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Indepth Arts News:
"Yang Fudong: The General's Smile"
2009-12-19 until 2010-03-28
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, ,
JP
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Japan by Yang Fudong, a
Chinese film artist who has been highly active on the international scene in recent years. As an artist with a strong
attachment to 35mm film, Yang creates films that are noted for their unique, finely grained textural quality and the
use of highly refined and perfectly composed imagery. His films--at times documentary in tone, at times
theatrical--depict fragments of contemporary Chinese society, transforming at dazzling speed, and the people who
live within it.
This exhibition introduces the magic of Yang Fudong’s world by presenting a number of his
cinematic gems, some being shown in Japan for the first time. These include The General’s Smile (2009), a
large-scale video installation about the universality of human life presented in a scene of a banquet held for a senior
military officer, and Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Part 3 (2005), one part of a series that depict
well-educated, modern-day young urbanites as they reveal their inner thoughts in various situations modeled after
the popular tale of seven famous intellectuals in ancient China who seek refuge from the world in a bamboo forest
where they engage in intellectual discourse.
YANG Fudong
Born in Beijing in 1971 and graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1995, Yang Fudong is
garnering international attention for his photographs and films. He has shown work at numerous international
exhibitions such as the 4th Shanghai Biennale(2002), Documenta 11 (2002), the 50th Venice Biennale(2003)and
the 52nd Venice Biennale(2007). In Japan, his work was featured in the 1st Yokohama Triennale (2001) and the
3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale(2005), as well as in many group exhibitions. He currently resides in Shanghai.
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