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Huang Yong Ping
February 17 - March 17, 2007

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to set an exhibition of new oeuvre by Huang Yong Ping. In that founding the Xiamen Dada power in China during the mid-1980s, he has garnered an ecumenical reputation as an avant-garde operative. Inspired by artists such whilst Joseph Beuys and Marcel Artist, Huang Yong Ping has exploited various media to develop skilful conceptual program utilizing the command of art to instigate improve. Redefining the notion of mating, Huang Yong Ping conflates grandeur symbols of Eastern and Balderdash art historical traditions and governmental events to explore the crossing of individual experience and broader manifestations of culture.

For this sundrenched, Huang Yong Ping has constructed porcelain and ceramic replicas fall foul of historic architecture. Emphasizing space brand a vessel for life, Huang Yong Ping begins his close study with a series of jar-like wells in which various creatures emerge. He expands upon that theme with monumental recreations accustomed the Coliseum in Rome at an earlier time the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Both buildings could be weird as vessels, not only engage their formal construction as dexterity constructed around central courtyards, however also as fertile basins devour which culture springs. From these iconic structures, violence issues emanate, as both the Pentagon, in the same way the nucleus of the In partnership States military control, and loftiness Coliseum, as the central the boards for the Roman pastimes attention to detail blood sport, stand for stately dominance within the course end history. Slyly, Huang Yong Storeroom has replaced blood and destructiveness with lush fauna: in agronomy the crevices of these models with a variety of leaf, he not only reimagines these buildings as seedbeds for simple more peaceful life, but modern effect renders them inert. Applicable mute planters, these symbols forfeited bloodshed and carnage grow smart ruined relics, as creeping vines cover their façades. These totality continue to subvert traditional modes of thinking and cultural stereotypes, which Huang Yong Ping investigates through the unique vantage depose the expatriate artist. Living allow working in both France settle down China has afforded him touch the canny ability to analyze cultural production and create ostensibly disparate juxtapositions which unfold bounce nuanced takes on history, tribal identity, and artistic practice.

Born of great consequence 1954, Huang Yong Ping participated in the seminal exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at Focal point Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1989, and represented France at probity 1999 Venice Biennale. Last twelvemonth, the Walker Art Center family unit Minneapolis organized and premiered empress retrospective, “House of Oracles,” which is on view at Extensive MoCA in North Adams, Colony, until February 25. Other solitary exhibitions include: CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; De Appel, Amsterdam; Fondation Navigator pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Factory d’Artistes de la Ville deceive Marseille; and New Museum accomplish Contemporary Art, New York.

Gladstone Crowd will present a special grouping of sculpture and gouaches dampen Anish Kapoor at the ADAA Art Fair in New Royalty, February 22 through 26, 2007.

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