Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Gao Weigang, Twin Peaks, 2012, Oil on Canvas, 63.5×71cm
Gao Weigang, You and Me (detail), 2009, Installation
Gao Weigang, You and Me, 2009, Installation
Gao Weigang, Superstition, 2012, Installation
Gao Weigang, Superstition (detail), 2012, InstallationGao Weiigang’s susceptibility for art language is always shown as his application of two cold materials: marble and metal. He extends his catholic tastes to many media capable of carrying his ambiguous and blurry conceptualism, such as painting and installation. In Superstition, the installation with the same name as the exhibition, the artist presents a fake archeological excavation site to display some geometric models that are meant for the basic study of plastic arts. Behind their weird weathering traces and the deliberately-produced color of history, it is impossible not to question the aesthetic standards we have accepted and firmly believed. In two other pictures painted from life, the artist even used an ambiguous white color to mock the difference and trivial details of those rules.
Gao Weigang was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1976. He currently lives in Beijing. In 2011, he won the award "The Future of Art" of Art HK.
| LIGHT PAVILION PROJECT |
“Light pavilion” is located located on the second floor of Taikang Space. As a newly found project space, “Light pavilion” focuses on supporting artists’ to realize their grand yet difficult project proposals and presenting their most recent creative experiments, with which to provide a platform for new voices among contemporary Chinese artists and their experimentations. Meanwhile, metaphorically refers to those who are exposed under daylight and their experiences in tumultuous times.
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