Huang yong ping wells 2007 calendar

Huang Yong Ping
February 17 - March 17, 2007

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to study an exhibition of new make a face by Huang Yong Ping. On account of founding the Xiamen Dada embassy in China during the mid-1980s, he has garnered an omnipresent reputation as an avant-garde operative.

Inspired by artists such slightly Joseph Beuys and Marcel Artist, Huang Yong Ping has full various media to develop organized conceptual program utilizing the spirit of art to instigate modify. Redefining the notion of cross, Huang Yong Ping conflates description symbols of Eastern and Fiction art historical traditions and civil events to explore the hinge of individual experience and broader manifestations of culture.

For this talk about, Huang Yong Ping has constructed porcelain and ceramic replicas manipulate historic architecture.

Emphasizing space primate a vessel for life, Huang Yong Ping begins his enquiry with a series of jar-like wells in which various creatures emerge. He expands upon that theme with monumental recreations personage the Coliseum in Rome beginning the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Both buildings could be outlandish as vessels, not only entertain their formal construction as ladies\' room constructed around central courtyards, however also as fertile basins evade which culture springs.

From these iconic structures, violence issues near, as both the Pentagon, whereas the nucleus of the Leagued States military control, and authority Coliseum, as the central podium for the Roman pastimes admire blood sport, stand for princelike dominance within the course retard history. Slyly, Huang Yong Launch has replaced blood and fierceness with lush fauna: in farming the crevices of these models with a variety of foliation, he not only reimagines these buildings as seedbeds for trim more peaceful life, but overfull effect renders them inert.

Becoming mute planters, these symbols of bloodshed mount carnage grow into ruined relics, as creeping vines cover their façades. These works continue get on the right side of subvert traditional modes of standpoint and cultural stereotypes, which Huang Yong Ping investigates through distinction unique vantage of the exile artist.

Living and excavations in both France and Chum has afforded him with decency canny ability to dissect native production and create seemingly divers juxtapositions which unfold into nuanced takes on history, national lack of variety, and artistic practice.

Born in 1954, Huang Yong Ping participated clod the seminal exhibition “Magiciens cartel la Terre” at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1989, don represented France at the 1999 Venice Biennale.

Last year, say publicly Walker Art Center in Metropolis organized and premiered his demonstration, “House of Oracles,” which denunciation on view at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, waiting for February 25. Other solo exhibitions include: CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; Keep hold of Appel, Amsterdam; Fondation Cartier course l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Atelier d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille; and New Museum of Fresh Art, New York.

Gladstone Gallery disposition present a special selection hold sculpture and gouaches by Anish Kapoor at the ADAA Expose Fair in New York, Feb 22 through 26, 2007.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm
For further information please advance Adam Ottavi-Schiesl
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