Automatic Writing-Automatic Reading

2020.9.5-2020.10.31

Opening: 2020.9.5 15:00

Artist: Duan Jianyu

Curator: Peter Pashish

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-17:00

Address: Chi She 1. No.555 -4, Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai

For a European curator, looking at Duan Jianyu's paintings has always raised questions about the possibility of understanding. Her paintings are enigmatic in themselves. But this is only one aspect. On the other hand, they communicate with various viewers in various ways and ask: in today's world of global imagery, how much meaning can be transmitted between images of different cultures? Today's Chinese painting is between various categories of painting and visual culture, including various appropriations of Chinese tradition, Western and modernist traditions, and the latest Eastern paradigm. Today, the visual world is like a broken mirror, and painting makes it even more incredible. Watching Duan Jianyu's paintings reminds me of my compatriot Paul. Celan's poems, both equally full of puzzles. Celan has successfully transformed special events and personal encounters into a universal poetic flavor. Therefore, we should conduct such an experiment: to interpret the images and metaphors in front of us in another context is like to interpret this puzzle with another puzzle.

Duan Jianyu was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in 1970. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 and is currently teaching in the Fine Arts Department of South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Duan Jianyu won the 2010 Best Artist of the Year Award of the Chinese Contemporary Artist Award (CCAA). Her recent solo exhibitions include: "Kill, Kill, Kill Matt", Mirror Garden, Guangzhou, 2016, "Duan Jianyu, Hu Xiaoyuan Double Solo Exhibition", Shanghai Bund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2013. Recent international group exhibitions and biennials she has participated in include: Clap the Palm with One Hand, Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2018; "The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial", Queensland Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2015; "CCAA15 Fifteen Years of Chinese Contemporary Art", Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2014, etc.

Thank you very much Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, Shanghai Chi She Space, Artist

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