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It Might Also Be – Colin Siyuan Chinnery’s Solo Exhibition

Art-Ba-BaMobile Space is pleased to announce the upcoming solo show of Beijing based artist ColinSiyuan Chinnery It Might Also Be,curated by Wang Jianwei.

It Might Also Be is one integrated project taking place acrosstwo different venues in Shanghai, opening at Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space on 4September, and at AIKE-DELLARCOin M50 Gallery District on 5 September.

Thisexhibition project has one core factor uniting both venues; Chinnery hascollected “failed paintings” by well-known artists in Beijing and Shanghai, andhas used them as the material for his work. These failed paintings are worksthat artists are not satisfied with and were never intended to be shown, butinstead represent the intense struggle between each artist and the canvas infront of them. It is this struggle that Chinnery is exploring in this project,using distinct concepts of articulation for each venue.

For hisshow at Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space, Chinnery has perverted the concept behind thelegendary “Salon des Refusés”exhibition of 1863 in Paris, where the works of artists such as Édouard Manetwho were rejected by the official Paris Salon were exhibited to critical scorn.In contrast, the works to be shown here have been rejected by the artiststhemselves, and have been selected by the “curator” for a special exhibition.However, this is not an exhibition but an artwork, and consequently theserejected paintings are not artworks but readymade objects to be used in aninstallation. Chinnery is creating a subtle distinction between artwork andexhibition related to his own double identity as artist and curator.

AtAIKE-DELLARCO, Chinnery is using the physical properties of each failedpainting to create new hybrid objects. Paintings are cut up, leaving only thecanvas covering the stretcher frame underneath, transforming thesetwo-dimensional images into physical structures. The cut out canvas fragmentshave been combined with waste materials collected from artists’ studio floors,playing with the images on the original canvases to make new narratives. Theformal rigour of this show deliberately erases the traces of the originalartists in order to find Chinnery’s own visual ideas. In contrast to the showat Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space, the commercial framework of the gallery confirms theidentity of the artist and artworks.

ColinSiyuan Chinnery is an artist and curator based in Beijing. He was Director in2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and before that he wasChief Curator / Deputy Director at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art(UCCA) in Beijing. As an artist, Chinnery co-founded the Complete ArtExperience Project (2005-6), an artists’ collective whose works were presentedin several important exhibitions in China and United States, including the 2005Guangzhou Triennial. This fall, apart from this “It Might Also Be”, Chinnery’swork shall also be on view at ShanghART’s show EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia, and the 4^th edition ofGuangzhou Triennale.

Curated by: Wang Jianwei

Opening time: September 4^th, 2012, Tuesday,16:00

Exhibition dates: September 5^th toOctober 7^th, 2012, 11:00-16:00

Venue: Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space

Temporary address:1/F, Bldg 10, 18 Wuwei Road, 200331 Shanghai （Zhang Ding's studio)

T: +86 21 62504569 | E-mail:info.art.ba.ba@gmail.com | www.art-ba-ba.com

Opening time: September 5^th, 2012, Wednesday,17:00-20:00

Exhibition dates: September 6^th toOctober 15^th, 2012

Venue: AIKE-DELLARCO main space | 2F, Bldg 1, 50Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

T: 021 5252 7164| E-mail: shanghai@aikedellarco.com |www.dearco.it