Curator: Li Zhenhua
Duration: September 7th – October 17th, 2010

Location: Shanghai Gallery of Art @ Three on the Bund
Address: No.3 the Bund 3rd Floor 3 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road Shanghai

Through obsessive copying and studying Beijing based artist, Feng Mengbo learned the about the internal spirit of traditional Chinese painting from a very young age. As he grew, his interests veered to the digital world and new media, yet the internal spirit of the ancient art never faded. Over the past two decades as Feng has gained worldwide recognition for merging digital gaming with contemporary art, his interest and dedication to traditional painting persevered.

In his latest exhibition at Shanghai Gallery of Art these two, seemingly opposed, interests and traditions meet. Ancient spiritual values are rendered through a cyber reality constructed of 0’s and 1’s. In his new series of digital paintings idyllic landscapes are inverted by computer interpolation and intertwined with 3D renderings. Titled after the classic Chinese fable, 'Journey to the West' this exhibition will also showcase a newly commissioned work that posits this famous Chinese tale into the context of today's Shanghai via a dazzling, interactive video game.

Feng Mengbo’s quirky digital inventions and experimental modifications of commercial video games have come to inhabit a new media space truly of their own. Feng has extensively used gaming hardware and software for both social commentary as well as the development of performance projects, and even for painting. His work has been shown at top international museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum der Moderne Monchsberg, Austria; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, and the Shanghai Art Museum. Feng is also scheduled to have a solo show at PS1 in New York at the end of this year. Feng's work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and Mr. Uli Sigg, among many others.