CLOSET
6solos
30 june–26 august 2012
vernissage: 30 june 2012, saturday, 5 to 9 pm
Li Rui, Christophe Demaitre, Deng Yu, Zane Mellupe, Liu Bolin, Sergey Balovin
On this hot summer day in Shanghai letus return to 621 Changde Road.
ifa gallery presents 6 artists livingin China, 6 solos in the rooms and alcoves of the gallery highlighting eachartist with a unique voice.
Just beyond the wooden door we canglimpse the dark yet colorful work of a young Chinese artist, but first let’sturn to the left, towards the first room of the gallery, the one we could seethrough the large window from the street.
Here we encounter the talented youngexpressionist Li Rui’s latest series of glass artworks displaying his masteryof technique in this medium. These glass containers intensify reflected imagesdepicting the face of the observer, discovered from a new angle. The room ismirrored in a new dimension, obscuring our familiar selves, who we are seeingand what we are seeing.
We must cross this fantastic path, in order to enterthe second room.
Here for the first time we find aBelgian artist, well-known in the Shanghai art scene. When he is not busyworking with photographic emulsions you can often find Christophe Demaitre inhis M50 studio or haunting the old Shanghai bars. His photography andsculptural works depict his impressions of social human development using oldtechniques, imbedded in new technologies. They are all representative of thisself-taught artist who has created his own identity through developing his artand his mind. Presently back in his studio in Brussels, he wished to berepresented through this video speech from a scaffolding.
At the foot of the stairway wenavigate into the magical universe of Deng Yu, spiriting us to another world.This outstanding young artist from Guangzhou, different than others from theSouth China art scene conjures a fantastical world, black but full of colors,intermixing elements of our daily life and that of others from an unknownworld. One could imagine this as an obscured cartoon or video game that theyoung generation of Chinese watches regularly.
Up on the next floor, we meet LiuBolin, a Chinese artist who has become very well-known these past years. Ifagallery has already shown his camouflage series “Hidden in the City” in 2007, aseries now collected internationally. Today, we may discover his “Shadow”series, also a direct result of performance. We see where the artist has been,lying on various ground surfaces after it has rained, because he has sincedisappeared leaving behind only his dry shadow, a fleeting trace of a pastevent. We are also able to leave the traces of a time behind us at theexhibition.
Next we arrive at Zane Mellupe’s room,here in this warm space, the artist exhibits her series on water, revealingherself in a state of undress in an empty bath, which is then filled with waterin the installation piece. She conjures up the memory of a past tense so thatwe may think back with nostalgia or imagination.
As we reach the top floor we meet thework of Sergey Balovin, an artist shown here at ifa gallery for the first time.Sergey is known in Shanghai and Russia for exchanging his portraits forclothing, food, drinks, etc. enabling him to live his life without the need formoney. In this series he painted a landscape a couple of years ago, idiom ofthe representation of modern art in Russia. Recently, he killed and transformedthem, as a plastic surgeon would, by repainting over the artwork and its goldenframe to create a transformed work representing a famous contemporary artpiece. This conceptual work evokes the recent developments between the modernand contemporary art in the art scene and the art market by honoring itspainters.
Here we may enter 6 personal worlds orperhaps experience 6 timeless days provoking us to imagine or discover theworld anew this summer at ifa gallery. Let us keep the 7th and last alcoveempty for resting and reflecting.
more info:
http://www.ifa-gallery.com/exhibitions/closet
contact:
Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff
+86 138 1613 5027
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