#LiXiaofei is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practices include video, photography, sculpture, painting, and installation. His photography “My Locker-01” comes from one of his long-term project “Assembly Line Project” initiated in 2010 for which he has visited over 280 factories all around the world. He positions himself as a calm observer and records the daily tasks of factory works, leaving the audience to contemplate the relation between producers, products, and producing systems. His video work “I Am the People_2” consolidates interviews made by the artist in the past 10 years of people from all walks of life. With exquisitely orchestrated music, the viewer is able to probe into the life of the collective as well as the individual._“Alienation?” - a Group Exhibition of 8 Chinese Contemporary Artists Residing in New York is currently on view at Eli Klein Gallery and will run through February 18, 2021.
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Li Xiaofei, Trailer for "I Am the People_2,” 2020. Single channel color video with sound, 1 minute excerpt (full trailer 2 min 46 sec). Courtesy of artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Li Xiaofei.
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#Repost #YeFuna @oyester
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check out a new group show #Hello，Future ! Where are we？with my work #subspecies #30hatsuneMiku
#Repost @depaulartmuseum
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“By making myself invisible, I try to explore the contradictory and often inter-canceling relationship between our civilization and its development.” Chinese performance artist Liu Bolin (@LiuBolin) began his ongoing series, Hiding in the City, in 2005 after the Chinese government destroyed the village where his studio was located in order to make space for construction projects related to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. In this series, Bolin aims to draw attention to social and political issues by disappearing into his surroundings.
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For his work on view in The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, the artist stands in front of a pile of coal, covered in coal dust, to protest Chinese practices in coal production and highlight the government’s disregard for human life and environmental safety. Bolin’s print is part of the “Raw Material” section of the exhibition which explores the depletion of Earth’s natural resources due to large-scale mining, fracking, and extraction.
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Learn more about Bolin’s series and artistic practice in this TED Talk (@ted) and continue to follow along our virtual tour of The World to Come every day through May 1. Follow the link in our profile for the full video!
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Time lapse view of Li Hongbo’s “Bloom”
As part of the 22nd edition of Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Maraya Art Centre presents Bloom by Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo The exhibition is curated by the Dubai-based curator Jolaine Frizzell, and acts as the artist’s first solo in the Gulf region. “Bloom” will be on view through February 22, 2020.
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#Repost @genxue #GengXue
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The Name of Gold （Trailer)
GengXue 2019 Venice biennale China pavilion
Clay-figure films, multi-screen image and field installation
In the dual-screen video, characters created with clay forge ahead in the black-and-white world. Presented at the beginning of the video, black and white embodies a world that is both cruel and humorous, real and illusory, secular and sacred.
Characters in the storyline are made of clay, whose texture echoes the rough persona, going through traumas, unavoidable difficulties and tribulations, set against the context of numerous problems people have to face. The clay figures are collectively creating a monolith, so huge as to be beyond vision, which is golden inside, emitting the light, color and sound of calling and temptation. People work for it and even offer part of themselves or others as sacrifice, yet the giant in turn continuously devours the assiduous humans. An electronic clock is running backward at full speed, flickering between "mud and meat". The film still leaves some space for interpretation, for instance, is the giant a Babel Tower? As time flows back at its will, is it a symbol of the past like a dreamy illusion? Is the film a reflection on collective human behavior, or a fable of humanlife, sickness and death?
Accompanying the video projection are some sculptural installations, embedded with screens and scattered on the ground, within which figures of the golden world are tumbling, as if placed in a golden “umbilical cord”. The viewers look down as if peeping into the well of life, so full of capricious experience that it strengthens people’s perception of fate.
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Con questa performance creata appositamente per il Mudec, Liu Bolin racconta la sua arte in prima persona. L'ispirazione? Le opere della nostra Collezione Permanente. Dal 15 maggio la mostra "Visible Invisible" ti aspetta a Mudec Photo! Link in bio!
Li Liao's work is included in “EPISODE II: Towards Autonomy,” curated by Hu Hanru and Xi Bei at Times Art Center Berlin, on view until February 23, 2019.
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The goal of this three-part exhibition is to introduce international audiences to the contemporary art production from the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a creative hub for art and international exchange. The PRD is a region of China with distinct cultural characteristics and traditions that have been influenced and interwoven with popular culture and exchanges between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. The rapid experimentation in video art across PRD has been greatly attributed to Hong Kong’s pop culture, film, television, and music concerning visual culture.
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Video (clip): Li Liao, "Spring Breeze," 2011. 2 hours 37 minutes 37 seconds.
SHEN FAN: Works in Abstraction, 1992 - 2017 at Eli Klein Gallery
Artist Cai Dongdong channeling his times at the Beijing Film Academy with this mini video showing his work “The Photographer II.” Cai's solo show "Photography Autocracy" on view through January 6, 2018 at Klein Sun Gallery.
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Image: Cai Dongdong, “The Photographer II,” 2015. Handmade color photo, photographic lens in artist's frame, 19 1/2 x 25 3/16 x 3 9/16 inches (49.5 × 64 × 9 cm) © Cai Dongdong
Lí Wei: "A Block of Cake" on view at Klein Sun Gallery. See the work in the current exhibition, "Cellar and Garret" through September 2nd.
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Featured trailer: Lí Wei, "A Block of Cake" (2010) Performance, installation and video. Installation: variable dimensions. Video duration: 15 minutes, looping.
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Timelapse of "Irons for the Ages, Flowers for the Day"
Li Hongbo's solo exhibition "Irons for the Ages, Flowers for the Day" at SCAD Museum of Art required a unique installation process - unfolding paper guns to reveal colourful sculptures. See the timelapse of the install below. The show runs through January, 2016.
Check out this video of Shen Shaomin's work featured in group exhibition, 'Open Sea,' at Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France:
Join us tonight from 6-8pm, for the opening reception of "simple life is interesting!" - curated by Janet Fong.
Our Assistant Director Amy Purssey demonstrating Li Hongbo's "David" sculpture at #artmiami
"I Want to Know What Infinity Is", Shen Shaomin, 2011-12 on show at Art Miami. Join us for the Opening Night VIP Preview tonight from 5:30pm-10pm, booth number B8.
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'I Sleep On Top of Myself (Cat)' 2012 by Shen Shaomin. This hyperrealistic sculpture is truly mesmerizing, illustrating the potential and metaphorical consequences of an over-developed world.
