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『New Limited Edition』
“ONE DAY IN 2004” “SANJIE”is a composite art work created with three methods - oil painting, photograph, and video. The subject is the same: a young Chinese girl, wearing red scarf (symbol of a member of Young Pioneer Group), playing the thirteen figures of the Last Supper. It took me nearly a year to complete the work, but the deliberation process took years before that. The oil painting was completed the first. During the Chinese new year of 2003, I took quite a lot of pictures and stayed at home doing the painting. When the painting was done, SARS had come an epidemic. Ignoring the warnings, I went out frequently and finally completed the photograph and video part of the production in September 2003. Red scarf, white shirt, they signify the period from the 1950s all the way to 1970s. Indeed, the symbols remain powerful to this day.
To me, red scarf represents a period in my memory, a mark of belonging to a certain generation, the desire to gain honor, the exciting and yet unsettling sentiment of being urged on by the martyrs who created the People’s Republic, and even more so, the doubt and quest to identify the relationship between individual and group. The white shirt was always so white, white even in dreams, and yet it also created the pressure that was not exactly so white and pure. The color of history is fading, people age, memory becomes vague and unreliable. In the Last Supper, people always ask which one is Judas. I believe that Judas is each and everyone of us. As I grow older, I know more clearly that people can be naïve and simple as they can be, and as complicated as they can be.
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At the end of 2009, the artist Ling Jian returned to Beijing from Germany, holding exhibitions of his new works that brought him back into the focus of the Chinese contemporary art world. The portraits, representative of his work, act as metaphors for contemporary Chinese material culture and awareness of consumerist development. UCCA Art Store is now launching a new limited edition based on the Ling Jian’s year 2007 oil painting “Hero No.2”. “They are open and self-confident. They have some sorrow appearance in their looks and eyes, that’s a kind of feeling between expression and secret, which makes them seem to have experienced everything. It’s unexplainable.”(Linjian)
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Art is Just a Click Away
On the UCCA website, you will find: Limited Edition works from over 30 Chinese contemporary artists, China Design-brand products from more than 40 innovative designers, and over 700 other quality items and gifts. Featured artists include Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Xiaodong, Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun, Xie Dong, Liu Feng, Zhang Xiaochuan, Zhang Da… and many, many more! It’s all online at http://www.uccastore.com.
Today, UCCASTORE is re-launching its official website http://www.uccastore.com. The new site features UCCASTORE’s exclusive Limited Edition works from over 30 Chinese contemporary artists, China Design-brand products from more than 40 designers, and over 700 other quality items and gifts. UCCA is the first art center in Beijing to offer a convenient, full-service website with online shopping, billing and shipping. From today until June 30, 2010, visitors to the site can sign up for an online membership and receive a text message informing them of their free gift, which can be picked up at the UCCASTORE in 798 Art District. (Offer valid while supplies last.) UCCASTORE website: An online platform Taking the 200-square-meter UCCASTORE into cyberspace was the next logical step after the store’s grand re-opening in November of 2009. The website transcends the physical limitations of a brick-and-mortar store, offers more convenient service and expands UCCASTORE’s key concepts – “Art, Design, Original, Fresh” – to a broader community. In cooperation with UCCA’s domestic and international partners, the website will help to promote Chinese contemporary art and original Chinese design worldwide. Collectors and art lovers will benefit from up-to-the-minute access and the ability to browse and purchase their favorite art and design products without leaving home. UCCASTORE website: Access to over 700 works of Chinese contemporary art and design In addition to improved service, the UCCASTORE website has a brand new look. Like the store itself, the website features a clean, modern, fashionable design. Products and merchandise are divided into 8 categories – “Limited Edition”, “Home Accessories, Furniture and Lighting”, “Clothing”, “Personal Accessories, Shoes and Hats”, “Jewelry”, “Stationery”, “Publications, Books and CDs” , and “Toys”– enabling users to quickly search the product catalogue and find the items they are looking for. New product launches, art fairs, sales and promotions will be announced first on the website. By signing up for an online membership, you will have access to the latest news about Chinese artists and designers, and be among the first to know about up-and-coming new talent. As both cultural platform and concept store, the UCCASTORE website offers a unique attitude and a selection of the finest in contemporary art, design, photography, architecture, independent film and music.
『New Limited Edition』 Yang Fudong’s work is characterized by incorporating multiple visual senses and emotional effects, juxtaposing modern life experiences and ancient legends and transforming them into visual language. These familiar contexts and characters express the anxiety and wandering of the artist’s generation, becoming a microcosm of culture and values for this social background. Using classic film aesthetics and techniques, the artist creates extreme characters and environments. From An Estranged Paradise to No Snow on the Broken Bridge and from East of Que Village to Dawn Mist, the artist is a visual recorder of literature, giving each plot a unique interpretation. Ms. Huang at M last night depicts a dinner party at a restaurant where wine flows free. These scenes, seeming to come from old fashion Shanghai, are betrayed by their crisp modernity, like images taken from film stills. The breaks in the plot bring unlimited space for reverie to the films’ striking visuals. It is these unknown and untouched states that the artist consistently pursues. This collaboration between UCCAStore and Yang Fudong will bring a new Limited Edition photograph to fans of Chinese contemporary art and art collectors. Known for his photographs and films, Yang Fudong has been active in a number of art exhibitions in China and abroad since the late 1990s. He has participated in many highly regarded art shows, including the 40th Art Basel Art Fair and the 52th Venice Biennale. In early 2010, in collaboration with internationally renowned luxury brand Prada, the artist shot the black and white film The First Spring. Dawn Mist, the artist`s newest work, is currently on exhibit in Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China`s New Generation Artists at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing. This work was also recently exhibited at Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2009.
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