Exhibition Period
27th April 2024 – 27th May 2024
Venue
SGA Three on the Bund, 3F, No.3 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai
Artists
Wang Jieyin, Chen Yiming, Hu Youben, Li Haifeng, Zheng Mengmei, Zhang Keke, Kuai Lianhui, Nan Fang, Sun Wenguan,Yiyi
Curator
Wang Yu,Su Yang
▃
This April, Space and Gallery Association Shanghai is pleased to present Beyond the Boundaries –– a group exhibition that brings together ten Chinese contemporary artists Wang Jieyin, Chen Yiming, Hu Youben, Li Haifeng, Zheng Mengmei,Zhang Keke, Kuai Lianhui, Nan Fang, Sun Wenguan and Yiyi. The exhibition is on view from 27th April until 27th May2024.
Art has never given a clear standard answer, and artists are always chasing the unknown. When the noise around you fades away, are you still the same person, and how do you remain the same person in the midst of constant change? Self-generation is usually a long and lonely journey that rejects all kinds of interference.
We are often amazed by the dynamic creativity of the wise in art history, a sense of excitement that continues throughout their lives as a result of the periodic breaking down of established structures of knowledge and inherent experience.Consensus is precisely shallow, and the artists may have to search for strangeness every day, social, living, historical. Any unchanging concept will be a cocoon, familiar methods are buried in the hills of the past. In that, how can they bear unique fruits? The significance of contemporary art lies in the constant questioning. When we try to explain everything we see with common sense, the conclusions are basically secularized, and the best art is the aesthetics that can step out of the habitual
cognition and possess the genes of futurity.
Lao Tzu said: "Although there is honor and glory, the place of Yan is transcendent. Art is something other than the thing,not the thing itself, and expressing the true feeling of life is its ultimate task. Therefore, art that is true to the heart is able to break through the limitations of time and return to the eternity that transcends space and time. Jin Dongxin once inscribed on a painting: "Where to cast people in the vast universe? Just like Gauguin's work "Where do we come from, who are we,where do we go?" in Tahiti, it is a question of self-reflection and self-reliance of the silent individual in time and space. It is a question of self-reflection and self-reliance of the silent individual in time and space, and a search for the logic and
narrative meaning of life.
The public's dependence on traditional forces persists, and contemporary ecology seems to have become too cumbersome by moving away from its original identity of spiritual values. It is true that the intersection of consciousness in any age is often obscure, but the point must be clear. It is embodied and demonstrated through the creation of art by those who possess the ability to metaphysically think and hypothesize. The practice of art never leaves the essence of diffusion,which is necessarily "outside the boundaries" of the unpredictable before generating a different kind of bewildering form.
▃
About the Artists
Wang Jieyin（1941, Shanghai, China)
In 1956, Wang Jieyin was admitted to the Middle School attached to the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Graduated from the Shanghai Fine Arts College in 1966, he taught at the Shanghai Fine Arts School in 1977 and then taught at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Shanghai in 1983. He furthered his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1986. He now lives and works in Shanghai.
Chen Yiming (1951, Shanghai, China)
In 1973, Chen Yiming created "Youth Reservoir", which was published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House as one of the "Wide Worlds" yearbook screens, and took part in the Shanghai and national yearbook propaganda exhibition.In 1979, he taught at the Fine Arts Department of the Shanghai Light Industry College. In 1981, he went to New York to study at the Art Students' League. He now lives and works in Shanghai.
Hu Youben (1961, Beijing, China)
From 1987 to 1989, Hu Youben studied at the Beijing Painting Academy, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2004, he was awarded the Academic Prize of Hubei Art Literature. In 2005, he was awarded the Silver Prize of the Düren Museum in Germany. His works have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in Bonn Germany, the Dunlop Museum in Germany, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Today Art Museum and other institutions. He now lives and works in Beijing.
Li Haifeng (1976, Henan, China)
Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Normal University in July 1991, Li Haifeng joined the School of Fashion and Art Design of Shanghai Donghua University in July of the same year as an art teacher. He is now the head of the Fine Arts Department, Associate Professor, Vice Chairman of the Art Education Committee of Shanghai Higher Education Society, Special Expert of Ningbo Art Museum, Special Expert of Suzhou Yan Wenliang Museum, Special Expert of Keqiao Fine Arts. He went to the National Academy of Fine Arts of Dijon, France for further study in 2003, and is now lives and works in Shanghai.
Zheng Mengmei (1972, Hubei, China)
She graduated from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts as an undergraduate and graduate student, and now lives and works in Beijing.
Zhang Keke (1988, Fujian, China)
He received his Bachelor's Degree in Sculpture from the College of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University in 2009. In 2012,he attained his Bachelor's Degree in National Plastic Arts from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers, France.Then in 2015, he got his Master's Degree in National Superior Plastic Arts from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers, France.
Kuai Lianhui (1974, Jiangsu, China)
Kuai Lianhui is master of Oil Painting, Ph.D. in History of Foreign Art. In 2010, she joined in Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Art as a special talent. In 2020, she was named Jiangsu Province, the fifth phase of the "333 high-level talent cultivation project of young academic and technical leaders", is now the national level of art teacher.
Nan Fang (1976, Hebei, China)
He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University in 1999 and received his master's degree in 2006.He is now working in the Oil Painting Department of the College of Fine Arts and Design of Hebei Normal University as an associate professor and a researcher of the National Academy of Painting of China. His works have been collected by many art museums and private organizations at home and abroad, such as the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum and Today Art Museum.
Gui Nie Team
The Gui Nie Team was founded by Wen Guan and Yi Yi in 2023. Their works are in-depth explorations of traditional craftsmanship, human culture and natural physical sciences in the form of solid sculpture art, paper media art, easel painting, public art, and earth art, etc. They use the traditional high quality Xuan paper pulp and tire coloring to paint Buddha statues and lacquer technology, combined with the creation of contemporary material science and technology and new technical materials.
▃
Gallery
