From December 12, 2020 to February 28, 2021, EGG Gallery will present the joint exhibition Way Beyond by artists Shijinsong and Fu Xiaotong.
Shi Jinsong was born in Wuhan Hubei Province on 1969. His artistic practices cover sculpture, decoration, painting, presentation, architecture, films, drama experiment, concept design and manufacture of multi-media system. His works start from the anatomy, the awakening and publicity of consciousness to explore the noun meaning of conscious sculpture and verb meaning of consciousness of sculpture. Therefore, each piece of his creation originates from his different angle of stream of consciousness and relates to each other, which subsequently together builds a factor contribution system to the independent personal consciousness.
Shi Jinsong, Pine, Stainless Steel and Other Mixed Materials
Shi Jinsong, A Branch of Pine, Stainless Steel and Other Mixed Materials
Shi Jinsong was invited to many domestic and foreign well-known art pavilions including National Art Museum of China, William Brook Museum, HKW and Centre Pompidou. He has attended Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale Exhibition, Serbia biennale and many other important international exhibitions. His works are collected by M+ Gallery, Groninger Museum, White Rabbit Gallery, Today Art Museum, Yu's Art Museum, LVMH Foundation, United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Foundation, The Crown Prince of Dubai Foundation, Taikoo Hui Group, Audi, Saatchi, SICK and plenty of other museums, institutions and individuals. Shi Jinsong has received numerous prizes and nominations at home and aboard.
Fu Xiaotong, Women，59x19x14cm，2020
Fu Xiaotong, Alien, Wire and Copper, 28x63x23cm, 2020
Born in 1976 in Shanxi, Fu Xiaotong did her BA in Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She worked at the Institute of the Arts, Hebei United University. In 2013, Fu Xiaotong did MA in Fine Arts, Department of Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, she lives in Beijing.
Fu Xiaotong asserts that her use of traditional tools and materials carries with it traces of multiple localized cultural meanings: among them a reverence for nature and signification of the elusiveness and fragility of life traditionally embodied by Xuan paper (as something produced from the transformation of natural resources — appropriated to social / cultural uses — while remaining ‘easily torn apart’). Fu Xiaotong also asserts that the needles used in the making of her work penetrate both sides of the paper ‘over and over, as if casting a spell, indicating the nothingness of images’. No suturing thread is drawn through in the wake of puncturing. Representation is made possible by multiple combinatory absences: repeated punctum delens, if you will. -- Paul Gladston, University of Nottingham with Lynne Howarth-Gladston, independent scholar.
Fu Xiaotong, 54,000 Holes, Hand-made Xuan Paper, 115.5x 65.5cm, 2019
Fu Xiaotong, 89,700 Holes, Hand-made Xuan Paper, 115.5x 65.5cm, 2019
About the Exhibition:
Way Beyond
Exhibition Opening: 3PM-6PM., 12 of December, 2020
Duration: December 12, 2020 to February 28, 2021
Venue: EGG Gallery, No.327 Cao Chang Di, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Edited by CAFA ART INFO
Text and Image courtesy of the organizer.
For more information, please visit: http://www.eggartgallery.org/
