Exhibition Period
29th June 2024 – 8th August 2024
Venue
SGA Three on the Bund, 3F, No.3 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai
Artists
Yu Youhan, Kishio Suga, He Saibang, Feng Lianghong, Huang Yuanqing, Zhang Enli, Han Feng, Tu Hongtao, Liao Guohe, Qiu Ja, Liu Yi, Zhong Yunshu
Curator
Wang Yu, Zheng Gang
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This June, Space and Gallery Association Shanghai is pleased to present Getting Along with It –– a group exhibition that brings together twelve Chinese contemporary artists Yu Youhan, Kishio Suga, He Saibang, Huang Yuanqing, Feng Lianghong, Zhang Enli, Han Feng, Tu Hongtao, Qiu Ja, Liu Yi and Zhong Yunshu. The exhibition is on view from 29th June until 8th August 2024.
The process of painting itself is an eternal process of removing the old from the new: the expression of individuality dominated by the artist's own unique feelings, tendencies and choices; not following the sequential direction of the so-called conceptual genres and the old and new misconceptions; transcending the purely visual way of observation, and focusing on the improvisation and directness of the painting process, the simplicity of the use of color, the sense of looseness, the unfamiliar, unconventional, non-descriptive painting propositions and creative innovations.
The exhibition focuses on the issues of "Independence and Self-Awareness in Painting" and "Interrelationship between Space, Painting and Installation”.The curatorial aim of the group exhibition is to explore new perspectives and methods of mindfulness, in order to update the overall judgment and value orientation towards the noisy and disturbing external world. At the same time, information needs to be filtered and considered by individuals: fragmentation, resetting, wrapping, restoration, matching light and dark, and making the best use of daily waste....Whether obvious or hidden, we encourage the viewer to think deeply and look freshly at the everyday world around them, to create order out of chaos, to discover the essence of things, the critical relationships between objects, the relationship between objects and space, etc.
“The mountain spring surrounds the house, knowing the depth.” For the shielding of the artist's own differences, the strengthening of the artist's commodity attributes, the smoothness of the highly programmed picture and the charm of pleasing, it is necessary to carefully keep a distance from it; to see the unseen, the seemingly immature, but refreshingly childish interest, on the contrary, it is possible to draw sufficient sustenance from it; We realize that the experimental material process is sometimes even more important than the conceptual composition, where the concept is interpretable as a variable and the material itself reflects the truth. The higher stages of installation art almost always contain infinite meanings in their simplicity, and strive to recover the vitality of the simple sensual nature that is being lost.
Existance and non-existance lies upon each other, things that are chiaroscuro are often subtle.As quiet and natural as the water flow, the style of the appearance is pure and refined, complementing both the content and the realm, as well as the spirit and the aesthetics. As Deleuze said, "Time is the prolongation of consciousness", we expect that the explorations of the twelve participating artists in this group exhibition, including Yu Youhan, Kishio Suga, He SaiPang, Feng Lianghong, Huang Yuanqing, Zhang Enli, Tu Hongtao, and Liao Guohe, will lead to intriguing contemplations, and will bring about real and lasting fulfillment and far-reaching significance.
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About the Artists
Yu Youhan（1943, Shanghai, China)
He graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design in 1973 and taught at the Shanghai Arts and Crafts School from 1973 to 2003. His works integrate traditional Eastern visual symbols with the expressive methods of Western modern art, making him a representative artist in abstract art and political pop art within the avant-garde art movement in China at the end of the 20th century.
Kishio Suga (1944, Japan)
Born in 1944 in Japan, he graduated from the Painting Department of Tama Art University in 1968. As a representative figure of the Mono-ha movement, Kishio Suga creates large-scale installations that explore the relationships between materials and materials, as well as materials and space, emphasizing the inherent properties of the materials themselves.
He Saibang (1959, Shanghai, China)
Born in Shanghai in 1959, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal University in 1986 and has been teaching at Huashan Art School since then. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.
Feng Lianghong (1962, Shanghai, China)
He graduated from the Shanghai Arts and Crafts School and the Central Academy of Arts and Design. He began practicing abstract art in Shanghai in the early 1980s. He currently lives and works in Beijing.
Huang Yuanqing (1963, Shanghai, China)
He graduated from Shanghai University of Science and Technology in 1985 with a degree in Microwave Theory. From 1987 to 1989, he studied in the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal University. He is currently teaching at the School of Film and Television at Shanghai University.
Zhang Enli (1965, Jilin, China)
Zhang Enli's work has consistently focused on depicting ordinary objects and traces of daily life activities. His painting installations creatively place viewers in a dual void of time and space narrative by integrating the environment, history, and personal experience. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.
Han Feng (1972, China)
His work often draws inspiration from everyday objects, exploring the abstracted structures of these objects on canvas or transforming his understanding of these structures into installation pieces. This approach reflects the continuously evolving traditional and natural phenomena.
Tu Hongtao (1976, Sichuan, China)
He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 2008, Tu Hongtao moved to a studio in the suburbs of Chengdu, where he studied the tradition of Chinese literati landscape painting and the theory of the common origin of painting and calligraphy by Yuan dynasty artist Zhao Mengfu. As a result, his paintings shifted from mimetic depiction to realms of illusion and psychological suggestion.
Liao Guohe (1977, Kolkata, India)
Born in Kolkata, India in 1977, he completed his studies in Mechanical Drafting at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001. He currently lives and works in Changsha and Beijing. His works seem to break the rules of ideological games, choosing to believe in the autonomy of images—the truth of painting gently stirs an emotional response in the viewer.
Qiu Ja (1977, Shanghai, China)
He obtained a master's degree from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University in 2004 and currently lives and works in Shanghai. He uses found objects, cement, and other media to explore fundamental questions about sculpture and the most evident ways objects are created.
Liu Yi (1990, Zhejiang, China)
She graduated with a master's degree from the China Academy of Art in 2016 and currently lives in Hangzhou. Her primary research focus is on "Early Chinese Art Films and Experimental Animation". Through animation, multimedia, and spatial installations, she reflects her life experiences and explores more possibilities within the exhibition space.
Zhong Yunshu (1990, Hubei, China)
Her work focuses on moments within the flow of daily life that can be used to resist and question. In her material sculptures, there are no precise boundaries. They are dispersed yet interdependent. She excels at linking, arranging, combining, or constructing multiple associations of different objects and words in her practice, skillfully placing the contradictions hidden within the organic elements of life.
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