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Art News:
Please join us for the:
OPENING
This Thursday, October 29, 6 - 9 PM
On Love? On War?
Prominent
Contemporary
Chinese Artists
October 21-November 14, 2009
FAN Xiaoyan 范晓妍 REN
Zhenyu 任震宇 FANG Lijun 方力钧
SU Xinping 苏新平 FENG
Zhengjie 俸正杰 WEI Dong 魏东
GUO Wei 郭伟 YANG
Shaobin 杨少斌 LING
Jian
凌健
ZHANG Huan 张洹 LIU
Jianhua 刘建华
ZHANG Xiaotao 张小涛 QU Guangci 瞿广慈
ZHONG Biao 钟飙
Ling Jian, Angel No. 2, 2009, oil on canvas, 98 x 71 inches
STUX Gallery, in collaboration with Carrie Clyne, is pleased to announce the opening of On Love? On
War? : Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists. Stux Gallery is presenting this exhibition as part of the art program
China in Chelsea hosted by
the Carnegie Hall in New York for the upcoming event " A Festival
Celebrating Chinese Culture"(October
21st - November 10th) with an aim to enhance the
visibility and accessibility of Chinese culture including contemporary art,
theatre and music in New York.
Featuring the work of Fan Xiaoyan, Fang Lijun, Feng Zhengjie,
Guo Wei, Ling
Jian, Liu Jianhua, Qu Guangci, Ren Zhenyu, Su Xinping, Wei Dong, Yang Shaobin,
Zhang Huan, Zhang Xiaotao, and
Zhong Biao, the exhibition highlights recent yet historic painting,
photography and sculpture.
On Love? On War? brings together the work of fourteen contemporary Chinese artists who
use representational imagery to explore seemingly contradictory states of
existence. China has gone through
enormous changes over the past quarter century, and its art has moved at warp
speed to remain one critical step ahead of the cultural, political and economic
developments that are shaping the country at the turn of the 21st century. An
upshot of art's rapid evolution during this aesthetic and intellectual
renaissance is the predominance of binary themes that represent how artists are
conceptualizing a quickly shifting contemporary life.
East and West, man and woman, tradition and technology,
growth and decay, love and war: these are some of the dualities inherent in the
artworks in 'On Love? On War?' They are not opposites in opposition, rather
they reflect how artists in China have become adept at combining what were
previously considered interchangeable states. The artists in this exhibition create
narratives that convey the individual's odyssey of both creation (love) and
destruction (war). 'On Love? On War?' proposes this twofold identity is not
only a symptom of society in rapid flux, but also represents a state of poise
and unity.
For further information,
please contact Andrea Schnabl at Andrea@stuxgallery.com
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