展览主题：契丹人：赵刚个展

              The Khitans: Zhao Gang Solo Exhibition

展览时间：2013年11月1日（星期五）   3:00pm

画廊名称：站台中国当代艺术机构    Platform China Contemporary Art Institute

画廊地址：中国北京朝阳区草场地319-1号    319-1 Caochangdi Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing

画廊电话：+86 10 6432 0091

站台中国（北京）将呈献“契丹人：赵刚个展”，将展出艺术家赵刚近期的作品。

赵刚是生活在北京的满族人，性格反叛乖张，二十世纪七十年代末曾参加著名的“星星美展”，后留学荷兰并旅居美国。这段经历使他和他的艺术受到不同意识形态和中西方不同文化传统的影响。

作为当代艺术家，赵刚虚拟了一个历史上存在但如今已经消亡的契丹人身份，并置身于虚拟的时代进行创作。他通过当代绘画的形与色直接而暴力地构建个人的文化史通道以反观当代的文化生态。赵刚以绘画的方式形成对新生事物力量根源的个人探索：文化在遭受外部力量入侵，在遭受破坏与融合之后的发展脉络和生长方式。他借助于契丹人的虚拟身份对当代绘画的本体问题进行探索，并希望形成新的可能性。

“契丹人：赵刚个展”将于2013年11月1日（星期五）15：00在站台中国当代艺术机构（北京）开幕。

Platform China (Beijing) presents”The Khitans: Zhao Gang Solo Exhibition”, which will display a selection of Zhao Gang’s most recentworks.

Zhao Gang is an artist ofManchurian decent, living and working in Beijing. He has a peevish and rebellious streak character. He had previously participated in the famous "The Stars Group Exhibition” inlate 1970s; and thereafter, studied in the Netherlandsbefore moving to the U.S.These experiences have shaped him as a artist and being exposed to both Eastern and Western culturalbackgrounds and different ideologies heavily influenced his art.

In his contemporary art practice, Zhao Gang uses the historical figure of the Khitans, whose history dates back to the 4th century, when they dominated much of Mongolia and modern Manchuria. By the 10th century, however, their reign eventually collapsed. Zhao Gang has created anidentity for the Khitan People whose virtual presence in history was once significant, but is nowdefunct.He appropriates it to himself, by placing himself into this virtual era for painting.

Through the shapes and colors of contemporary painting, Zhao Gang directs and violently builds a personal cultural history, through which he contrasts and compares our contemporary cultural ecology. Using painting as a medium, Zhao Gang embarks on a personal exploration of the source of power for new things: the subsequent context for and the pattern of growth after a culture suffers external invasion, destruction and integration. He usesthe virtual identity of Khitan People to explore the ontological issues incontemporary painting and seeks out new possibilities.

“The Khitans: Zhao Gang Solo Exhibition" opens at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute (Beijing) on Friday 1st Nov. 2013,15:00.

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