The Blind Men and The Elephant----Yuan Yuan’s solo
The Blind Men and The Elephant
Yuan Yuan’s solo exhibition
Opening: October 19th, 2008, 17:00
Exhibition dates: October 19th to November 23rd, 2008. 10:00 – 18:00, Monday closed.
Venue: Shopping Gallery
1/F, Bldg 8, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 62770903 / Fax: +86 21 62771797
Contact: Wu Yanping shoppinggallery2008@gmail.com
www.shoppinggallery.cn
In his works, Yuan Yuan, born in 1973, graduated from the China Academy of Art, depicts scenes inspired from his own experiences, mixing multiple realities into an overgrown garden of unrelated elements. Layers after layers, details are accumulated, brushstrokes are erased to be replaced by new ones and rubbed into one common and unique surface, blurring beauty, fear, illusion and reality.
Objects and characters: travelers, TV announcers, teachers, drag queens, female po:icemen, murderers, etc., all played by one same actor, are agglutinated into the background, fixed onto a stillness in time.
“The Blind Men and The Elephant” is a story on prejudices, senses’ weaknesses and misunderstandings which result from them. Our vision field, partial, only enables us to have limited understandings of things: an issue faced day after day by the artist.
Shopping gallery will hold Yuan Yuan’s first solo exhibition from October 19th to November 23rd, 2008.
Yuan Yuan’s solo exhibition
Opening: October 19th, 2008, 17:00
Exhibition dates: October 19th to November 23rd, 2008. 10:00 – 18:00, Monday closed.
Venue: Shopping Gallery
1/F, Bldg 8, 50 Moganshan Road, 200060 Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 62770903 / Fax: +86 21 62771797
Contact: Wu Yanping shoppinggallery2008@gmail.com
www.shoppinggallery.cn
In his works, Yuan Yuan, born in 1973, graduated from the China Academy of Art, depicts scenes inspired from his own experiences, mixing multiple realities into an overgrown garden of unrelated elements. Layers after layers, details are accumulated, brushstrokes are erased to be replaced by new ones and rubbed into one common and unique surface, blurring beauty, fear, illusion and reality.
Objects and characters: travelers, TV announcers, teachers, drag queens, female po:icemen, murderers, etc., all played by one same actor, are agglutinated into the background, fixed onto a stillness in time.
“The Blind Men and The Elephant” is a story on prejudices, senses’ weaknesses and misunderstandings which result from them. Our vision field, partial, only enables us to have limited understandings of things: an issue faced day after day by the artist.
Shopping gallery will hold Yuan Yuan’s first solo exhibition from October 19th to November 23rd, 2008.
Wandering scenes
By Fu Xiaodong
Yuan Yuan’s landscapes are wandering scenes with group of people, car concealed under branches, unexpected light, delicate bridge, small piece of great lake stone, or corner sign. It consists in a nature transcending nature, a dense and limited delight, a complicated world imitation, existing for photographic purposes. In the game of “the Blind Men and the Elephant”, playboy bunny, nurse, death, etc. surround a blue elephant toy, as a metaphor of the society, a game between illusion and fantasy. Artifices dissemble the depths of reality, which lost its original nature. This model scene is not destined to cover social reality itself but to imitate it and create an ideal of it, growing in a miniature landscape of a garden. The city resembles an imitation of a virtual landscape. This is a perpetual in-and-out cycle of reciprocal reversion, sheltering, reproduction between fiction and reality, as a paper stuck on the glass door of a bookshelf, a panoramic photograph in flames, a sketch of a gymnastic exercises’ poster, all visual aspects are outlined, reaching the soul, the image attracts people into a certain superficial on-site vision. These common culture scenes, these popular, technical, entertaining methods and this persistent visual attraction attempt to open a fictitious corner of the society. Simultaneously, a special scraping and erasing method resulting into implicit moving brushstrokes, and reminding us of some secret mathematical layouts, lead to a surprising, unfocused and uncertain demolition.
