Altered State Deciphering Urban in the Art of Chen Xuanrong and Huang Yulong
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Contradistinct State: Deciphering Urban in the Art of Chen Xuanrong and Huang Yulong
- SHANGHAI, China
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- October 19, 2018
The exhibition Altered Land: Deciphering Urban in the Art of Chen Xuanrong and Huang Yulong echoes the atmosphere of urbanity anywhere, only it also forges an entirely unique manner of conceptualizing the new urban individuality in China. 2 artists with almost a 10-twelvemonth gap in age departure create works influenced past hip-hop civilisation, or what we interchangeably call street culture. Chen Xuanrong's graffiti-like works rendered in acrylic and stretched across big canvases provide the setting of the urban realm, while Huang Yulong's 'hoodie character ', dressed in bronze or stainless nevertheless, inhabits the scenes portrayed past Chen Xuanrong.
With its uncompromised and in your confront mental attitude hip-hop has swamped the minds of urban youth everywhere, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or age. Hip-hop owes its beginning to a item time and place, but since it has traveled across the oceans its state has been inevitably altered. Nowadays, the hip-hop movement owes its original and authentic character to the place information technology is adept and lived. The central to its success and acceptance has e'er been and e'er volition be most telling the story of one's own: where you lot come from and who you really are.
Huang Yulong's enthusiasm for hip-hop has been driving his artistic career for almost a decade. Fascinated with its free, passionate and rebellious mental attitude, he uses his work as a aqueduct to limited the magnitude of emotion that takes over him when he listens to rap or dances to hip-hop music.
The matter that started off equally an infatuation with something strikingly different and seductively foreign during the teenage years turned into a life-long delivery, a state of being, and merely a way of life. Nevertheless, with his knowledge and outlook being largely shaped by Chinese culture, he taps into his own tradition and heritage to enrich his work every bit an artist. Yulong takes the conventions, philosophies, and ideologies of east and west, pulverizes their construction and logic to brand an indistinguishable new mass that is itself a new piece of work of art and a new cultural and social paradigm.
For Chen Xuanrong the affair with street fine art, or to be more precise with the visual element of information technology - graffiti, has ironically started when he set off on a trip to the east side of the Usa to curiosity at rich collections of Fine Fine art masterpieces in the museums. A real feast for the optics, nevertheless, was discovered outside of the museums while walking the streets of big cities or commuting by train. Since then he found himself tagging on the streets, simply also implementing the visual elements of graffiti in the works that he has created indoors. Finally, 'collecting' most visually compelling graffiti pieces in his sketchbook and giving them a 2nd life in his works on canvass has turned into a part of his creative routine.
Chen'due south acrylic on canvas presented for the duo show incorporate the graffiti styles that he has collected during his travels alongside his own fashion of writing and stickers. They are depicted on the walls, doors and staircases, trams and abandoned houses, public bathrooms, everywhere where yous expect to come up beyond with the graffiti. Some works give you an impression of the wall that became a battlefield for a mode state of war between several graffiti artists. Chaotic renderings of vandals left in a bustle are layered over crisply outlined and elaborated graffiti. Pushy stencils of ads with phone numbers lurk through the hectic stains of paint.
The work past Xuanrong and Huang Yulong mirror the richness of identities, ideas, and attitudes that are so characteristic of contemporary urbanity. In their duo exhibition Altered State: Deciphering Urban in the Art of Chen Xuanrong and Huang Yulong the artists create new settings for new icons of their generations that are more up-to-date with the period of defoliation and uncertainty, variety and integration.
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The Art+ Shanghai Gallery was founded in October 2007 in the Shanghai's famous Bund area, Art+ Shanghai Gallery is a dynamic art space dedicated to the promotion and development of Chinese contemporary fine art.
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