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Transmundane
——Yang Qian Solo Exhibition
By the independent curator, Huang Du
Yang Qian has been taking one year for having the very experimental work " Transmundane " Done. " Transmundane" has two manifestations. One is beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular. The other is beyond daily experience. From this point of view, the artist broke the too personal pattern in the past exhibitions, using the more open art concept. He mixed many artistic language from architecture,literature, performance stage, media and sports goods, and other materials as elements for his artwork, that provides more meaningful contents.
As we all know, Yang Qian spent three to four years doing experiments on new painting and installation art, he had a big breakthrough in his art. However, in this exhibition, Yang Qian didn't regardness the technique, but use all the technique serves for abundant concepts. Let the art simply be itself. His art based on artistic imagining, esthetics, and social atmosphere. In this way of thinking, the artist focus on specific issues, analyzing the connection of the daily events. Yang Qian has his own esthetic sense about the society. He doesn't step in the most popular complete abstract art in today's China. Comparing to his past work Shower Room Series, Moveable Painting and Two–Layer Painting, his experimental installation art Shredded Paper of "Nanjing triennium" in 2008 which was a breakthrough of his art. His latest Shower Room Series implicated privacy and obscure world; the later works Moveable Painting and Two–Layer Painting based on the effect by moveable images reflects the problems such as family, life and conflict among countries. Since 2008, he found a special medium, paper turned to shredded paper which was crushed through shredder, it has another visual image with the special concept. He made Renminbi, dollar and Greenspan from shredded paper. On the one hand, he showed his worry and critique about the economic recession leads global economic collapse and social unrest. He made US dollar and Chinese Yuan Renminbi into 1001 nominal value. The expanding value predicts there is a risk of uncertain inflation in the financial system. The number "1001" has two symbolic manifestations. it implicates from zero to infinite; also reflects economic recession pulled the world into the abyss. On the other hand, using shredded paper of financial magazines to consist the legendary Greenspan, it's a sarcasm about the former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
Yang Qian used all the different mediums, because he stood in the position of suspicion and criticism of the media world as the illusion of non-material things. Today, in our life, the media's influence is everywhere - whatever in the political and economic areas, or in the commerce and culture have the inductivity, dominative and controling functions. At this point, he regards the media as a soft and transparent violence; it plays the functions of exhorter, pacificator, control some power. When people live in this kind of soft media, they hardly see thing clearly, and lose their vigilance and judgement. These areYang Qian's critical perspective about the media.
In another installation art The Tower of Babel. Yang Qian's idea came from the Book of Genesis and Bible. He put shredded paper from various books and magazines to consist a abstract imaginary tower. What does The Tower of Babel mean? According to the Book of Genesis. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens, and making a name for themselves. God, seeing what the people were doing, confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. However, the people didn’t yield to the punishment from God, they created their heroic cause…the creation of many languages makes translation necesasy. The people challenged God. They translate all kinds of languages for the people communicating more convenient. Thanks to the translation, each nation has its cultural wealth with its special character, preserving each nation’s culture well. For this reason, the tower of Babel seems to have a natural relation with translation. The translator works to restore communication when God destroyed them, thereby working against God. Later, this great cause attracted the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's concern, he had been thinking about “translation”. He considered when God confounded the people’s languages, turned over the task of the translation to the people. God, at the same time impose and forbids translatinon. Ultimately,the peopl have cultural differences,which lead conflicts.Yang Qian used shredded paper as medium to build a tower of Babel, his aim is using the religious symbol to reflect the disputes of our world, and the world is absurd, the financial empire attempt to build an ideal tower of Babel, but it's a disillusionary tower. From the artist view, the media cooperate with some interest groups weaving a fantasy world. Except the critical thinking about the reality, Yang Qian's concept of the work also implicates the unharmonic relationship between people and creature, in addition people and environment. When the human grasp the beautiful new life, they are losing something as costs. In other words, the people always have the conflict between the ideal and reality.
Yang Qian filled his personal creativity and elements from daily life into his art. He didn't simply bring or copy the original daily forms, but from his deep reflections of daily life. His work gives the viewer a feeling mixing with the familiar and strange; also created sort of aspects showing extraordinary daily life. Let the viewer to imagine, associate and experience something related to society and culture. The concept of the work has different meanings, viewer can interpret freely...
All these are the significances of Yang Qian's work Transmundane.
February 19, 2009
——Yang Qian Solo Exhibition
By the independent curator, Huang Du
Yang Qian has been taking one year for having the very experimental work " Transmundane " Done. " Transmundane" has two manifestations. One is beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular. The other is beyond daily experience. From this point of view, the artist broke the too personal pattern in the past exhibitions, using the more open art concept. He mixed many artistic language from architecture,literature, performance stage, media and sports goods, and other materials as elements for his artwork, that provides more meaningful contents.
As we all know, Yang Qian spent three to four years doing experiments on new painting and installation art, he had a big breakthrough in his art. However, in this exhibition, Yang Qian didn't regardness the technique, but use all the technique serves for abundant concepts. Let the art simply be itself. His art based on artistic imagining, esthetics, and social atmosphere. In this way of thinking, the artist focus on specific issues, analyzing the connection of the daily events. Yang Qian has his own esthetic sense about the society. He doesn't step in the most popular complete abstract art in today's China. Comparing to his past work Shower Room Series, Moveable Painting and Two–Layer Painting, his experimental installation art Shredded Paper of "Nanjing triennium" in 2008 which was a breakthrough of his art. His latest Shower Room Series implicated privacy and obscure world; the later works Moveable Painting and Two–Layer Painting based on the effect by moveable images reflects the problems such as family, life and conflict among countries. Since 2008, he found a special medium, paper turned to shredded paper which was crushed through shredder, it has another visual image with the special concept. He made Renminbi, dollar and Greenspan from shredded paper. On the one hand, he showed his worry and critique about the economic recession leads global economic collapse and social unrest. He made US dollar and Chinese Yuan Renminbi into 1001 nominal value. The expanding value predicts there is a risk of uncertain inflation in the financial system. The number "1001" has two symbolic manifestations. it implicates from zero to infinite; also reflects economic recession pulled the world into the abyss. On the other hand, using shredded paper of financial magazines to consist the legendary Greenspan, it's a sarcasm about the former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
Yang Qian used all the different mediums, because he stood in the position of suspicion and criticism of the media world as the illusion of non-material things. Today, in our life, the media's influence is everywhere - whatever in the political and economic areas, or in the commerce and culture have the inductivity, dominative and controling functions. At this point, he regards the media as a soft and transparent violence; it plays the functions of exhorter, pacificator, control some power. When people live in this kind of soft media, they hardly see thing clearly, and lose their vigilance and judgement. These areYang Qian's critical perspective about the media.
In another installation art The Tower of Babel. Yang Qian's idea came from the Book of Genesis and Bible. He put shredded paper from various books and magazines to consist a abstract imaginary tower. What does The Tower of Babel mean? According to the Book of Genesis. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens, and making a name for themselves. God, seeing what the people were doing, confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. However, the people didn’t yield to the punishment from God, they created their heroic cause…the creation of many languages makes translation necesasy. The people challenged God. They translate all kinds of languages for the people communicating more convenient. Thanks to the translation, each nation has its cultural wealth with its special character, preserving each nation’s culture well. For this reason, the tower of Babel seems to have a natural relation with translation. The translator works to restore communication when God destroyed them, thereby working against God. Later, this great cause attracted the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's concern, he had been thinking about “translation”. He considered when God confounded the people’s languages, turned over the task of the translation to the people. God, at the same time impose and forbids translatinon. Ultimately,the peopl have cultural differences,which lead conflicts.Yang Qian used shredded paper as medium to build a tower of Babel, his aim is using the religious symbol to reflect the disputes of our world, and the world is absurd, the financial empire attempt to build an ideal tower of Babel, but it's a disillusionary tower. From the artist view, the media cooperate with some interest groups weaving a fantasy world. Except the critical thinking about the reality, Yang Qian's concept of the work also implicates the unharmonic relationship between people and creature, in addition people and environment. When the human grasp the beautiful new life, they are losing something as costs. In other words, the people always have the conflict between the ideal and reality.
Yang Qian filled his personal creativity and elements from daily life into his art. He didn't simply bring or copy the original daily forms, but from his deep reflections of daily life. His work gives the viewer a feeling mixing with the familiar and strange; also created sort of aspects showing extraordinary daily life. Let the viewer to imagine, associate and experience something related to society and culture. The concept of the work has different meanings, viewer can interpret freely...
All these are the significances of Yang Qian's work Transmundane.
February 19, 2009
Will Be Continue
the show is great! I'm sure it's one of the best show this year
YANG QIAN
1959 Chengdu, China.
1982 -1984 Instructor at Sichuan Fine Art Institute. Chongqin, China.
1999 -2001 Guest Professor at Sichuan University. Chengdu, China.
Born in Chengdu, China.
Live and Work in Beijing.
EDUCATION
1985 -1988 Master’s Degree of Fine Arts, University of Florida, .
1978 -1982 Bachelor*s Degree of Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, P.R. China, .
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Red Mansion Foundation, Painting After Painting-Yang Qian’s New works, London UK
The Jam Jar, Dual Paintings by Yang Qian, Dubai UAE
2007 Zengdai Museum of Modern Art. Overlaping--New works by Yang Qian, Shanghai
2006 Today Art Museum, Neo-Painting by Yang Qian. Beijing
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Illusion of Reflection—Paintings by Yang Qian. Milan,Italy
Ming Art Gallery, Mirror-Image,New Paintings by Yang Qian. Taiwan
2005 Michael Berger Gallery, New Paintings by Yang Qian Pittsburgh,PA. USA
2003 Ping Yao International Photography Art Festival Ping Yao
2000 Knox Gallery, Qian Yang, New Works , Naples,FL. USA.
1999 Adamar Fine Art, New Paintings by Qian Yang, Miami, FL.USA
1997 Gallery 456, Reflections New York, NY
1994 Suffolk Community College, Qian Yang Paintings & Drawings, Selden, NY.
1993 Jamaica Arts Center, Reality and Illusion, New York, NY.
1992 Hanson Gallery, Recent Paintings by Qian Yang, New York, NY.
1991 808 Penn Gallery, A Dialogue with Time, Pittsburgh, PA.USA
Patricia Judith Gallery, Classical Variations, Boca Raton, FL.USA
1990 Patricia Judith Gallery, Neo-Classical Interpretation, Boca Raton, FL.USA
1989 Patricia Judith Gallery, Recent Paintings by Qian Yang, Boca Raton, FL.USA
1988 University of Florida, Tangible and Intangible, Gainesville, FL.USA
Cornwall Gallery, New Paintings of Qian Yang, New York, NY.
GROUP EXHIBITION
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei “Spectacle-To Each His Own” Tai Wan
2008 Today Art Museum The Love of Art----Collecting Contemporary Art in China beijing
Seville biennale, youniverse, Seville, Spain
Busan Biennale, ”Expenditure”, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan Korea
Nanjing Triennial, Reflexive Asia, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
Poznan Biennale “Mediations”, Poznan , Poland
Singapore Art Museum” Accelerate”---Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Singapore
Found Art Museum, China Fantasy, Beijing
Zengdai Museum in valve project shanghai
Belvue Museum, Today’s China，Brussels, Belgium
National Museum of Indonesia, Sichuan Painters, Jakata Indonesia
National Art Center, Beijing-Athens-Contemporary Art from China, Athens, Greece
Guangdong museum of Art, The Supplemental History, Guangzhou
Triumph Art Space, Wandering Heart, Beijing
Gallery TN, Painting Rebellion, Beijing
Li Space. Grand Opening Show Beijing
Xin Dong Cheng Contemporary Art Center, Let’s Consume Beijing
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM , Thermo cline of Art-New Asian Waves,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Beijing Today Art Museum, Today’s Documents 2007—Energy, Beijing
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Floating-New Generation of Art in China. Seoul
Korea
Guang Dong art Museum, Departure from Southwest-Contemporary Art from Southwest of China, Guangzhou.
PAN-Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, La Cina e’vicina Napoli, Italy
Gui Zhou Biennale, Personal Myth. Guiyang Guizhou
Asia Art Center，The Power of the Universe-An Exhibition of the Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, Beijing
Doosan Art Center, A Truth Beyond the Real, Seoul Korea
Tang Gallery, Breaking Vision-Chinese Contemporay Painting, Bangkok, Thailand
Hong Kong City Hall, What’s Next?-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hong Kong
Osage Contemporary Art Center,Chinese Whispers, Hong Kong
Kwangju City Museum of Art, New Style From Beijing—Chinese Contemporary Art, Kwangju South Korea.
Ming Art Gallery，Seven Plateau-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing
Galeria Louis Serpa, Transition Territories. Lisbon, Portugal
Tang Gallery, From New Figurative to New-Painting. Beijing
2006 6th Shanghai Biennale，Hyper Design , Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai , China
Taibei Art Museum, The Expansion in Realism—Paintings in China since 1978, Taiwan
Zhu Jizhan Art Museum, The group with Oxygen, Shanghai
Art Beijing 2006 Thematic Exhibition, Art Unfobidden, Beijing
Willem Kerseboom Modern & Contemporary Art, A Ticket to Beijing, Amsterdam. The Netherland
Vanessa Art Link, Common-Link, Beijing
First 5x7” Picture Taking Biennale Project, Pingyao
Soka Contemporary Space, Re-excavate the Contemporary Realism, Beijing
He Xiangning Art Museum-Contemporary Art Center,One time consumption, Shenzhen.
Heyri Asia Project, Unclear&Clearence-China Contemporay Art Exhibition, Paju city, Korea
Qingdao Art Museum, Chongqing Chilis-Contemporary Art in Sichuan, Qingdao
Art Basel, Presented by Gallery Hyundai,Seoul Korea
China Art Museum, Cross Culture-Four Artists Show. Beijing
Marella Gallery, Vanity Beauty-Three-Men show Beijing
China Millennium Art Museum, First Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing
2005 Prague Biennale 2; Expanded Painting. Prague, Czech
Seoul Art Center; Grouding Reality- New Artists from China.Seoul,Korea.
Beijing TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Turning Hands With Cloud- Rain. Beijing
Red Mansion Foundation; Good Girls,Bad Girls. London,England
Lianzhou International Photograph Biennale, Lianzhou.China
Chengdu Biennale; Chengdu Museum of Modern Art. Chengdu. China
Red Mansion Foundation; Beijing Story. London, England.
Shenzhen Sculpture Academy; On Going, Shen Zhen.China
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna
China-New Contemporary Painting. Bologna Italy
(Traveled to Palazzo in Poggiale Torino. Italy
Edwin’s Gallery ,Group Show-25th Anniversary. Jakarta Indonesia
Art Now Gallery, Cloud Rain. Beijing
2004 Courtyard Gallery,Posers Beijing
Olympic Art Car Exhibition, Speed, Beijing
Francois Mitterrand Culture Center,Forbiden Senses Perigueux,France
Marella Arte Contemmporanea,New Perspective in Chinese Painting Milan, Italy
FIAC International Art Exposition. Paris
Luis Serpa Gallery,Sublime Audacity-he Stroller Experiences Lisbon Portugal
Beijing Seasons Gallery,Hua Jia Di Beijing
Art Seasons Callery Hua Jia Di Singapore
Courtyard Gallery,Me,Me,Me, Beijing
Beijing Seasons Gallery,China Photographic Painting Beijing
Vanessa Art Gallery,China Avant Garde Jakarta Indonesia
2003 Shanghai Duoland Museum of Modern Art.,Open Sky Shanghai
Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf,Grosse Kunst Ausstellung Dusseldorf Germany
Art Seasons Gallery,Urban Illusion and Perception Singapore
Courtyard Gallery,Summer Invitational Exhibition Beijing
FIAC International Art Exposition, Paris
Galerie Veronique Maxe- Albert Benamou,Femmes de Chine Paris
2002 Nan Jing Art Museum "Day Dream" Nan Jing, China
Ping Yao International Photography Exhibition "Daily Attitude" Ping Yao,China
Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute; Invitational Exhibition for 77and 78 Chongqing
2001 Hong Kong Art Commune "Unusual and Usual" Hong Kong
Shanghai Paragold Int'l Art Center "Chinese Plan: Rotate 360" Shanghai,China
2000 Yuan Gong Museum: Unusual And Usual ,Contemporary Art Exhibition Shanghai, China.
Museum of Modern Art: Door Through the Century; National Art Exhibition Chengdu
1999 Monique Goldstrum Gallery: Surrealism New York, NY.
1998 Center of Contemporary Art: Figurative Art in 90 Houston, TX.
Vanderbuilt Museum: Art at the End of the Century Long Island, NY.
1997 Center For Contemporary Art: New Form ,New Artist Minneapolis, MS.
Walter Wickiser Gallery: Figurative Paintings in New York New York,NY
IDA Gallery/York University: China Turns Ontario,Canada.
1995 University Gallery: Group Show, Gainesville, FL.
1994 Nassau Community College: Figuration, Garden City, NY.
Adamar Fine Arts: The study of The Female Form, Miami, FL.
Graduate Center, City University of New York: New Expression in Asian American Art, New York, NY.
1992 Mexic-Arte China June 4th, 1989 Austin, TX. (Travelling to Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.)
St. John*s University: Spectrum of Modern Chinese Painting, New York, NY.
Graduate Center, City University of New York: Friends of Lin Lin, New York, NY.
1991 University Art Gallery, San Diego State University: Chinese Art Meets West, San Diego, CA.
Founders Gallery, University of San Diego: Second Spring, San Diego, CA.
Sally Hawkings Gallery: The Last Picture Show, New York, NY.
1990 PS1 Museum: China June 4th, New York, NY.
Access Gallery: Gallery Artist Show, New York,NY.
The Clock Tower Gallery: The Public Mirror, New York, NY.
1989 Blum Helman Warehouse: China June 4th, New York, NY.
1987 Sarah Lawrence College: Artists from China-New Expression, Bronxville, NY.
Chinese Institute: Chinese Overseas Artist United Show, Boston, MA.
Harkness House: Contemporary Oil Paintings from the People*s Republic of China, New York, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTION
National Museum of Art, Beijing, China.
K21 Museum for Contemporary Art,Germany
Franck Cohn Museum of Contemporary Art,UK
Guang Dong Art Museum
Beijing Today Art Museum
Shanghai Zheng Da Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
IBM International Corp. New York.
New Era of Networks Corp. Englewood, CO.
Bell Atlantic Corp. Hicksville, NY.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New Hyde Park, NY.
Hang Seng Bank,Hong Kong.
Annie Wong Art Foundation,Hong Kong.
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna,Italy.
Uli Sigg
It's great
