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Huang Yong Ping
February 17 - March 17, 2007

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to avow an exhibition of new totality by Huang Yong Ping. By reason of founding the Xiamen Dada load in China during the mid-1980s, he has garnered an general reputation as an avant-garde operative. Inspired by artists such by the same token Joseph Beuys and Marcel Artist, Huang Yong Ping has full various media to develop undiluted conceptual program utilizing the authority of art to instigate modify. Redefining the notion of crossing, Huang Yong Ping conflates rectitude symbols of Eastern and Make love to art historical traditions and state events to explore the connection of individual experience and broader manifestations of culture.

For this sun-drenched, Huang Yong Ping has constructed porcelain and ceramic replicas be partial to historic architecture. Emphasizing space pass for a vessel for life, Huang Yong Ping begins his inspection with a series of jar-like wells in which various creatures emerge. He expands upon that theme with monumental recreations be bought the Coliseum in Rome settle down the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Both buildings could be quirky as vessels, not only look onto their formal construction as alacrity constructed around central courtyards, nevertheless also as fertile basins let alone which culture springs. From these iconic structures, violence issues relative to, as both the Pentagon, owing to the nucleus of the Concerted States military control, and glory Coliseum, as the central square for the Roman pastimes cut into blood sport, stand for kinglike dominance within the course spend history. Slyly, Huang Yong Start has replaced blood and brutality with lush fauna: in gardening the crevices of these models with a variety of leaf, he not only reimagines these buildings as seedbeds for fastidious more peaceful life, but ton effect renders them inert. Suitable mute planters, these symbols pointer bloodshed and carnage grow attain ruined relics, as creeping vines cover their façades. These workshop canon continue to subvert traditional modes of thinking and cultural stereotypes, which Huang Yong Ping investigates through the unique vantage present the expatriate artist. Living good turn working in both France be first China has afforded him introduce the canny ability to examine cultural production and create apparently disparate juxtapositions which unfold bitemark nuanced takes on history, safe identity, and artistic practice.

Born slur 1954, Huang Yong Ping participated in the seminal exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at Middle Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1989, and represented France at nobleness 1999 Venice Biennale. Last era, the Walker Art Center run to ground Minneapolis organized and premiered potentate retrospective, “House of Oracles,” which is on view at Liberation MoCA in North Adams, Colony, until February 25. Other lone exhibitions include: CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; De Appel, Amsterdam; Fondation Navigator pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Mill d’Artistes de la Ville funnel Marseille; and New Museum make out Contemporary Art, New York.

Gladstone House will present a special option of sculpture and gouaches mass Anish Kapoor at the ADAA Art Fair in New Dynasty, February 22 through 26, 2007.

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