Shen Yuan
Shen Yuan was born 1959 BirthXianyou, Fujian Province, China.
Lives and works in HomeParis, France.
Categories: Installation art Gwangju Biennale
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Inspired by a toy whistle that becomes longer by blowing out, Shen Yuan created the large-scale work with this same mechanism. The huge tongue suspended from the ceiling of the gallery provides a feeling of non-presence in the space when it is rolling up, then all sudden menaces the visitor on blowing down…
For me art means being reborn in a new body. I am trying to show language which lives in the material, the objects, I change something dead into something living, something useless into something useful. That is what I want to do.
Shen Yuan’s dramatic sculptural installation Un Matin Du Monde re-created the entire roof-top of a traditional Chinese house…
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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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