From 24 April of 28 June 2014, Yards of the Image of Milan hosts the first Italian Xing Danwen (Xi’An, 1967), authoritative and respected voice of contemporary Chinese. Curated by Silvia Cirelli, The exhibition brings together a selection of the most significant works of this great interpreter, honoring a career that spans over twenty-five years of business.
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Multifaceted artist with a unique and expressive imprint, Xing Danwen over the years has managed to renew itself, exploring a wide variety of stylistic languages ranging from video installation, from photography to performance. His is a narrative that in addition to confirming skill lexical, Mix ingredients in personal testimonies of real, retracing important steps in the history of contemporary Chinese. Xing Danwen appart Alpine, in fact, the generation born in the Sixties, one of the most complex and difficult in today's China, characterized by the famous Cultural Revolution of '66, the, just a few decades later, since the bloody suppression of student demonstrations that culminated in the revolt of the Tian'anmen Square 1989.
In addition to representing a delicate historical transition and especially social, the 80s and 90s marked the birth of the artistic Chinese, a movement that radically transformed the local art scene by bringing Chinese contemporary art to the recognition that he still. And among the major players in the lively ferment of those years, certainly stands Xing Danwen.
The sample milanese, by title UTOPIA, retraces the hallmarks of his vast poetic synthesis that made an artist established for several years both nationally and internationally. His works are, in fact, part of the largest museum collections, come il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, just to name a few. This his first solo Italian offers the opportunity to get to know her artistic, "A private trip but also collective", as she calls it, which tells the contradictions of one of the most complex social realities of today, the Chinese.
Learning sample, the famous series Urban Fiction, a work in progress begun by Xing Danwen in 2004, which investigates the echoes of unbridled urban development in recent years and its implications in the social life of China. Those who at first glance seem idyllic settings fairytale, hide instead contemporary scenarios where it dominates the loneliness, violence, la lussuria. You live in the utopia of a perfection that deceptively tries to conceal a deep sense of isolation.
The artist returns to the capital with the photographic series disconnection, the 2002-2003, made one of the biggest landfills Electronic China, nel Guangdong. At the center there are the tragic consequences of urban development disorganized and unhealthy. The exhibition continues with the video Sleep Walking the 2001 and the triptych Born with Cultural Revolution, the 1995, both inspired by the theme of memory, evocation of cultural identity and changeable weather. Closes the path, the last recent work of Xing Danwen, I can’t feel what I feel, the 2012, a video-documentation, which incorporates a moving performance in which the artist herself is the protagonist of the scene.
Biography
Xing Danwen è nata a Xi’An (China) in 1967, currently lives and works in Beijing. She graduated in 1992 at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing and is specialized in 2001 con un Master alla School of Visual Arts di New York. To his credit has numerous important exhibitions in foreign museums, come il Metropolitan Art Museum di New York, (USA), il Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra (UK), il National Museum of Contemporary Art di Singapore, He Palais Des Beaux-Arts Brussels di (BE), il Museum of Contemporary Art di Chicago (USA), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (FR), il Groninger Museum (NL), that Festival appearances and Biennials, come la Beijing Photo Biennale (2013), the Moscow Biennial (2009), Venice (2006), non Sydney (2004), Tirana (2001), il FOTOFEST di Houston, Texas (2008), il Noorderlicht Photo Festival di Groningen (2005) e la Triennale di Yokohama (2001).
XING DANWEN | Utopia
by Silvia Cirelli
Milan, Yards of Image (Via Atto Vannucci 13)
24 April - 28 June 2014
Free admission
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 15.00 – 19.00; Saturday 11.00 – 19.00; Mondays and public holidays by appointment.
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