1990's, participating in collective exhibitions abroad, especially with gallery Anne de Villepoix (Pulse, New York) in 2006 and in 2005 (FIAC, Paris; Art Basel Miami 2006) and in China, noticeably with Floating city, The first Biennial of Moca Shanghai in 2006. An Xiaotong has also had a series of solo shows including Spreading at the Biennal of Busan and Virus 2006 with Miss China in Paris in 2006. Where and When at UCCA is the first solo show of the artist in Beijing since Limits of Visions at the Galerie Passage in 2000. An Xiaotong has lived in France since 2002.
An Xiaotong
Artiste et Curator
Née à Xi'an (Chine), 1971
Vit et travaille à Alfortville depuis 2002
1993-2002: Professeur à L'Institut des enseignants de Qingdao
1998: Professeur à L'Institut Culturel de Pékin
1999: Professeur à L'Académie des Arts de Pékin
Expositions personnelles (sélection)
2007: Absolute Images, Assurances & Conseils Saint-Honoré, Paris
2006: Virus 2006, Miss China, Paris
2005: Bingbing, Lunch Box, Miss China, Paris
2004: Nuage, Atelier de stylisme Jean-Michel Dans, Paris
2000: Limits of Visions, Galerie Passage, Pékin
Expositions Collectives (sélection)
2007: Galerie Anne de Villepoix (la foire Pulse de New York).
2006: Galerie Anne de Villepoix (FIAC, Paris; Art Basel Miami).
2006: Spreading, The Biennal of Busan, Busan
2006: Floating city, The first biennal of Moca Shanghai, Shanghai
2006: Family, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France
2006: Grand Paysage, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis
2005: Multipliée, Galerie Quang, Paris
2004: La ville en d'habit rouge, (commissaire d'exposition), Jinan, Shandong
2004: Gong Fu Art A3, Place Saint-Sculpice, Paris
2004: Limites visuelles la bibliothèque espace Landowski, Boulogne Billancourt
2001: The Skin Galerie Sunlight Salon, Pékin
2000: Limits Of Vision Galerie Passage, Pékin
1999: Dream-Butterfly, Galerie Contemporaine, Pékin
1999: Dream-Butterfly, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chine Arts, Pékin
1998: Dream-Butterfly Art Museum of China, Pékin
1997: Afternoon-Tea, Mirage Prédestine Affinitaire Art Museum, Pékin
1997: Afternoon-Tea, Art Museum of China, Pékin
1996: Birds and Flowers Art Museum of Singapore
1996: Birds and Flowers Art Museum of Seoul
1995: The Summer No Wind, Art Museum, Shandong
1994: Sky, Art Museum of Shandong Province, Shandong
1993: This Kind of Scenery, Art Galerie, Shangdong Province, Shandong
1991: Hurricane The Grand Human Galerie, Toronto
1990: Football Dream, Shandong Stadium, Shandong
1990: Soft Wind, Shandong Stadium, Shandong
