Ouyang Chun
02 Mar - 12 Jun 2011
OUYANG CHUN
Painting The King
2 March to 12 June 2011
Ouyang Chun - Painting The King is the first institutional one-man show to present the artist, who was born in Beijing in 1974, outside of China. His cycle King, consisting of thirty paintings, some of which are more than five metres long, relates episodes from the life of a king in a breathtakingly painterly diversity, telling about his victories and defeats, about love and death. The pictures, which are partly crowded with figures and rendered in minute detail and partly feature an expressive and impasto brushwork, amalgamate history and fiction, as well as the search for beauty and the description of moral failure. In adapting the Western language of painting, the artist has created new images for motifs rooted in the Chinese tradition in which the past and the present, East and West, and narration and abstraction are caused to merge. The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Me Collectors Room Berlin, where it will be on display between 2 October 2010 and 9 January 2011.
Painting The King
2 March to 12 June 2011
Ouyang Chun - Painting The King is the first institutional one-man show to present the artist, who was born in Beijing in 1974, outside of China. His cycle King, consisting of thirty paintings, some of which are more than five metres long, relates episodes from the life of a king in a breathtakingly painterly diversity, telling about his victories and defeats, about love and death. The pictures, which are partly crowded with figures and rendered in minute detail and partly feature an expressive and impasto brushwork, amalgamate history and fiction, as well as the search for beauty and the description of moral failure. In adapting the Western language of painting, the artist has created new images for motifs rooted in the Chinese tradition in which the past and the present, East and West, and narration and abstraction are caused to merge. The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Me Collectors Room Berlin, where it will be on display between 2 October 2010 and 9 January 2011.