Gu Xiong
Gu Xiong was born 1953 BirthChongqing, Sichuan, China.
Lives and works in HomeVancouver, Canada.
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Vancouver-based artist Gu Xiong spent the spring and summer of 2006 taking photographs and shooting video from boats on Winnipeg’s Red River, the Qingxi River near Chongqing in China, and the Rhine in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands…
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"My installation attempts to comment on the shaking and shrinking of Chinese agriculture under globalization. During the Cultural Revolution, I was sent to a rural village as a labourer along with millions of other youth. The state of the village in my own past will be juxtaposed with the conditions of China in the present, flooded with images of globalization…"
All cultures are complex, of course, but the one into which you are born is the one you come to understand most profoundly. Thus, this influence is what finds its way into the work of an artist, and I believe it is expressed almost instinctively…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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